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Gifts galore!

On Sunday we celebrated our Junior Church Anniversary and our service was a true celebration of God's gifts to us.

We were privileged to be led by John Froud, singer, song-writer and evangelist, assisted by Rob Dunsire, poet. Many of our children had met John before as he works with 45 or so schools in the Bradford area. Rob has been with us before; you'll see the fruits of his work with us on a previous blog entry. Both are using God's gifts to the full and, through their words and music, we marvelled afresh at the wonder, and glorious gift of God's creation. We thank you both, and feel sure that this will not be your last visit to Thackley!

An anniversary celebration wouldn't be complete without presents. To show our youngsters how much they mean to our Church family, Kim and Louise presented each member of our Junior Church a lovely book.

It was also a great joy to share our Anniversary service with those who have been baptised at Thackley in recent years. Although not regular members of Junior Church, we value them as part of our wider church family and made sure they also went away with a small gift. It was good to see how they have grown, and we hope they will join us again soon.

As usual, coffee was served after the service and once more we saw another demonstration of God's gifts through our talents challenge. Having been given £5 by the church - yes given! - several members have already started using their talents to make this grow. Ruth and Verity were selling prayer cards, Philip and Daniel were selling home-made sweets (they were delicious!), and Lisa and Ian were developing our grey matter with a couple of quizzes to see if we could guess whose eyes we were looking at, and name the plants in their neighbours' gardens. Elaine and Chloe have another challenge in store for us next week when we're asked to sign a banner which they will then embroider for display in church.

Well done everyone; let's keep using the wonderful gifts that God has given us.