Today, as I do when I am not preaching on a 'second Sunday' I was helping with out Messy Sunday School - we use Messy Church (and other) resources and adapt them for out context.  Today the children had opportunity to make poppies from play-doh and from paper, among other activities designed to help them engage with Remembrance.

We learned about the meanings of different colours of poppies, and why people might choose to wear them.  I learned something new too - as black poppies weren't something I could recall hearing about before...these recall the lives of African, and African heritage people whose lives were lost in wars.

Today I stumbled across this tweet from RBL about poppies which seems helpful...