As a group of churches, we have a weekly information sheet. This is published on our webpage on the 'Our Group of Churches' page: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/10959/page/88758/view/The Village magazine for Stoke St. Michael, Downhead and Leigh-on-Mendip, is also on the website under 'Village Connection Church Magazine'
A fun morning was had by all this morning, as Stokers heard the final part of Joseph's story. After helping Egypt prepare for famine, Joseph's brothers came to Egypt to beg for food. Joseph recognised them, but they didn't recognise him! He hid a golden cup in a bag of grain and accused his brother Benjamin of stealing it. The other brothers begged Joseph to spare Benjamin and take them instead. Joseph saw his brothers had changed, they recognised him. They said they were sorry for what they had done and Joseph forgave them.We played 'find the cup', 'Guess what's in the bag' and then had a lot of fun with our colourful parachute and many balloons!Stokers meets again on 18th January.
The Sunday Stokers had loads of fun at their Pyjama Party on Sunday morning, hearing all about the next part of Joseph's story. Thrown into prison, Joseph keeps praying to God for help and is able to interpret his fellow prisoners' dreams. This brings him to the attention of the Pharoah himself. When Joseph interprets his dream about 7 thin cows eating 7 fat cows - a prediction of 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine - the Pharoah puts him in charge of gathering food, making him his second-in-command: quite the meteoric rise from being sold into slavery!The children took part in a chopstick challenge to gather as much wheat (sweets!) as they could. Then they made some rather clever cows to represent the ones in Pharoah's dream. After a sing-song, they enjoyed a treat of hot chocolate, marshmallows and cream before heading to church...... in their pyjamas!Well done, Stokers! Next month: the final part of Joseph's story. Children are welcome to join us on Sunday 16th November to find out what happens next to Joseph!
