Creation!

[curiouswombat]

This is a post about 'what I did on Sunday'.

It was the Children's Anniversary Service at Church - we had been working hard towards it for the last couple of weeks. You may remember my family producing new words for Who Put The Colours In The Rainbow...

So, at the centre of the service was a frieze that would slowly be unrolled along the back of the Sanctuary as I retold the story of Creation as outlined in Genesis - so first of all this needed to be painted -

Here are some of the artists at work -



And then we cut out and/or painted the sun, stars, moon, animals, plants fish, insects and birds to be added as we went along, and also animal masks for the children to wear. Great fun. We started with a totally black square - then God decided there should be something, rather than nothing - and he started to create the universe - with a big BANG! The children enjoyed making a big bang! And so we proceeded - until after ten minutes, which included small people climbing up onto the ministers' chairs to blu-tak things onto the frieze, we ended up with this -



We had all the congregation singing 'Who Put The Colours In The Rainbow', and 'From The Tiny Ant' as a two parter; they were all so impressed with themselves that that finished with a spontaneous round of applause! Not something you often hear in a Reformed church..!

I didn't get a chance to take a picture of all the masks, becuase as soon as the service finished, we decided to try to take a new picture of the whole congregation for our website. A few people were missing, and a couple avoided being on the pic - but this is a 'family picture' of our congregation -



We hadn't finished even then - oh no! About three-quarters of the congregation then went together to the local Wildlife Park for the rest of the day. We mostly travelled together - on a double decker bus. This pic shows some of us downstairs - with my slightly goth niece in the front, my sister and I behind, and my sister's sister in law behind again!



D-d and her boyfriend joined us there - they took the car as she needed to get him back to the airport for his flight home, he was only over for the weekend. They avoided the camera.

I just want to share a few of the pics I took - this shows some of the children on the miniature railway -



My sister and I had a great time going around the park on it ourselves...

And finally - the compulsary lemur pics -



We have a walk through area with lemurs in - they are very friendly -



We had to check my sister's bag to make sure she wasn't smuggling that one out with her - she was very tempted!



Talking about creation - I most certainly recommend Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation for entertaining reading.

Comments

[jerusha]

Hee! Oh, those are wonderful pictures, and the lemurs are just too cute!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I love being able to get so close to the lemurs. Actually you can get as close to the wallabies, or the maras and guanacos, but they are less inclined to come up and demand attention!