Christ Church held its first Holiday Club in many years during the first week of the Easter Holidays, supported by many volunteers and Engage, Woking. The club ran for three mornings using the Scripture Union “Landlubbers” programme with slightly adapted materials to include most of the teaching in three days instead of five!
Landlubbers uses Philippians 1-4 as its base and a memory verse (3:8) is repeated throughout the sessions to help the children remember – “...Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. I have given up everything and count it all as rubbish. All I want is Christ.....”
Christ Church invited primary age children (5-11) from local schools; up to 31 children attended on each morning, mostly from the local school, some attending Messy Church, but mostly not normally seen on a Sunday. They enjoyed interactive drama, warm up songs, clues to find and follow, outdoor games, the memory verse, craft time, refreshments, the Landlubbers theme song and most importantly time to pray together. Parents were invited to come slightly earlier on the last morning to see what their children had been up to. This was a really special time including prayer and ending with a rousing rendition of the theme song.
At the end of the final session one child exclaimed: “Can we do it again in the summer?” God was present during that time and it was worth every minute of planning, preparation and presentation, to see the joy shining through those children and the adults who were there.
