CHILDREN’S PAGE

First of all, many congratulations to Isabel for her lovely telling of the story of the imaginative story of the Sheep’s visit to Jesus that first Christmas. You can read Isabel’s story on page 42 and on the Church website. There will be another book token prize for this month’s competition (see below).

This time we have a crossword based on the life of Jesus. You will know many of the answers from recent Sunday Club sessions but if you are stuck ask for help at home or in Sunday Club! Here is the crossword.

CHILDREN'S CROSSWORD

Across

1 The name of the river where John baptised Jesus (6)

2 Special name given to stories which Jesus told to teach us how to live (8)

7 When Jesus cured people he acted as one of these. (6)

10 A title given to Jesus to show how very special He was. (3,2,3)

13 Jesus acted as a ..........when he explained what God was really like (7)

14 Sometimes Jesus did extraordinary things that no one could explain.The people regarded him as a ............. (7,5)

18 Sadly, on what we now call Good Friday, Jesus was crucified and.... (4)

20 The main place of worship in Jerusalem (6)

21 The number of disciples first chosen by Jesus (6)

                22 It was John the ......., who baptised Jesus in the river Jordan (7)

Down

                1 The main town in Israel, where Jesus visited the temple (9)

                3 A word we use now at the end of our prayers. It means 'so be it' (4)

                4 Two letters given to the years before Jesus was born. Short for Before Christ. (2)

                5 One of the fisherman who became a follower of Jesus. Later he became known as Peter (5)

                6 Jesus came to be thought of as one of these. But not like Henry or Charles or George .... (4)

                8 A special name given by Jesus to His followers when he sent them out to spread the good news about Him (8)

                9 The place where Jesus was born (9)

                11 Jesus' mother (4)

                12 Jesus lived here during his childhood (8)

                15 On Easter Sunday Jesus' friends heard the amazing news that Jesus had......

                16 Simon, Peter, Mary, Andrew and lots more were ..... of Jesus (7)

                17 Two letters given to each year after Jesus was born - short for Anno Domini (2)

                19 What Zaccheus climbed to get a better view of Jesus (4)

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Now for the competition.

We invite you to write a sentence where the first letter of each word is the first letter of one of the answers to the clues in the crossword. Got it?? You will need to use at least 3 of these letters from the crossword but in addition you can have up to five other words which start with any one of the vowels in the alphabet (even if they are not first or last letters in the crossword answer) . An example is below:

Each day say ‘please’ and ‘thanks’ - smiles help also.

Please pass your sentence to one of the Sunday Club staff or to Darren or Jane – or email Ken Wales. Entries needed by end of May. Once more, a £10 book token to the winning entry.

Answer to previous Wordsearch HERE and the winning children's competition entry HERE.