Together - again!
Well much of this weekend was taken up by the Together event we've been planning for a while with James, Lou and Gaz. Friday night was spent decorating the chapel and getting very annoyed by the lack of power points in said venue, most of them being unreachable among the rafters, so we couldn't put up a load of fairy lights as planned. However Lou and I did have fun draping lots of funky material round the chapel and playing with the lights. :o) Little things. The band rehearsed and we had a good pray.
So Saturday, Tim went up early to set up/rehearse and I took the kids up about an hour early to set up the common room for the tea. It went brilliantly (imho, lol), we had a good turnout and lots of positive feedback. God turned up! The band were marvellous and really rocked, the kids were well involved, dancing, running round madly etc, and even the adults got in there with the actions etc. Bit in the middle was a kind of prayer activity where the kids prayed for their parents and vice versa, they were fantastic and really got into it, amazing to see. Everyone then wrote prayers, stuck them in a balloon and had fun batting the balloons around (and bursting them ;o)) We had other stuff, game etc, and lots of bouncy songs. Especially loved the fiddle solo in Come on and Dance. Tim and i were doing the actions at the front and endeavouring to be bouncy all the way through and I have not felt so completely exhausted in a loooong time. Too much exercise for me!! Enjoyed it lots though. Tabitha was in heaven, just her thing, and asked when the next one was. :o) Nathaniel asked why he wasn't going to his group. (he loves his butterflies group on a Thursday night.)
All in all couldn't have gone better, I think, and certainly looking to making it a regular thing, there seems a lot of interest in that, so hopefully termly, we shall see.
Spent Sunday winding down, but still completely creamed today, not quite well yet so must take it easy over the next week - next week will be manic with kids Christmas plays, working a couple of mornings, toddlers Christmas party, college Christmas ball, and not to mention trying to finish shopping etc. aaagh!!
So Saturday, Tim went up early to set up/rehearse and I took the kids up about an hour early to set up the common room for the tea. It went brilliantly (imho, lol), we had a good turnout and lots of positive feedback. God turned up! The band were marvellous and really rocked, the kids were well involved, dancing, running round madly etc, and even the adults got in there with the actions etc. Bit in the middle was a kind of prayer activity where the kids prayed for their parents and vice versa, they were fantastic and really got into it, amazing to see. Everyone then wrote prayers, stuck them in a balloon and had fun batting the balloons around (and bursting them ;o)) We had other stuff, game etc, and lots of bouncy songs. Especially loved the fiddle solo in Come on and Dance. Tim and i were doing the actions at the front and endeavouring to be bouncy all the way through and I have not felt so completely exhausted in a loooong time. Too much exercise for me!! Enjoyed it lots though. Tabitha was in heaven, just her thing, and asked when the next one was. :o) Nathaniel asked why he wasn't going to his group. (he loves his butterflies group on a Thursday night.)
All in all couldn't have gone better, I think, and certainly looking to making it a regular thing, there seems a lot of interest in that, so hopefully termly, we shall see.
Spent Sunday winding down, but still completely creamed today, not quite well yet so must take it easy over the next week - next week will be manic with kids Christmas plays, working a couple of mornings, toddlers Christmas party, college Christmas ball, and not to mention trying to finish shopping etc. aaagh!!
posted by Carter Clan at 9:16 pm
2 Comments:
Sounds fantastic, Liz (and everyone!) - well done :o)
Sounds very cool!!
Hope you guys are doing OK? And.. errr.. any chance I can get a glance at your pieces on Bap and euc??
Bless you all- JUDE
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