Pumpkin Carving Andy carves a very happy Pumpkin, and this pumpkin helps Andy B and Jo Jo tell an amazing story – of forgiveness and hope.
Jo prays a very special Pumpkin Prayer: Open my mind so I can learn about you (cut off the top) Take away all my sin and forgive me for the wrong things I do (clean out the inside) Open my eyes so Your love I will see (cut two eyes) I’m sorry for turning up my nose to all You’ve given me (cut a nose) Open my ears so Your word I will hear (cut two ears) Open my mouth to tell others You’re near (cut a mouth) Let You light shine in me so others can see (place a candle inside) My happy little pumpkin shows how much God loves me. Amen!
Jo B leads us through the Wordless Book – a timeless classic, Gospel Message which just uses colours to tell the story of the Christian Gospel Message.
Gospel Message (taken from our Something 4 Sunday)
God loves us. He made a beautiful world!
Throughout life ‘stuff’ gets in between us and people and between us and God. It got between God and Adam – sin entered the world.
The bad things we do get in the way of us having that beautiful relationship with God. It got in between Adam and God too.
But God already chose to give us a future when He sent His only son to die on a cross – the Resurrection – when Jesus literally took all the bad stuff that gets between us and God and got rid of it so we can have the beautiful relationship with God. Jesus – God’s son – died a human death,and defeated death three days later when He rose again.
In defeating death, He gave us hope of an eternal life with God, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
To know peace is to know God. Peace that isn’t dependant on our situations or successes.
To know God is to know Jesus.
If you want to know a peace which isn’t affected by Covid-19, or worries, or anxieties – you need, like I have,; like my family have – to have a relationship with Jesus; to say sorry, as I did (and do) for the bad stuff that gets between me and God.
With a right relationship with God I can know the beautiful peace and hope that comes, only, from a relationship with God.