In Memoriam

Loving as God Loves within Families

The first kind of family is when a couple marry and have children. They promise to love each other, work together, and help each other love as God loves.

The second kind of family is the group of persons in the work place. Your work place is school. This kind of family is formed when students and teachers work together, love each other, and help each other love as God loves.

Finally, the sacrament of Baptism joins us to another family – God’s family, the Church. As members of this family, we should work together, love each other, and help each other love as God loves. There are many ways in which people work together in God’s family.

Can you think of some of the ways people help out in your church?

Many people help with Holy Communion being altar servers, readers and ushers, and children are great candle lighters and snuffers as in your Friday church, playing musical instruments. Then we have people teaching Sunday school, playing the organ, and also others involved with distributing food and clothes to the poor.

When you give your time and talents to others, you are showing your love for them. All people who are baptized form the family of God, the Church. So children we are the family of God and we should all work together, love each other and help each other love as God loves.

Avril

The Person I Admire The Most

The person who I admire the most is the priest in my church, Father Alan. The reason I admire him is because - He tells jokes to make people laugh.
After he tells a story from the Bible he asks questions to make sure if we’ve paid attention or not.

Whenever we sing hymns he strums his guitar or plays the organ, and also makes us sing in parts.
He’s very lively and joyful always, but the best part is that he makes the children light the candles of the church.

Sometimes he organizes the church services in the desert on Ascension Day.

When Father Alan leaves on holiday, the church services seem very boring.

At Friday services there is always something to look forward to, not the same old boring story.
Before we sing our last hymn he makes the small children take any instrument they want and allows them to play and sing along with him.
Father Alan is the best.

Charles Andrews (aged 9)

The things children say!

After the christening of his baby brother in church, little Johnny who was sitting in the back seat of the car, sobbed all the way home. His father asked him three times what was wrong. Finally, the boy replied, “That priest said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I want to stay with you guys!”