Parable of the Lost “My Little Pony”

My turn today to do the part of the church service that is specifically for the kids. So we did the Parable of the Lost My Little Pony. Unfortunately during the ensuing hunt around the house last night Sparkleberry Swirl and Minty were unable to be found (they really were lost) so Seaspray (see picture) had to front up. Which she did just fine.

The talk went well - it focused on God as a passionate, even obsessive, collector of people - so I had lots of props of things young and older people collect (including a old 45rpm disc of the NZ soccer teams 1982 world cup song!) and interaction with the children. The parable of the lost sheep was reworked into a girl who collected the ponies, lost one, searched and found it, and celebrated. That parable in Matthew 18 works well because it sits within texts that talk about God valuing children.

Was going to talk about collecting robot movies, science fiction TV shows and comic books - which the kids would have been fine with - but some obsessions are better left at home sometimes. (Still getting comments about the Serenity screen saver that kicked in last time I was preaching - though some people felt the images went well with the content of the sermon.)