Playscemes and stuff

I'm currently writing this sitting in the control room in the gateway waiting for the wedding for my friends Matt and Claire to begin. I was kind of thrust into the deep end when he asked me to do the visuals for his wedding as I have never done it for a service before. Youth groups yes, but youthgroups are easy. Kids are far less demanding, if you muck it up then a friday night has a slight hitch. If I muck it up today it's a much bigger deal.

Well anyway.

The last two weeks I have been working in Westfield school helping to run a playsceme for 8 - 16 year olds, although in actuality, the oldest was only 13. Really cool though. We've played games, sport, made things, it was good fun, if a little draining at times, and I got paid for it as well.

And You know, sometimes you can be in a situation and not know why you're there. As in,. this really dosen't seem like a big part of God's Great Plan. And you get to the end and nothing seems to have happened. Then you go out for the final team meal and the whole week seems worthwhile, if only you didn't have to go through the fortnight of working beforehand. The relationships the Lydia and I built up during our time at 'Active Westfield' enabled us to have the most amazing conversation, the kind of which I don't think I've had all year. We were able to share our faith in an open and powerful way, and looking back at it, we know that God was with us all the way through it.

And right now, I have a wedding to visualise.