Friday 18th May 2012

Although a normal meeting, two "new" things happened.

The first was the arrival of an indoor 10 Pin Bowling kit.  Nothing special, but like the real thing, getting the pins down is not as easy as it seems.  Anyway, a bit of fun for the young people.



The Pins Set Up



Some one managed to knock some pins down

 The second new thing was a warm welcome to the Rev. Peter Lowe.  Rev Peter is the Vicar at St. Andrew's Church in Heybridge, St. George's Church in Heybridge Basin and Rector at St. Gile's Church in Langford.

During the God Slot", which looked at who our neighbour is, Peter recalled an incident he had with some of his neighbours when he was based in Portsmouth.

We looked at the story Jesus told about the Samaritan (who were part of the Jewish Nation) help another Jew (who strongly dis-liked the Samaritans) who had been beaten up and robbed.  Jesus taught that we need to treat everyone the same, no matter how difficult it is to love them.

We ended with some games with the parachute.

Friday 11th May 2012

As the weather was kind, dry but a bit windy, we had the trampoline, table tennis and bungee run up outside at the back of the Church.

It was great a welcome a friend of one of the regular RAWR young people to the meeting.

The "God Slot" looked at how we should react when someone is not particularly "nice" towards us. I'm personally not sure what the discussion was about, as I was putting the outdoor equipment away.

By the time the God Slot finished, the weather was not than warm, so we moved back in to the halls. We finished with a game of "It Ball" where every one can join in and attempt to get others out.

Friday 4th May

RAWR met as usual and took the opportunity for some craft work.  Some white clay "Cute Pet" or "Funky Car" money boxes were made available to paint.  The weather was not kind enough to get the large trampoline or bungee run out, so these were postponed until next week.

The "Cute Pets" were favorites, even for the lads (and why not?).  The results are below: -

I'm not saying who painted who, but they do look "cute" and very individual.

For the "God Slot" we looked at another teaching of Jesus on how we live our lives.  last week we looked at whether we should pay taxes (even young people pay VAT on goods they buy), where the money goes and whether it is right to buy pirated, counterfeit or black market goods.

This week the "slot" was lead by Rev Sue and she looked at how we criticise others often without realising that we are just as bad if not worst.  People seem very ready to looks at the faults of others and ignore their own faults.

For the end game, we played "1 on 1 Hockey", which we had not played for some time.