"Leap For Joy" 21st July 2013

As the summer holidays had started (schools had more or less broken up) we did not have many.  Two actually, but we still had a great time together.

As our Minister was leading the service, we had an action song; "Do you have an appetite".  We joined in with the verse actions along with some the the congregation.  As for the chorus, it was just the Minister, me and the two young people.

However, without knowing it, the song fitted in well with our theme.

Luke 6: 23 talks about "leaping for joy" as our reward is greater in heaven.  To help the young people remember it, they jumped on a trampoline and recited the passage.

After a break for drinks and biscuits, we all started painting lots of people leaping for joy.

The results are below: -

"Holiday" as chosen by Pioneers

Bit of a tricky one this week, but one of the craft results summed up (for me) the session.

"Holiday" is derived from "holy day" before it became a general term of time off work or enjoying a change of venue.

The young people tried to match up four Jewish and four Christian "holy days" with not a lot of success.  Here is the list: -

Hanukkah	Jewish	Festival Of Lights
Passover	Jewish	Deliverance of Jews from Egypt
Shavuot	Jewish	Moses being given the Ten Commandments
Yom Kippur	Jewish	Day of Atonement
Ash Wednesday	Christian	The First Day of Lent
Good Friday	Christian	Crucifixion of Jesus
Lammas	Christian	First Fruits Celebration
Pentecost	Christian	The Coming of the Holy Spirit

An old tradition holiday was to send a postcard to friends, long before social websites were invented.  So the young people were asked to make a "holy day" post card or picture.

Sums up the session as to why we have holidays!