A surprise at school!
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Head teacher
Jeanette Hart at Osmaston CofE Primary school in Derbyshire got a bit of a surprise
last month when a boy brought a hand grenade into school[1].
It was a show
and tell assembly, and since the class had been talking about VE day, this
particular lad thought that he’d grab the family heirloom, a world war two hand
grenade, and bring it into school.
Mrs Hart told
the BBC, “It was quite an eventful assembly. It was going fine and there was a
boy who brought an old bullet case in, which I knew about, but then his friend
produced a hand grenade from his pocket… That I was not expecting”.
What followed
next was that the head ended the assembly, moved all the children to safety, rather
nervously deposited the grenade at the far end of the school and then called in
the police and Army explosive experts.
Well
fortunately the grenade wasn’t live, and everyone was able to get back on with
their day, but it ended up not your average day for Osmaston Primary School!
I wonder where
you are right now as you listen to HCRfm. Perhaps sitting in traffic on the
roads, perhaps working in your office or factory somewhere in Huntingdon or one
of the surrounding towns or villages, or perhaps doing a spot of housework with
the radio on in the background. Oh what we’d give for a bit more excitement. No
not necessarily with an added risk of explosion. But a change to the “same old,
same old” would be kind of nice!
The word that
the Apostle Paul uses in the Bible for the power at work in Christianity is “dunamis”
(Romans
1:16), it’s the word from which we get “dynamite”. He’s saying watch out
for the Christian message. It can seriously transform your life. As everyday
people hear about Jesus of Nazareth and what he did on planet earth, their
lives can be irreversibly changed for good as his love impacts their everyday
choices, relationships, future. So more powerful than a hand grenade, perhaps reading
your Bible and going to church should come with a health warning, albeit a positive
one! “Warning- Christianity contains dynamite, can seriously change your life”. Thanks for listening.
Charlie Newcombe 26JUN25.