Blessing of the Animals this Sunday

 

Bring your pet along to church this Sunday!

Blessing of the Animals

This week, it's St Francis of Assisi Day and Rev Anne will be doing a Blessing of the Animals.

Here are some photos Awesome Kids Emelia and Lily sent in of Storm (their latest edition to the family) a 14 week Border Collie; Tiggy, who turns 1 today and Soxy (2 years old). We think they are just beautiful!

Watch Blessing of the Animals

 Check out the video made by Izak last week, of our Blessing of the Animals service...

Click HERE to watch Blessing of the Animals video

Blessing of the Animals | this Sunday

 

Bring a pet (or photo or stuffed toy animal) to church this week!

A cat, a bear and a dog

Just found this pic from last Sunday's Blessing of the Animals. The lovely border collie Ruby seemed very happy with all the attention. 😊

Blessing of the Animals

https://youtu.be/1z-tCYQE_F8

On Sunday our youth and young adults led our worship service, to which all animals were invited. We celebrated God's wonderful creation, all creatures great and small, weird and wonderful, bright and beautiful.

Rev Anne led the Blessing of the Animals. The youth led the music, readings, prayers and reflections. We had a drama based on the fable of the Lion and the Mouse. We were reminded that we are each unique and perfectly planned and created by God, and no matter how small we are, we can do great things... sharing the love of God with others.