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Phil and Lisa led an assembly at Ladies College on the theme ‘Respect for life’. They reflected on events that have happened over the last few years where little respect had been shown as well as giving students the opportunity to pause and reflect and think about the terrible events happening in Ukraine right now. Drawing on the teaching of Jesus about ‘loving your neighbour as you love yourself’ (Matthew 22:39) they encouraged the students to think about the importance of being kind to others. They explained that Jesus went a step further to say ‘love your enemies’ (Matthew 5:44) yes, love those people who you might struggle with or find annoying and challenged the students to think about building bridges with people who they don’t see eye to eye with. The assembly was well received by the schools with teachers offering praise for the message they had given. 
 
The team have also been busy delivering lessons at Blanchelande College on ‘The Problem of Evil and Suffering’ to Year 7 students. The lesson explores ‘the different types of evil in the world’ and asks the questions ‘Where does evil come from?’ and ‘What does the Bible have to say about how to respond to evil?’. We end the session by looking at some Christian charities and what they are doing to combat evil and suffering in our world. The students have engaged well with the lessons and asked some interesting questions. 
 
In the session we look at the importance of freewill and how God didn’t create robots. We do a quiz to see if they can name some famous robots from movies, look at the pictures below, how many robots can you name?
 
 

Behind the scenes the team are also working on a project – another virtual assembly! We thought it would be beneficial to have a backup assembly that can be sent out to primary schools if for some reason we are unable to visit. This one includes some of our loved puppets acting out the story of Esther. Victoria is working hard using her creative talents to put the video together. 

Finally the team went along to another Godly Play session held by Eleanor at St Peter’s Church. This time the story was Ruth and it was great to see another effective way to tell the story in a different, visual way. We are hoping to include this method more in our lessons in primary schools. 


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This week sees the final lessons of some of our OT Mini courses at Forest and La Houguette. Feedback has been great from both teachers and children, commenting on the amount learnt in a few weeks and the fun, engaging way the lessons were taught. We’re always sad to leave a class we’ve got to know and spent time with but very pleased to have completed another course! With each course we improve our delivery, knowledge and resources.

Lisa and Phil along with Tom Saddington led some deep lessons on War this week at Blanchlande Year 11s. Both groups engaged well and had some interesting discussions. The lessons looks into the Christian views on War and their responses. Included in the lesson is a look into the film Hacksaw Ridge and the true story of Desmond Doss as a conscientious objector. Very interesting!

In our secondary lunch clubs this term we are looking at Big Questions including:
        – Has Science disproved God?
        – Can we trust the Bible?
        – If there is a God why do people suffer?
        – There are so many religions which one do I choose?
We have used some interactive quizzes or fun light hearted activities to introduce these themes which then spark great conversations with the students. Below are some mind maps that have been produced in the discussions.

 

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With restrictions easing in schools, we are very pleased to be able to start our lunch clubs again this week! It’s great to see the students and catch up after Christmas. We love that we can provide a fun, safe place for them to hang out in secondary schools. BOLT clubs are starting this week and next at Vauvert, La Mare, Beechwood, St Martins, Forest, Notre Dame and Castel. We have spent some time revising the plans and decided to start a fun sticker collection for each pupil. Each week they will receive a sticker relating to the theme and by the end of the term they will be able to keep them to remind them of what they have learnt at BOLT! It’s been a fun, creative project! Here’s an example of some of the stickers.
 
Last week Lisa and Phil led PACE’s first in school virtual assembly. In a quiet hall with a camera in front of them they were beamed to all the students in their classrooms. It was quite a surreal experience as it was very strange not having students to interact with but it was great to be able to share with the whole school. The assembly theme was ‘when bad things happen to good people’. We explored the story of Joseph and how he had a lot of bad things happen to him but every time something bad happened he had a choice of how to respond and instead of choosing to be bitter he chose to become better. We concluded that we aren’t promised an easy life, there is a time for all things (Ecclesiastes 3) but as Christians we believe that God promises to be with us through all those times, he was there for Joseph and he can be with us now. Know that whatever you are going through you don’t have to go through it alone.
 
This term has also seen the return of ASDAN at Le Murier School. Phil and Lisa are really enjoying working with a group of Year 9 students to help them complete a module of their ASDAN qualification. They work with the students to help them prepare an assembly which they will deliver to Year 7 and 8. This time we have chosen the story of Jonah and the theme of “having a fresh start.” We explore how God gave Jonah a second chance and how in life we all need a fresh start sometimes. The students are engaging really well and are enjoying working out how to best tell the story and how to explain what we can learn from it. You can see in the picture below one of the props we are using to tell the story! 
 
 
 
 

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Happy New Year! We hope you had a great Christmas and New Year!

