“JONAH-MAN JAZZ!”?

It was the end of term for the ‘IGNITE!’ youngsters at the Parish Church Rooms last Friday (these are sessions run jointly by Vicar Revd Margaret Young and Andrew Neville, on Friday afternoons after school).

The theme for this term had been the story of Jonah and the Whale, so, to celebrate, they put on a show for their friends and families to demonstrate what they had been doing; this was a musical version of the story, using songs interspersed with narration, accompanied by Margaret on the piano. It started with God being displeased with Nineveh, which was a “city of sin, with jazzin’ and jivin’ making a terrible din”…” So God commissioned the righteous Jonah to tell the people the error of their ways….