We'll be back for the new term on Sunday 6th January at 7.30pm as usual.
Most of you should remember that we wrote out our New Year's Resolutions last January. We'll be opening those back up (if we can get through Kyle's over-zealous efforts with the tape) and seeing how well we did at keeping them in 2007.
If you've any ideas of topics you'd like to look at this term, or if you fancy leading a section of an evening yourself, get blogging!
Tonight we had two Batmans, a Zorro, three PowerPuff Girls, two Spidermen, Super Girl, Super Ted and Super Gran and Cat Woman. Not quite following the brief, we also were blessed with Barney Rubble, a nun, a rabbit, James Bond and someone back to front. After giving out our Secret Santa presents we played Pass-the-Parcel, watched some dances and played the super-power game (loser = Alex). Thanks to Pat and Mandy for the lovely food. See you all on January 6th if not before. The programme of topics for next term is currently being worked out; if there is anything you would like us to cover leave a note in the comments.
Well, the decorations are up, the choccy fingers are bought, the pass the parcel (with dares) is all wrapped and ready to go and Andy has his furry pants at the ready...Now all we need are some superheroes, armed with their Secret Santa pressies!
See you all Sunday night! Usual time, 7.30pm to 9pm (but you girlies feel free to come a bit earlier to get yourselves made up)
p.s Don't think you can't come if you don't want to dress up - "it doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there..." (You're all too young to know what that song is, aren't you?)
We wondered tonight about exactly where God is - is he up in the clouds, outside the universe, everywhere at once, inside people? If we aim our prayers upwards, where do people in Australia aim theirs? At least one country has got it wrong! And what if you live on the equator... does God follow you round, like a geostationary satellite?
Laura had the great idea that churches should be shaped like the Kerplunk game. Instead of having steeples that make you think that God is above you in the sky, churches should point in all directions at once to make you realise that he is everywhere. And the spikes also point inwards - we should hopefully find God inside the church too, perhaps in the people who go there. Not an easy question to come up with concrete answers to this week.
This evening, on Advent Sunday, we thought about waiting. We remembered stories in the Bible where people had to wait for ages - Abram and Sarai's promised son, Jesus' wait until his thirties before he began his ministry and the Israelites wandering in the desert for forty years before entering the promised land. We then thought about waiting for Jesus; how people had to wait hundreds of years for the coming of the Messiah prophesied by Isaiah. It puts waiting a month for Christmas into perspective.
We then thought about waiting for Jesus to come again, when the whole Earth will know him and kneel before him. We need to be prepared so that we aren't caught out if he comes back suddenly. We wondered what we would do differently if we knew that Jesus would come back this evening...
