The Noise

Wow, what a weekend!
We started on Friday evening with T shirt painting and decorating. Just some social time together to help gel the group (as we had pathfinders and Holy Smoke mixing together). Was good fun, we had 14 kids plus leaders. Had some great designs done by the younger kids.
Saturday morning started bright and early (8am for me!) with a free car wash in our front car park. We had a lot of fun... got very wet (in fact in the evening service Dani told the congregation that the highlight of the weekend for her was me getting splashed and looking like i'd wet myself!) It was great to have the opportunity to share with people, why we are doing this for free. People wanted to redress the balance, to pay us back. It meant we were able give a reason for the hope that we have.
We spent the afternoon making cards and posies of flowers to give to the congregation, so that they can go out and bless their friends and neighbours, enabled by the teenagers. It was lovely to get everyone together to make the cards, and to see everyone being creative.
Yesterday morning was the family service, based on Esther (that we studied on the weekend away.), it went well, all the kids who were involved did really well. Alison did brilliantly with her dramatic telling of the story... 10 chapters of the Bible in 6 mins! My sermon went well too.
In the afternoon we ran a tea dance. Wow! Everyone enjoyed it sooo much! Everyone (eventually) got involved and had a go. Highlight has to be Biddy (who is in a wheelchair) dancing with Ash (with a little help from me!)
The evening was the perfect end to the perfect weekend. The service was great, had no negative comments at all. It all slotted together perfectly and the drama was brilliant - infant school show and tell anyone?! Again my sermon went well and fitted well into the service. Random acts of kindness... how can you bless someone in a way that arent expecting? To show God's love?