Champion’s Challenge is the name of this year’s Holiday Club at St John's and the focus of our Holiday Club service on the first Sunday in August. What is it all about? Well, the holiday club programme focuses on events from Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and on sport.
That might seem an odd mixture but it enables us to think about Jesus as our trainer, team-mate and substitute, and as a winner and champion. Through these themes we can discover how Jesus chose, taught and worked alongside his team, took the place of others when punishment was being meted out, but yet won the battle against death and destruction so that he is now the champion for ever!
Those involved with the Holiday Club in whatever way will be putting much of this teaching into practice by working together as team-mates to share the good news about Jesus’ life, death and resurrection with the children attending the club. Doing this is not just a one week activity though but something that should be a year round activity, as our new banners in church seek to remind us.
Since the banners were put in place I have come across, on a number of different occasions, a poem of Teresa of Avila that expresses the message that we hope the banners encapsulate:
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
That might seem an odd mixture but it enables us to think about Jesus as our trainer, team-mate and substitute, and as a winner and champion. Through these themes we can discover how Jesus chose, taught and worked alongside his team, took the place of others when punishment was being meted out, but yet won the battle against death and destruction so that he is now the champion for ever!
Those involved with the Holiday Club in whatever way will be putting much of this teaching into practice by working together as team-mates to share the good news about Jesus’ life, death and resurrection with the children attending the club. Doing this is not just a one week activity though but something that should be a year round activity, as our new banners in church seek to remind us.
Since the banners were put in place I have come across, on a number of different occasions, a poem of Teresa of Avila that expresses the message that we hope the banners encapsulate:
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet
with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands
with which he is to bless men now.
May we truly become the hands, feet, eyes and body of Christ in this year’s Holiday Club and, throughout the year, in our families, workplaces, community and church.
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