Today was Flashpoint Sunday. Flashpoint is a children's church service that Megan and I run on the last Sunday of each month.
We start in "Big Church" and then decamp after about 20 minutes for the hall where Flashoint is held. The church congregation had Peter on guitar and Megan on Piano to start with and then just Peter because we seem to have a shortage of organists. Anyone want to donate one?
Megan posed the question "What do you need to be a student?"
The kids contributed suggestions including needing a teacher, a computer and a brain. (There were others). Then she moved on to getting the kids to think about the criteria for a worker.
We linked this through to cooking that to cook you need the ingredients and then on to the science
experiment where we had an objective and the objective was to blow the lid off the Milo tin. I had two lots of ingredients. Flour, Baking soda, vinegar and water. Now we all know that you need baking soda and vinegar for this to work but both flour and baking soda are white powder and water and vinegar are both clear liquid. So we did an experiment which of course failed at first because it was flour and water. One small child sensibly pointed out that we could try the flour with vinegar since at that stage we actually did not know which was which. When we finally worked out the correct ingredients the lid popped off.
Jemma read the story. The story is traditionally read by Paul who was away. Jemma put her own spin on it. Firstly she hid the book and there had to be a bit of seeking. This required Alex to lift Finny up to reach it. Then when Jemma was reading she added some dramatic sound effects.
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