How God speaks today

Today we had the last of the fifteen classes from St James's School and Riverside School who have joined us for this year's Schools Week at St James.

Pictured (above) is the last class, 3 Denmark from St James, with some of our intrepid team of helpers who have assisted us.

Each class has visited three 'stations' looking at three ways God speaks to us (through the Bible, Baptism, and Holy Communion). Each of our speakers have given their talks a total of 45 times, so they are pretty much ingrained on on our memories.

At each station the children made a craft activity to take home (above) and learnt about such things as the baptismal font, given by a local surgeon in the 1840s, and the Baptism Register in which all baptisms that take place in St James are recorded.

They have viewed a selection of old Bibles and modern Bibles, and seen the Scriptures in their original Hebrew and Greek languages:

And they have discovered how and why we celebrate Holy Communion:

A big thank you to everyone who has taken part to make Schools Week 2018 such a great success.