How do you feel?

February 2016

The latest prayer station has been installed at St Stephen's Church, entitled "How do you feel".

The visitor is invited to take a glass bead and place it on one of the emoji plates.

There are 4 sad faces and 4 happy faces drawn on paper plates with a couple in between...
After spending some time talking to God about how they feel, they can move their bead or put a new one down on a different plate - how they're feeling now or how they want to feel..

The verses available (on funky foam) are all from Psalms where, of course, you can find most emotions:
Psalm 13
Psalm 23
Psalm 28: 6-9
Psalm 56: 8-13

The back drop and the large faces were made from 3 paper tablecloths from the 99p Shop. The lights were left up from the last station.

The poster advertising it now has "St Stephen's Prayer Space" on it. I realised that our notice boards act as a public space so we get posters advertising things at lots of different places. The previous posters could have been advertising prayer spaces in any local church!

I got a couple of emoji cushions that were everywhere before Christmas. They've been named Chill and Si (thanks Nicki) and have come to stay in the children's corner. They are "guarding" the felt pens and paper plates with an invitation for children to draw their own emoji faces.
The felt pens may be a bad idea and have to disappear but we'll see...
It's the school half-term holiday next week so I'm hoping that parents will pop in with their children at some point.