Christmas countdown continues 2

Am I winning?.....where will he put it?....where should I go next? Decisions..... decisions ...... decisions....
Rachel prettying up Auntie Lorraine! What a princess!


The movers and shakers of the Promiseland team !!!


Some impressive face painting!! Can he kick for goal now?

Auntie Heather had the job of teaching us the loooooooooooooooongest memory verse of the year. She brought along Bartholomew to help but he only got up to mischief until he snuggled up to Auntie Debbie and fell asleep.

Everyone sorted through the part of the verse they had been given.......

and eventually it all got put together in one long line. Now who can remember it? David taught us how to sing it afterwards which made it easier! Try singing it to your mum or dad.

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born

to us a son is given,

and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called

Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Imagine all those years before Jesus came......Isaiah wrote all about him!!!

These 3 brave Promiselanders got up and said the verse straight through!! WELL DONE!

We ended Promiseland by watching a video where people acted out the true Christmas story together. Maybe you could think you could do that at home with your family this Christmas so you remember that
JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON.

Christmas countdown continues.

Promiseland got underway again this Sunday with some serious gaming going on.....Winners and losers alike enjoying themselves.......

Elsewhere the even more serious sport of face painting was being played out in another corner of the hall....

Once the band got underway and everyone had warmed up ....Lourdes taught us a new song :-

Feliz Navidad

Feliz Navidad

Feliz NavidadProspero año y Felicidad

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas

From the bottom of my heart

She had help on the overhead by these 2 handsome guys!

Gillian gave us an action packed memory verse to learn.....can you remember all the actions? Here Tracie is trying her best to get to grips with the moves....
and the verse was....

Today in the town of David
A Saviour has been
born to you
He is Christ the King.
Luke 2 :11

Babak read a story of a little boy who gave away his gifts. Can you recall the story at all and tell it too your mum or dad?

REMEMBER!!

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!

Countdown to Christmas.

Lots of activity in the Promiseland room today, face painting, games, computer games, cards and door notice hangers to colour in and decorate.
One spectacular face painting of a spider in the middle of his web!!

We enjoyed singing with the Promiseland band some great songs. The favourite today was :-

Open the eyes of my heart Lord

Open the eyes of my heart

I want to see you I want to see you I want to see you (Repeat 4 times)

To see You high and lifted up

Shining in the light of Your glory

Pour out Your power and love

As we sing holy, holy, holy

Repeat verse 1 - 2 times Repeat verse2 - 3 times Holy, holy, holy Holy,holy, holy Holy, holy, holy I want to see you (Repeat 2 times) I want to see you

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Mehrnaz had the memory verse for us today.....we were given an envelope with lots of words in it and we had to put it together to get the verse. Lots of paper shuffling ensued.....
But eventually...........

.........eventually we were able to put them together to get........
THE VERSE FOR TODAY! YEAH!
Can you remember it ?

Time now to start reminding ourselves of the Christmas story. Today we heard again how the angel appeared to Mary, who became Jesus' mother, and later to Joseph who was engaged to Mary at the time. The angel said that not only would the baby be called Jesus but he would be given the name Emmanuel. Can you remember what that name means?? Yes! It means "God with us".
Detective Dragnet reminded us of some of the Christmas symbols and told us what they meant.
In small group time we saw what we could remember about the symbols and also heard the story of how the "candy cane" came to be. Can you tell your mum or dad today something about the story??