A narrated video of Saul's life and
conversion on the Damascus road! Acted out by members of St Denys Church Lisvane
and Set to the Jaws theme tune and the Alleluia Chorus!
To give a flavour of what an All Age
Service is like, here are some pictures and details of the All Age Service that
took place on 18th January 2004.
Power Point is
normally used in this monthly service, to the left is the title screen used
during the service.
After the welcome to the service, a
prayer was said and essential notices given out.
Each All Age Service includes a memory
verse and now it was time for January's Memory Verse. This
is a challenge
that everyone rises to (literally this month!) Adults included! It was learnt by
the congregation being split in half and alternating between the
two groups with each word of the verse! Did I forget to mention that each
group had to quickly stand up when saying their word then sit down as the other
group stood up and said their word! It certainly worked as a good warm up!
We were then told that there would be
surprise Memory Verse tests during the service (heralded by a police siren sound
effect and a flashing "Memory Verse Alert!" Graphic). It was at this point
I knew I should have paid more attention to the memory verse learning!!
We had an opening time of worship.
The Songs sung were:
Click
here to hear a sample(for
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(and as such St Denys has no control over its content)
and the sample of the song is sung by other people.
After the
lively worship we had a quiz time, with pictures of our Vicar Paul in unexpected
situations! This involved Paul as one of a quartet of well known children's
television characters (eh oh!), a football player in a team, a cast member in
Eastenders and one of a group of American Civil War Veterans! The quiz was
to spot him, like in Where's Wally™.
This also helped relate to the theme of the January All Age Service which was
finding God in situations and circumstances where we don't expect him.
We then had the
first of the surprise Memory Verse Alerts!
After that shock, we had a bible reading which
was Matthew 25: 34-40.The difference was that it was read twice and Keren
and Ed acted out parts of the verse. The first read through was from the
NIV translation. The second read through was from
Rob Lacey's Street Bible (a very modern interpretation and was read with a
South London accent!) Sorry there's no photos but I was doing the reading!).
Keren explained the relevance of the
passage for us today.
Another Surprise Memory Verse Alert
was then instigated! By this time most people were getting to remember the
verse!
We had a gentle song called "If I go
Climbing" which the toddlers and very young children came out to front and did
actions to, we all sang along.
There was a chance for people to write
or draw a situation that they don't usually expect to be aware of God's
presence. These were then placed up the front of church with the prayer that we
would see where the Lord is in those places/situations.
The worship band then led us in a
small time of worship, the children had been given the memory verse in a picture
which they could colour, if they didn't want to sing!
This month we had a drummer and Rob
can be seen on Electric Guitar, Julia on piano and hidden from view was Steve on
acoustic guitar!
We then had the
first of the surprise Memory Verse Alerts! 
Power Point is
normally used in this monthly service, to the left is the title screen used
during the service.
is a challenge
that everyone rises to (literally this month!) Adults included! It was learnt by
the congregation being split in half and alternating between the
two groups with each word of the verse! Did I forget to mention that each
group had to quickly stand up when saying their word then sit down as the other
group stood up and said their word! It certainly worked as a good warm up!