Sunday 26th
May was Trinity Sunday and so it was not surprising that at all services, and both
Friday and Sunday GAP, we were discussing, the not very easy, but fundamental
concept of "The Holy Trinity".
The Holy
Trinity can be defined as “The Union of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit in One Godhead.”
“Three in
one and one in three”!
To try and demonstrate
how something can be one thing, and yet have three parts, we used a variety of different symbols.
At Friday
GAP, the children discussed a number of things such as water – which can be
solid (ice), liquid (water) or gas (steam) and yet is still, all the same
substance.
They
thought about pretzels and looked at the classic symbol of the Holy
Trinity. Then they tried to make a
representation out of clay. This proved
to be easier said than done. Nevertheless,
Mollie managed remarkably well!
At Sunday
GAP, the children used the representation of an egg – The shell, the white and
the yolk all perform different functions but are all parts of one egg. To demonstrate this Sally shelled an egg and
cut the egg in half so that the children could see all the 3 parts. Unfortunately, the first egg she used for
this demonstration, which she thought had been hard boiled, turned out to be a
raw egg!! Yuk!!! What a mess!
However, the GAP children will probably not forget the egg symbol!
Geoffrey
also used the egg at 4U2 – but wisely did not use a real egg – just a picture! Geoffrey also used a picture of half an apple
(core, flesh and skin all having different function but making the whole), and
a picture of a clover leaf.
Whichever symbol works best for you,
why not use it to contemplate the wonders of
the marvellous Godhead.
If you don't know about GAP, the word stands for God And Play. Gap is for Primary school aged children. There are two different groups one on Fridays, from 3.30 p.m. until 5.00 p.m. and one on Sundays, from 10.30 a.m. until 11.45 a.m. (This session runs parallel to the 10.30 a.m. service.)
For more information about GAP please phone Christine on 560518 or Sally on 553977)
