Bridge Building

There was a parade service this morning and so the congregation was swelled by young people in the uniformed groups, and their parents.

The service began with flags being brought to the front and stood alongside the alter.

There was a story of a bridge builder who brought two feuding brothers back together.

The young people, in uniform, made a bridge with cardboard over a void between two chairs on the platform at the front.

We also heard the story of Zacchaeus, and had it re-enacted with puppets. Zacchaeus as a tax collector was ostracised by his community. He wanted to see Jesus and climbed a tree to see Jesus pass. Jesus reached out to him and went to his home to eat with him. Jesus built the bridge, and Zacchaeus' life was transformed.