Next week, from 1^st-7^th July, is ‘Create Week’ in the UK, celebrating creativity and its importance to wellbeing. Here at NISCU, we love being creative in all sorts of ways and love helping other people find their creative side too!

At the beginning of this half term a few members of the North Lancs team got to be involved in running a creative ‘Pentecost Praise Day’ with one of our local schools. Throughout the day all classes got to take part in workshops for dance, creative writing, music, art, Bible storytelling games and interactive prayer stations, all around the story of Pentecost. It’s amazing to see children responding and expressing themselves in all sorts of ways, enabling them to engage with such an exciting story, perhaps in new ways that they wouldn’t have been able to before. I absolutely loved being able to put together and hear poems and diary entries with children from reception to year 6, all finding and playing with words to give expression to their minds and hearts. What a joy to see children responding to the Bible and the Holy Spirit like this!

The following week I got to go and give an assembly in another local school on their school value of Creativity. While we thought about the ways we like to be creative, we thought primarily about the greatest, ultimate Creator, the One who can make beautiful things from nothing at all. It’s amazing to think not only that all the things we love and enjoy in this world were intricately designed, engineered and gifted to us but that the God who made them all created us in his own image to reflect that very same creativity with fun and beautiful gifts to enjoy!

Abi Andrews, Schools Worker