Assemblies

This assembly looks at the story of the rich young ruler who chose not to be with Jesus in eternity because he wouldn’t give up his wealth. Sometimes it is difficult to make the right decisions, but following Jesus is the best choice because life with Him would be as good as it can be.

This assembly aims to teach that God used Samson to save his people just as he said he would. Samson is a lot like Jesus: God’s ultimate saviour who died to deliver the world from sin.

This assembly looks at the question: how good is good enough and who do you have to be kind to. Through the parable of the good samaritan we learn that we need to be kind to everyone, even the people we don’t like, even the people who don’t like us.

In this assembly we learn that David beat Goliath because he trusted God, and God did everything to let David win. It teaches the children that God always wins. He did with David. He did with Jesus.

Based on the television talent show “X-Factor”, this assembly sees favourite Christmas characters compete to see who will be the X-mas Factor Christmas Superstar. Jesus puts the “X” into the Xmas Factor – he is the Son of God who makes us friends with God.

This assembly attempts to show to the children that religion is good, and not dangerous through the life of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of Shaftesbury.

This assembly helps children work out who Jesus is through one of his miracles. It also explains that Jesus was kind to feed all those people, exactly the same way as God is kind to us. And that we should always thank people who give us food.

This assembly looks at three surprising facts around the birth of Jesus:

1. A King who was born in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere.
2. A King who had a 700 year old message and a star to direct visitors to him.
3. A baby who wise man worshipped.

In this assembly Professor Potion tries to figure out the ingredients for the perfect Christmas, and he discoveres that Jesus is the one ingredient that makes Christmas go with a bang!

This assembly encourages children to be friends with people because of who they are and not because of what they look like. God doesn’t judge us on our looks, but looks at our hearts.