Easter assembly – Amazing Love
The GenR8 Easter assembly tour started on 9 March with five GenR8 teams taking an assembly presentation, Amazing Love, into primary and first schools in Cambridgeshire, North Hertfordshire, and West Norfolk; with 20 volunteers and 2 staff making over 120 visits and reaching several thousand children!
We explored the Christian belief that Jesus showed amazing love when he died on the cross, making it possible for us to be part of God’s family. It had the usual mix of fun and interaction, with a John Hardwick song, a Bible story (The Road to Emmaus narrative from Luke 24:–35) and a mime, ending with a reflective poem and prayer.
Amazing opportunities
GenR8 is a Local Mission Partner of Scripture Union. Remembering that, nationwide, over 95% of children never go to church, this is a God-given opportunity to share the gospel – and yes, the puppets went too. But we also work in other ways...
Xcellr8
Xcellr8 is an annual weekend for 8–11-year-olds, which seeks to help children meet with God, as they join with children from churches from around the region. Fun, friendship and faith are all on the agenda, and this year 49 children, 12 young team members and 33 adults were involved!
Church services
Siân Thorne, our director is coming to Great Shelford Free Church on May 3 to talk in our service about the work. She will be joined by Gillian Overitt, who has worked with GenR8 for many years. We praise God for the opportunity both here and in other churches to speak about our work.
Inspire Prayer Spaces
We are regularly invited into schools to lead an Inspire Prayer Space Day in the school, the local church or even outside. A recent example was at Cherry Hinton CE Primary School where the day was part of a whole school ‘Spirituality Day’ based upon the theme ‘I Wonder…?’.
Permanent Prayer Spaces
‘Wisdom and Knowledge’ is the theme for the Prayer Space that was delivered to our fourteen partner schools at the start of this term. In the prayer space the children are encouraged to think about how they grow in knowledge and how we can all use the knowledge we have to make wise decisions.
Cool Choices
Cool Choices is a two-hour interactive workshop aimed at Year 6 students to help them make positive life choices. Each session is led by 2 members of GenR8, and this tour we went into 19 schools. This includes a reflective response time and a Christian perspective on making ‘cool’ choices.