family services

On the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month we have a Family Service, where all are welcome to join in our praise to the Lord.  Children and their families come and are involved in all aspects of the service, including: reading the prayers, reading the lessons, collecting the gifts (at Harvest and Lent), collecting other items at the Service of Remembrance and Advent and they also help to collect and put away the service and hymn books at the end of the service before enjoying a drink and cake or biscuits with the rest of our congregation family.

Below you will find a summary of some of our recent services, showing what we do and how we do it to make it interesting and FUN!

In January, April, July and October, the Family Service on the 4th Sunday of the month includes a simple service of Holy Communion

2019

OCTOBER

Second Sunday in the Month Family Service by Eleanor Chilvers.

The First Sunday in October is Magdalen Village Harvest Thanksgiving. Our report is by Eleanor Chilvers.

Today was our Thanksgiving Harvest Festival Family Service.

It was good to see so many people there today to help us celebrate this special time of the year together in word and song. There was forty-four of us and four dogs.

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Next we were entertained by a sketch involving Chris, Alan, Mum and Stevie. It involved trying to make Chris and Alan ‘Wake up’ and realise that everyone in some way should go out and harvest, whether that was harvesting a crop in the fields or whether that was to spread the Good News to the people. When we were trying to wake Chris and Alan up, we had to wave our hands and shout ‘Wake up’. At one point even the dogs joined in and tried to wake up Chris and Alan by barking!

Our homework this week was to bring a package or tin of food in to be given to the Wisbech foodbank. All the children took baskets round the church and collected up all the food everyone had kindly brought to church. We then placed it all on the table at the front so that everyone could see how much we had collected. There was over 130 items of food.  

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Imogen and I helped collect the money for the collection as they sang ‘To Thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise’, then after our dismissal we sang our last hymn for today ‘Come ye thankful people come’.

Stevie than gave us our blessing which finished our service for today.

Stevie is going to do something very brave in order to help raise money to renovate our stain glass windows. She is going to have all her hair shaved off! We should all sponsor her to do this – Mum said that she’d better get busy and knit her a hat to wear over the winter time!

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Second Sunday in the Month Family Service by Eleanor Chilvers.

This week we had Stevie to lead our service and Cate on the Organ. We started by singing our first hymn ‘Great is thy Faithfulness’ whilst Stevie, Alan and Chris processed down the Aisle.

Stevie then led us through our confession and Absolution and then we sang ‘Amazing Grace’.

Our first reading was in the form of a play. It started out with Matthew and Jesus walking to Jerusalem. Matthew kept asking if they were ‘there yet’ and he also wanted to use the bathroom. On his return he was shocked to find out that Jesus was being approached by lepers. This disease was and still can be very infectious and Matthew did not want Jesus to catch it. Jesus was unafraid though and sent them off to their priest and on the way, they were made clean (in other words they were healed). Matthew thought that Jesus should be a bit more ‘flash’ when he was creating miracles, but Jesus was wiser and humbler than this, thank goodness.

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