We’re back and excited for what 2022 will bring us. Each term we try to hold a Quiet Morning – a time for us as a team to receive teaching as we give out so much in our work. This time we headed to St Saviours and Sarah-Jane Allen hosted us in the lovely upper room of their Hall. SJ led us through the theme of choices and looking back at how God has been with us through difficult choices and how we can be encouraged that when things seem tough, He is always with us. One verse we read was Psalm 139:7-10:

“Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.”
 

Because of restrictions in schools, we are unable to restart our lunch clubs and assemblies at least for the time being. In response to this we have sent our primary schools our virtual assembly that we made during lockdown last year. This has been received well once again and we’re pleased that some of the schools are using it. If you would like to watch our assembly you can find it here!

We’re very pleased that we are able to go into some schools for lessons and OT Mini/ NT Mini. This week we have started new OT Mini courses at La Houguette with Nigel, Sarah-Jane and Eleanor, Castel with Phil and Forest with Sarah and Sian. Phil has also started an NT Mini course at Beechwood. We’re having to adapt a little but Week 1 has gone well so far!

Please pray for the schools, staff and students as they adjust to the new measures and get used to changes in their day to day activities. 

 

 

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We’re nearing the end of term but not slowing down! Our Christmas in a Box lessons have been going very well and the children and teachers are really enjoying it! We have delivered this lesson to Castel, La Houguette, Melrose, Forest and La Mare. Next week we will be visiting St Mary and St Michael’s and Blanchelande. We have loved delivering these lessons and have learnt many things along the way. Here are some photos from some of the sessions this week!

One of our lovely children wrote “Learn more at PACE!!!!!” on their takeaway box.

Not only have we been busy with this but we also hosted a Prayer Spaces at Blanchelande this week! We took the children on a journey through Advent and looked at each character from the Christmas story. We thought about forgiveness and letting go of things with Mary and Joseph, praying for those treated unfairly in the world like the Shepherds, how we can offer our gifts to help other people and knowing that God is always with us and guides us through life with the Wise Men and enjoying the excitement of waiting for Christmas! 

We would like to thank all of our supporters and volunteers and wish you all a very Happy Christmas! We thank God for all the amazing opportunities He has blessed us with over this past term and look forward to what’s to come in 2022!!

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As we all know, this is a busy time of year and for us it keeps getting busier! 
We’ve delivered our primary puppet assembly to Amherst, Forest, Acorn House, Beechwood, Notre Dame, Melrose, Vale and Vauvert. Unfortunately we’ve had a few cancelations due to the current situation but we hope we can get back into those schools soon. 

We’re also busy preparing for our upcoming Christmas in a Box lessons which we are very excited for. Since our training evening we have put together this video of our time together – we hope you like it!

We’ll be starting these lessons next week so please continue to pray for this new project! 

We have also delivered an assembly at Ladies College on ‘unlikely heroes’. We start with a quiz where they have to guess the unlikely hero from films, for example Wreck it Ralph and Frodo. People who get things wrong but end up being the hero.

We go on to look at stories from the modern day, sport and the Bible. We conclude that we all have the potential to do great things but we have to keep going and over come obstacles and be bold and courageous in your actions.

In our secondary lunch clubs we are enjoying exploring the Christmas story and having some good discussions with the students. We’re also enjoying playing lots of different games! 

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Christmas in a Box has officially begun!! We led our first session with a home schooling group and learnt a lot along the way. It was great fun and the children loved it. We used the time to see what worked best and what needed some work and it really helped us. We followed this with a second training evening on Monday. This was a more hands on session where our wonderful volunteers got to use the script and have a go at leading a box. We are now busy booking in our lessons and are very excited to use this in schools! Please do get in touch if you are interested in Christmas in a Box.

We are now also back into primary schools for our Christmas puppet assembly! In this one our puppet Fanta the elephant is about to try out for the part of Mary in her school nativity. She feels like she won’t get the part because she looks different from other children so she decides to try some new hairstyles! After realising these don’t help, she uses some change mixture that a Mad Scientist made her and ends up turning into a donkey, a mince pie and then another puppet. Using the shepherds and learning how they didn’t need to change themselves to be involved in God’s story, Fanta learns that she just needs to be herself! Does she get the part of Mary?

We’ve already presented this at La Rondin, Vauvert and La Houguette all who loved it! There’s plenty of laughter from the children but an important message for them. 

OT Mini courses are going well at Melrose and La Mare and Phil has started  two new back to back courses at Vale.

Finally this week we took La Mare’s Year 11 students to Trinity Church for our “Faith in Community” lesson. They got to tour the new offices of Guernsey Welfare and Caring for Ex-Offenders. Mary and Sue, who are involved in these charities, shared with the students about what they do to serve the local community.  An eye opening time for many who may not have known what else is done on the island by churches. 

Please continue to pray for the island’s schools, their students and teachers as we see a rise of cases during this winter season. We are hearing from schools of cases and so ask for prayers of protection over our team as we continue our work. 

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