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Camp

Its been a long time since I’ve had a wee moment to blog. I’ve been AWAY!!! The first week of awayness was a youth camp with Tim (and Kate and Anna and Andy and Tim and Dave). We were in North Yorkshire, and it was hilarious. For a start it was really good fun to be doing youth work again. Working with adults for the last few months has left its mark: I kept using really long words, and I just wanted to have a really intelligent conversation! Was great to work with Tim again.. we had some very classic moments.. ask about the one where I told the kids to get out if they couldn’t be arsed.. the one where we did a multiple choice magazine quiz styley meeting… the one where we put mud and spit on some kids eyes!

All in all a fun week…

I loved getting the chance to do a bit of speaking and story telling.. was telling some stories from the life of David.. surprisingly the kids all LOVED it.. also had a bit of a rant about compassion… has brought home to me how much I love communicating something of God.. love love love..

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Liz said…
Yay - good - I'm glad it all went so well!! :D

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