St John’s Children’s Festival - 25 June 2023

St. John's is a festival of fire. A group of eight children gathered in a circle in the middle of which a small bonfire was lit. The children listened to a beautiful story of the sunbird who begged the sun for more light and warm in the middle of winter and was rewarded by the flower of the beautiful aloe. The story was followed by the children's lighting a little coloured lantern and processing to a place in the garden where an aloe was just coming into colour. To encourage the aloe the children placed their coloured lanterns in the shape of an aloe flower. The children then practiced the song for St. John before going into the service.

A quick view of the crackling St John's fire

The aloe flower made of lanterns