Today’s story involved 10 lepers and we started off with a ‘hopping on one leg and not touching one another’ game to get a glimpse of the difficulty of life for those with this disease. We looked at some pictures and talked about how those with leprosy were treated and how in Jesus’ time they […]

This week, Rocks and Topz looked at the story of Bartimaeus. Even though he was just one person in a huge crowd, Jesus saw him and helped him. They talked about how Jesus sees and knows all of us, too! They used paper plates to make happy/sad faces to show how Bartimaeus must have felt […]

After a fun game of swimming to the islands we heard the story of Jesus spending time alone with God and then miraculously walking on the water to his disciples. They were on the lake, at first terrified to see a figure coming towards them! Jesus called out, ‘take courage! It is me. Don’t be […]

We heard the story of another of the miracles Jesus performed. Despite his sorrow over the death of his cousin, John the Baptist, he still had compassion for the people following him. He healed their sick and later in the day when it was time to eat he took 2 small fish and 5 loaves […]

This week in Rocks and Topz the children had two stories for the price of one! They heard about how Jairus went to Jesus because his daughter was ill. On the way to help, Jesus healed a woman who’d been ill for 12 years. By the time he got to Jairus’s house, the little girl […]

This week in Rocks & Topz we started off by thinking about what makes a good friend. We drew round one of the children, then thought about stone of the things we can do to be a good friend to others. We then heard a story about four people who were very good friends to […]

Yesterday after a wine race game (no wine involved!), we chatted about weddings and the children gave ideas on what is needed and weddings they had been to. We then heard the story of Jesus performing his first miracle at a wedding. Turning water into wine! The children made some amazing pictures with a secret […]

After a game of ‘what’s the time Mr Snake’ we learnt about some of Saul’s (Paul) life story. We acted out how he changed from wanting to destroy Christians to meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus. How he was used to heal people and his first time in prison when God sent an earthquake […]

This week, the children started with a game, taking the Christians from Jerusalem out to lots of different towns and cities. They learned that the early church grew by people becoming Christians in one place (often Jerusalem at the beginning) then taking the message of Good News back to their own towns and villages. Of […]