The Parish on Penn Magazine - December 2019

Bears & Prayers is an event involving the
Bart’s Busy Bees Playgroup who use the
church hall, and is lead by Val Plant. It takes
place in the Lady Chapel every other week
at either 9.45am or 12.45pm. There is no set
day as Busy Bees have different children at
each session and they want all of them to
experience coming into church.
The children walk across to church with
Busy Bees staff and sit in the Lady Chapel.
We sing our favourite nursery rhymes and
have a Bible story told in a child friendly and
interactive way. Then we say some very loud
thank yous to God for the things that we are
grateful for – mums, grandparents, friends,
carrots, bikes or even diggers! We end by
singing “God loves you” to remind us that
God does, indeed love us.
Bears & Prayers
Bears & Prayers time lasts about 20 minutes
then the children and staff go back to the hall.
On occasion there are over 40 children, too
many to sit comfortably in the Lady Chapel,
so the under 3s have their time first and then
everything is repeated for 3-4 year olds.
It is a lovely, sometimes chaotic, event and
we are very happy for you to join us – just
watch the Blog for our next date.
Busy Bees will be putting on a special “Busy
Bees does Christmas” for their parents
and carers on Thursday 19th December at
10.30am in the main church.
- Valerie Plant
18 The Parish of Penn Magazine