This week we are in week 8 of our primary BOLT lunch clubs. We will be looking at the topic ‘Jesus died for us’. The children will be individually identifying something they are sorry about and we will be thinking about forgiveness. The memory verse challenge this week will be from John 3:16 ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life’.

The primary and secondary team are also continuing to prepare for new assemblies and prayer space events.

Hautes Capelles will be having their third Walk Through the Bible lesson this week.

We will also be doing our creation assembly at Blanchelande on Wednesday.

This week we have been continuing our creation assembly at Hautes Capelles, St Mary and St Michael, La Mare and La Houguette. We have now started week 7 of our BOLT lunchtime clubs. This week we are looking at the theme ‘Jesus came to do good’. This gives the children an overall picture of the work Jesus did during his time on Earth. They also have the opportunity to share with us what they know about Jesus. We have now tripled in number at our lunch club in Castel, which is fantastic! We would like to once again thank our volunteers who help lead these lunch clubs and the time and effort they regularly put into the clubs.

We have also been meeting to prepare for our upcoming secondary assembly, primary puppet assemblies and prayer space event which will be held near the end of term. Please pray for us in our planning and preparation.

Please also continue to pray for the Walk Through the Bible lessons as they begin session two.The secondary team will be teaching Creation to year 7s this week at Blanchelande. Please pray for great discussion and wisdom for the leaders in answering the students questions.

We are visiting Vale and Castel Primary Schools this week, continuing our Creation assemblies and starting a new course of Walk Through The Bible (OT Mini) at Hautes Capelles with Year 6.

Our primary school BOLT clubs are in Week 6 looking into ‘God in Three Parts’. There are some great discussions coming out of these sessions as well as a lot of fun!

We are also in St Sampson’s High School this week taking R.E. lessons. Our topic is the Christian views on evil and suffering. We are discussing the questions ‘where does evil come from?’ and ‘how should we to respond to suffering?’ The lessons have been going really well, the students are engaging in the activities and asking some good questions!

Please remember us in your prayers as we look at these topics, especially in light of recent events.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the PACE schools’ work team! 

If you’re interested in joining our team, have a look at the advertisement below and get in touch. We’d love to talk to you!

This week we are going to be continuing our assembly on Creation at Amherst, St Martins and Forest Primary schools. Above you can see Sarah and Chloe in action during an assembly last week.

We’re now going into week 5 in our BOLT clubs, focussing on how God hears and answers our prayers. We will be discussing how God might answer our prayers and why He might not always say yes straight away.

Last week in one of our BOLT clubs, we received some encouraging feedback from a teacher that was present. She fed back that one of the pupils who took part in the 1 to 1 challenge, normally finds it difficult to confidently complete an activity. However the teacher said that she felt proud that the child managed to complete the task easily. It was a great achievement for that child!

This week we have multiple lessons in La Mare High School and Blanchelande College on the subject, “Prejudice, Discrimination and Persecution”. Please pray that there will be some good discussion and conversation during these lessons.

Please continue to pray for the students that we interact with.

This week we are continuing our BOLT lunchtime clubs. We have more children attend each club now and we are currently on week 4. Each week we share a truth from the Bible. So far we have covered, God created the world, God loves us and God made us special. This week we are looking at ‘God has plans for us’ and what that actually means for the children. As well as playing games and doing activities based on this theme, we will be looking at the bible verse Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”

Please pray for our new assembly starting this week. We will be doing this assembly at Beechwood, Acorn House and Vauvert. The assembly is focusing on creation. We will be encouraging the children to look at creation as a gift from God and the importance of taking care of the world we live in. The assembly includes singing, illustrations, question and answer time and a video. We are hoping that all the students will enjoy this interactive assembly and learn an important lesson.

A big thank you to Spurgeon Baptist Church for giving us the opportunity to share about the work of PACE in local schools. We enjoyed being a part of your family service and providing areas for people to reflect, respond and pray. We had a prayer space focusing on Harvest. We reflected on Gods creation and everything He has provided us with and thought about people who are not as fortunate as us.

We would like to thank the church again for their dedication in supporting us.

This week we are having our regular lunch clubs and had an assembly yesterday at Le Rondin. We wrote a different assembly to suit the needs of the children at the school. We did our assembly on Creation. We taught them a creation song, encouraged them to explore objects from creation and read the creation story. Our theme was harvest and being thankful for God’s creation.

We would like to thank everyone for their prayers in regards to the number of children attending lunch clubs. We went to our first lunch club at Vauvert and were delighted to have 29 very enthusiastic children! Due to the large number of children we now run two lunch clubs at Vauvert at the beginning and end of lunch. Please continue to pray for more attendance in our other schools.

The secondary team have been doing assemblies in Ladies college and in Elizabeth College with the theme of gratitude and serving others. They are also running regular lunch clubs in La Mare de Carteret, Blanchelande, St Sampsons, Elizabeth College, Ladies College, Grammer and Les Beaucamps.

This week we have been continuing our assemblies in Amherst, Capelles, St Martins, Beechwood, St Mary and St Michael and Forest. The children have seemed to really enjoy these assemblies and are enthusiastic in audience participation and volunteering for acting roles.

We have started our BOLT lunchtime clubs this week. We are regularly doing these clubs in Blanchelande, Castel, La Mare, La Houguette and Vauvert for the first term. The club runs for 10 weeks with a party week to finish. The club include fun games and activities, a short talk and discussion. The clubs are fast paced and the children are very excited to win a prize if they attend four sessions. Please pray for more children to attend next weeks clubs as word of mouth spreads and we are able to advertise in our assemblies.

This is our first week back in schools for the new school year. We spent Monday morning practicing our new assembly and praying for the week ahead. We will be visiting a number of schools. We will be doing assemblies in Castel, La Houguette, Vale infants, Melrose primary and Vauvert. In our assembly we will be looking at the story of the Prodigal son. We will be encouraging children to think about a new start, not focusing on mistakes they might have made last year but using this new school year as a fresh start for new opportunities.

Phil Baskerville is currently away on a Walk through the Bible conference and will then be meeting with the RE inspire team. This is a very valuable resource we use for our lessons and Phil will have the opportunity for more training and a chance for observing lessons in action.

We are also looking forward to next week, when our BOLT lunchtime clubs are starting.