In our first session in March, we took a Messy look at the story of Abraham and Sarah led us into themes of journeys and sandy deserts.  Rather than our normal Messy tea we made our own pack-up tea ready for our journey.  In our celebration we packed our bags again and set off round the church before pitching camp under a parachute tent to hear the story of God's promise to Abraham and Sarah that they would become parents of a huge family stretching over the generations.

Colouring camel pictures over the top of sandpaper gave them a good texture

We celebrated our first birthday today too!

Tea!

The story of Noah's ark gave plenty of potential for crafts based on animals and on rainbows.  When it came to our worship celebration, we bounced our prayers up to God on our own rainbow.  Tea was a particularly delicious fish pie.

Birstall Messy Church are making their own contribution to the Biblefresh initiative  by hosting a series of sessions that focus on the main stories from the book of Genesis from now until Easter. Naturally we started at the beginning with the Creation. From making our own Garden of Eden (complete with dinosaurs) to creating our own creatures (including the incredibly useful hoover creature) to learning how to do hand massage for 7th day relaxation, a great time was had by all. It was wonderful to welcome families back into 2011.