Sheep & Summer
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curiouswombatTraditionally the church children have a special service in July to celebrate the end of term as we do not have children's lessons over the summer, so many of them are off-island, and it gives the teachers a chance to charge our own batteries.
This service was on Sunday - and our theme was sheep! We looked at a number of the times sheep occur in the Bible a few weeks ago - and then we made sheep! Lots of sheep. And rehearsed a story, and made more sheep...
I took some pictures -
We first made sheep from paper plates and cotton wool - this kept people busy on a week when we were short of teachers!
They were, like people, all individuals! And took their place in the Sanctuary at church...
We reminded everyone that sheep were a valued and well cared for commodity throughout the times written of in the Bible- to be considered His sheep is to know that you are valued. And we thought about the shepherds in the Bible - from Jacob, Joseph, David, and those in the psalms to those in the Nativity story, and Jesus request to Peter to 'feed my sheep'. Readings and prayers focussed on these - and then we told the story of Daniel, the lost sheep who was found by the Good Shepherd... For which we had made lots of masks!
There were a couple more sheep - but there are always a couple who get away before the camera comes out after the service. Also - look closely to spot the two black sheep near the back! As well as the cast and the narrator (young girl at left), who was very good as she paced it properly, there are a couple of teachers too. Oh - and Daniel the lost sheep is the sheep wearing a purple eye-mask!
And the final flock of sheep produced by the children in the preceding weeks were handed out to by the smallest people to everyone to write either their own name, or that of someone else they felt needed prayers onto, then my small shepherds collected them all back in and they were stuck onto their own pasture -
Where they will remain over the summer to remind the adults of the children, and for anyone and everyone to take time to sit prayerfully and consider those named.
Making all the sheep was good fun - and hopefully some of the service will remain in the memories of even the smallest people - and I know some of the adults appreciated it because they said so!
In other news - it is definitely summer today - S2C has taken his jumper off. And even his sweatshirt for an hour or two!
Actually the temperature was about 25C today - and I met one of my patients who has a small son, about 18 months old. She said he was a bit fretful in the heat - but then it occurred to us that it has never been as warm as this at any time in his life - no wonder he was making strange!
This service was on Sunday - and our theme was sheep! We looked at a number of the times sheep occur in the Bible a few weeks ago - and then we made sheep! Lots of sheep. And rehearsed a story, and made more sheep...
I took some pictures -
We first made sheep from paper plates and cotton wool - this kept people busy on a week when we were short of teachers!
They were, like people, all individuals! And took their place in the Sanctuary at church...
We reminded everyone that sheep were a valued and well cared for commodity throughout the times written of in the Bible- to be considered His sheep is to know that you are valued. And we thought about the shepherds in the Bible - from Jacob, Joseph, David, and those in the psalms to those in the Nativity story, and Jesus request to Peter to 'feed my sheep'. Readings and prayers focussed on these - and then we told the story of Daniel, the lost sheep who was found by the Good Shepherd... For which we had made lots of masks!
There were a couple more sheep - but there are always a couple who get away before the camera comes out after the service. Also - look closely to spot the two black sheep near the back! As well as the cast and the narrator (young girl at left), who was very good as she paced it properly, there are a couple of teachers too. Oh - and Daniel the lost sheep is the sheep wearing a purple eye-mask!
And the final flock of sheep produced by the children in the preceding weeks were handed out to by the smallest people to everyone to write either their own name, or that of someone else they felt needed prayers onto, then my small shepherds collected them all back in and they were stuck onto their own pasture -
Where they will remain over the summer to remind the adults of the children, and for anyone and everyone to take time to sit prayerfully and consider those named.
Making all the sheep was good fun - and hopefully some of the service will remain in the memories of even the smallest people - and I know some of the adults appreciated it because they said so!
In other news - it is definitely summer today - S2C has taken his jumper off. And even his sweatshirt for an hour or two!
Actually the temperature was about 25C today - and I met one of my patients who has a small son, about 18 months old. She said he was a bit fretful in the heat - but then it occurred to us that it has never been as warm as this at any time in his life - no wonder he was making strange!
