Worship by the Waves 13.09.24

This week we have been thinking about the parable of the mustard seed.  We heard the story again and then listened to some of Orca class tell us about ordinary people that have done great things:
George Fox
Born in 1624 in a village in Leicestershire. He was an apprentice to a shoemaker. He was the founder of the Quaker movement, a religious group committed to peace that has spread all over the world.
Edward Jenner
Born in 1749 in a village in Gloucestershire. He was an apprentice to a country surgeon. He discovered the vaccine for smallpox.
Mary Jones
Born in 1784 in a small village in Wales. She wanted a Bible in her own language of Welsh. This resulted in the formation in 1804 of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which has now translated the Bible into over a thousand languages.
Florence Nightingale
Born nearly 250 years ago, she went out to nurse soldiers in the Crimean War. She led the way in the establishment of schools of nursing and of the modern hospital system.
Rudolph Diesel
Born in 1858 in Paris. He left France because of war and settled in London with no money and no friends. He was the inventor of the diesel engine.
Lech Walesa
Born in Poland just after the Second World War, and worked in a shipyard. He founded the trade union Solidarity, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983, and became President of Poland.
Martin Luther King
An ordinary black American of the last century who came to lead the movement for peaceful change in America, helping to get equal rights for black people.
 
We then had a quiet reflective time where we all lay on our backs and thought about what we could do to make a difference in someone's life.
 
We then sang 'Faith as small as a mustard seed'