Hoorah for church!

Tonight it was our monthly ‘Celebration’ in church… which basically involves eating a meal together, all-age worship, some prayer and a short piece of teaching or something else. Tonight we had some very tasty food and we were thinking a bit about how we are all part of the body of Christ. I had added to and modified a short skit that I found online, and I got a few of our kids to act it out. I had also created big a cardboard eye, hand, foot and heart for the thespians to wear to identify who they were to the audience. And it worked really well! I was really happy with it, because I had been quite nervous about how it was going to work out. Drama in church is usually pretty aweful, so I was really really chuffed that it worked out well! Worship was good too, and some of the teenagers who usually come in for the food but then leave, actually hung around too. And there were quite a few people who joined us for the first time, which was really brilliant. It is good to be surprised like that sometimes, to not expect that it will be anyone except for the usual suspects (!), and then actually have quite a few new faces. It was just great. Ah, it was brilliant, a special time.