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Date: 08/07/2013 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 08/07/2013 09:36 pm (UTC)I'm amused at 25c being hot. If I've done the math correctly that's 77f; which is what I'd call a perfect summer day! Especially as it was super hot (94f/35c) here last week, and that really was miserable in a world without air conditioner! Though I suppose if you've never felt warm before...
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Date: 08/07/2013 09:49 pm (UTC)Yes - in farenheit today was mid to upper 70s. Which is a nice warm summer day for us - we rarely get anything hotter; and I don't think we got above 70F last summer!
Of course we don't have air-con, apart from in many of our cars, it would be regarded as an unnecessary affectation! So if we do get up to 28 - 30C for more than half an hour, we will really feel hot.
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Date: 08/07/2013 09:58 pm (UTC)Yup; that sounds like seattle weather! The last 2-3 years have been like that but this one's shaping up to be hot. We have highs this week in the high 70s/ low 80s F (I think low to mid 20sC) which is actually a little warmer than usual but after last week's record highs no one is complaining!
We don't do heat well in the PNW! And heat usually means forrest fires in the mountains. Shudder. My good friend had a forrest fire literally in her back yard last summer. It took out the back fence. Scary stuff!
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Date: 08/07/2013 09:40 pm (UTC)25º Is considered quite coolish here. But then, most people who live in Rio would consider your coolish temperatures as quite cold.
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Date: 08/07/2013 09:54 pm (UTC)Last year we didn't reach 25C at all! This week it looks as if we will see it for a few hours each day. If it is a good summer we might have more weeks like this at regular intervals until mid September.
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Date: 09/07/2013 01:23 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 09/07/2013 07:29 am (UTC)You would be amused by the mask of the little girl front right, then - her older brother cut it down to make it smaller for her - and I think he gave it a distinctly goat-like face in the process! (She's the 3 year old who walked up the mountain with her dad the day before.)
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Date: 09/07/2013 07:22 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 09/07/2013 03:29 am (UTC)Yay for summer!
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Date: 09/07/2013 04:34 am (UTC)Also, I thought a jumper and a sweater were the same thing. But since they're not, what's a jumper?
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Date: 09/07/2013 05:23 am (UTC)Yes, must be summer, dad has removed one (only one) of the blankets from his bed!
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Date: 09/07/2013 07:39 am (UTC)Ah - your dad is clearly a man after S2C's heart!
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Date: 09/07/2013 11:47 am (UTC)But then, if someone from equatorial regions could see my post, s/he'd probably say: "35C? And you call it 'heat'? You should come to our place to see what real heat is." :)))
The point is, I'd be really happy if we here had temperatures of only 25.
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Date: 09/07/2013 12:21 pm (UTC)And I can imagine, when it gets so hot where you are that you just want to lie down in the shade, that you might envy us our climate!
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Date: 09/07/2013 01:50 pm (UTC)We do! :)
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Date: 09/07/2013 05:23 pm (UTC)It's definitely summer here too and way too hot for both me and my sheep even though they're all shorn now!
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Date: 10/07/2013 12:22 pm (UTC)It is a nice 21C with a slight breeze today. once it gets over 25 it is too hot to work, I think!
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Date: 10/07/2013 01:51 am (UTC)It's all what someone is accustomed to, isn't it? I think 25°C is heavenly--the perfect temperature. It was 107°F/41.7°C here today. And it's been windy. When it's that hot, a breeze isn't refreshing--it's a blast furnace. Sucks out every bit of moisture from a body including the marrow from your bones. Or so it feels! Your husband would not only discard his sweatshirt--he'd be down to his skivvies! But I'm not complaining, because I have air conditioning, don't have to work outside (although I watered the poor, parched pots), and it still beats winter.
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Date: 10/07/2013 12:28 pm (UTC)We are happy in 25C - but anything higher does get difficult to work in for some of us. And poor wee George was probably a little surprised by it - last year was not a good summer, and we never reached 25C at all!
I can absolutely imagine the blast furnace effect. Today is still beautiful - we have had sunshine much of the time since early June - but is 21C with a slight breeze. This is lovely - but a higher wind and a higher temperature would be most uncomfortable.
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Date: 12/07/2013 05:09 pm (UTC)S2C has taken his jumper off. And even his sweatshirt for an hour or two!
:o))) Yay to summer! *\O/* We're having it finally, too. About time!