A Celebration
The All Age Service on Sunday 2nd August was interactive and wrapped around with love, generosity, creativity, prayer and lots of laughter. The published theme was the feeding of the five thousand. We started with the Junior Church hymn that includes the words “God is a great big God, higher than a skyscraper”.
Maureen taught everyone how to make a paper fish. Much talent was displayed and not a little frustration expressed in the ‘chat’ forum, including “This is the hardest thing we have done in ages.”!
Jeremy’s sermon was on this miracle of feeding the 5000, which shows God’s amazing provision, love and generosity. It happened on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, which tradition says was at Tabgha. Jeremy has visited Tabgha and showed us the fridge magnet which he has to prove it.
And then what we were waiting for – we all sang “Happy birthday” to Jeremy and watched a fabulous video made up of birthday wishes from the congregation – which included greetings in English and Arabic, and a greeting accompanied of a strange hooter (I think); also children popped out of boxes, or were waving placards; people were sitting in pavement cafes, on windy Beachy Head, or in their back gardens; and even from Greece – everyone wishing Jeremy ‘Happy Birthday’ all interspersed with modern rock captions. It was wonderful and amazing!
And then to end the service a Bach voluntary with Peter Foggitt, playing the organ at Emmanuel College Cambridge, lit up in beautiful psychedelic colours
This service was possibly the largest HPC service on zoom with 84 people, including 20 children. A great celebration!
