Thank you, Lord, for Spring and for Lent

By Karen Permentiers, Sunday School Coordinator.

‘Carnaval’, ‘Krokus vacantie’, half-term – whatever it’s called, our children recently had a break from school and for many people it was a chance to get away for a while. So with numbers down a little, on 10 February, we combined classes in Sunday School and divided into three rather than the usual six groups.

Our theme for the day was spring and in particular Lent, which had started a few days earlier. Having talked about Lent and why we keep it, and about what people were giving up (chocolate, crisps, playing with ‘Nintendo’, etc.), the children in the 7–10-year-old group were asked to write prayers on our theme, while the 3–6-year-olds coloured ‘Spring’ pictures. Here are a selection of the prayers and pictures they produced.