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Sunday 16th March 2025: God's promise to Abraham

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Sunday 16th March 2025: God's promise to Abraham

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Genesis 12 v1-3

God told Abraham that he would have more descendants than stars he could see in the sky! We made stars to symbolise God's promise to Abraham and the promises he makes to us.

God also said he would bless Abraham and his descendants so that all the families of the earth would be blessed.

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Luke 5: 1-11

Jesus borrows a fisherman called Simon Peter's boat, so he can teach a crowd of people who are standing on the shore. He then tells Simon Peter (who has been fishing all night with no luck) where in the lake to go fishing! Simon Peter catches so many fish, he has to call for help from his friends. Fishermen called James and John were with Simon Peter, to whom Jesus says '...from now on you will fish for people'.

We greeted each other, sang a song with actions, read this story from the Bible, and made a collage of boats and fish. We learned about the story from Jesus' life and how God provides.

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Luke 15: 11-24

Jesus tells a story of a son, who asks for his inheritance from his father, and wastes it in a foreign land, living recklessly. Famine strikes the land, and the son has nothing left. He is forced to work for a pig farmer and longs to eat the food he gives to the pigs; he is so hungry. He decides to return to his father and beg for forgiveness, not daring to be considered his son any more, but asking to be a servant in his father's household. However, as soon as his father sees him coming along the road from a distance, he runs to greet and hug him, and welcomes him home with celebrations!

We read the story and talked about mistakes, fairness, forgiveness and love. For our craft on Sunday we made pictures of a father's hug using cut-outs of our hands. The word we wrote was 'forgiveness'

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Having fun creating space for Jesus. The children made Jesus a beautiful temple in the Pray and Play Space 

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All Saints Luxembourg is a diverse, inclusive community with many different nationalities and languages represented. There is space for all, including the younger members of the congregation!

Children are invited to play, during services, in a special area of the church, called the 'pray and play' space, which has been designed for their needs. It includes a little table with colourful stools, toys, paper, pencils and reading books etc. Parents sit nearby and keep a watchful eye on what's happening.

Although it's not always silent, this generally unfolds happily without creating any disturbance during services.

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Aslan the lion was C.S. Lewis' famous symbolic character representing Jesus in his much loved children's novel 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'. Aslan sings the fictional world of Narnia into existence in the first novel of the series 'The Magician's Nephew'. In the Ainulindalë (Music of the Ainur) by Christian author J.R.R. Tolkien a choir of angels sing creation into existence.

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We learned that God is the beginning and the end. From Him we come and to Him we return.

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We studied the story of how Saul, persecuting Christians, was changed to be Paul by God. God turned an enemy into a friend. Paul was changed by God's love and God used the person we now know as St Paul to help create the early church.

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We made a Happy Easter banner to celebrate Jesus coming back to life after he had been killed on the cross. Jesus is alive for ever and we can share in that eternal life.

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Hope for the future: 'New Heaven and Earth' Revelation 21: 1-8

Our all-powerful creator God is making all things new ....

All the children were welcomed by name and we danced to music.

We sang a song about creation, with actions, and lit a candle, saying the Lord's prayer with actions. Then, we made the tree of hope in the picture.

At the end we shared the peace.

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Sunday 8th June 2025: learning about Pentecost

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Sunday 8th June 2025: learning about Pentecost

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We made crowns of flames of fire and learned how God gave his Holy Spirit to the first disciples and how we can also have the gift of his Holy Spirit.

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Sunday 6th July 2025: celebrating Jesus is Lord!

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Sunday 6th July 2025: celebrating Jesus is Lord!

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This lovely picture was shared with us by a member of junior church. In the picture Jesus stands on a sphere that could represent the world. The world is green and blue, and Jesus is wearing a crown and smiling with his hands raised in greeting, radiating warmth, love and stars. How wonderful.

It needs no words and the artist has labelled the figure of Jesus.

What talented, creative and generous young people we have!