When someone finds one they are meant to put a photo on social media and say where they found it and then keep it until 22nd December, where everyone who found one comes together at the church for their carol service, ‘Jesus Rocks Celebration’.
So far around 30-40 have been posted publicly on social media, including a nurse who has found one near work, a child who found one outside the school gates and a woman who found one on her 5:30am dog walk.
#ehJesusRocks – found one on my way to work today @earlshallbap thank you! pic.twitter.com/TGYO4NRNjE
— Day Assessment Unit (@DayAssessmentUn) December 6, 2019
Tom Vernon, the minister at Earls Hall Baptist Church, told Premier Christian Radio’s News Hour: “We’d been seeking for ways to engage our community…Jesus Rocks is part of our recognition that Jesus is moving in peoples’ minds and hearts before we have said anything.
The idea was that those who find one “stop for a second and think about and wonder who Jesus really is” he said.
“The opportunity for the church is to recognise that God is already at work in the lives of people who’ve maybe never thought about Jesus or not thought about Jesus since primary school”.
It was planned by children and families worker Katie Stanton and a team of people painted over 850 pebbles, after which they lost count, with acrylic paint and varnish.
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