Bags, bags and more bags

This week the majority of my time has been taken up making hessian bags. Next week we are running a RE curriculum day for year 5's (9 and 10 year olds) from across the island, each day we will have about 100 children attending (over the week we will have just over half the island year 5's attend). They will learn about Christianity in the past (from the point of view of monks) as well as the present and about prayer, they will do this by talking to people who are in character as monks, craft activities as well as corpurt worship at the start and end of the day. In order to do this we use volunteers from all over the island who go to all different types of churches. In order for you to understand more fully here is a video from last years event

Each child that attends lifepath is given a journey bag at the start of the day, in which they place all the items they make or are give at each of the stations throughout the day. This means the 500 of these journey bags needed to be made. Most of these have been done by people outside the organisation who have amazing sewing skills and want to donate some of their time but some has been completed by yours-truly. Here is an example of a completed bag

Most of these are now finished and we are just waiting for the last ones to be returned to the house in order for them to be given out next week.

In other news we did our last practice walk before the parish walk which is next Saturday, we managed to walk about 15 miles in 3hrs 45, now if we could just walk twice as far next week I might reach my goal!