St. John’s Family Festival

​On Sunday, 29 June we celebrated St. John’s with a Family Festival. The children made torches to light the St. John’s fire before the Sunday Service.

Then, during the Act of Consecration of Man the children were treated to a table puppet show of Rumpelstiltskin.
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Everyone gathered around the fire with their tea and coffee to hear a story of Jesus child who visited three farmers as a child beggar. These farmers grew their crop of grain and, by tradition, offered some of their harvest to St John. After the three farmers had interacted with the child beggar and were on their way to make their offering of the harvest grain to St John, they were lifted to portals of heaven. There St. John met them, and they were appropriately rewarded according to how they had received the child beggar. Only one farmer was blessed by the Christ Child for his love and kindness, and the grain that had been blessed was baked into a golden loaf that never diminished and fed everyone who came to the farmer’s door.

​After the story everyone shared the food they had brought, and we sat down to a splendid meal.