So a few friends seem to have been carving Christian pumpkins for Halloween, so I thought I’d pop them up here in a gallery.
The young people of FourFourty, St Patrick’s Wallington, carved a wonderful selection of pumpkins. Here’s a group picture:
Cassie carved one with a rainbow as well as a cross in it:
Dan, an ordinand at Oak Hill, carved this very impressive pumpkin. His daughter loved it, particularly the way the cross at the back projected onto the wall.
Maggie is a head teacher, and she carved this one and was taking it into school assembly this week.
Sarah Phillips of Hope House Press sent me her pic too.
Phil Ritchie claims that his Christian pumpkins represent Peter and Paul disputing at Antioch.
I only wish the disagreements in the Church of England could be resolved with such broad smiles.
Here’s ours again. Cross, Star of David and dove, to give a bit of a bible overview theme. We had a very useful kit bought in Waitrose (I was shopping with my mother, you understand, our nearest Waitrose is miles away, both physically and financially). The kit had mini saws, which meant that we could do quite fancy patterns.
The Vicar's Wife 
These are so cool! Especially yours and Maggie’s.
We had a little cross one on the table for a few days but it’s unfortunately gone in the dustbin, a rather slimey moldy mess.
One year when we got a higher through put of trick-or-treaters on the doorstep, we gave them all a candle in a cardboard holder on which we’d written the words ‘Jesus loves you’ as our treat. No one visited the following year!
Thank you! Lovely ideas to use next yr too! We had a great worship assembly all about light… And the following day on a trip through Blackpool illuminations, saw “Jesus is the light of the world ” display ….. Fantastic!