'Open the Book was only established as a national venture as recently as 2007, and with extraordinary speed and with minimal publicity, it has reached the significant milestone of the registration of its 1000th Bible story-telling church team' - so reports the latest Open the Book Newsletter. 

In our area we have been part of this exciting growth, presenting Bible stories to children in primary schools first in Halesworth, then Holton, then Wenhaston, and hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, in Bramfield.

But we know that unless the assemblies we take are prayer-soaked, they will not achieve the goals we are aiming for. So please continue to pray for the children and their families, the schools and the teams.

Autumn term at Edgar Sewter was a delight; we had a lot of fun acting the Bible stories - the children enjoyed them too! Thank you for your prayers.

A few snippets:

Don was a stunning Esau, with a bright red wig and very hairy arms (real goatskins provided by Jean Wagg).

Jill looked lovelier than she should have done as the ugly Leah, on her wedding day, but suffered bravely the ill-disguised disgust of her groom.

Doug, as Joseph, twirled and floated about the stage in his multi-coloured striped coat, proud as a peacock, and gloating over his brothers. And then so forlorn and sad in his prison cell, our hearts went out to him. (Do ask Doug about one child‟s reaction when he was Ruler of Egypt.)

Kathryn, Katie, Bob and Pat (Simons) managed to collapse and die most convincingly during the 40 years wandering in the wilderness.