Fun times

This week at Mapheo I was running a good old game of ladders. You'd think seeing as we've played it a few times before and I had leaders demo at the beginning that everything would go to plan....but naturally it didn't and I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! It was totally hilarious watching the kids enthusiastically jump up when their number was called (or anyone elses number for some of them), or when they were shouted at by their team as they'd missed their number, then follow the course any way except the right way, including a little one heading to the toilets. They were all over the place, often running up the ladder and missing their space to sit down so doing it all over again, invariably going in opposite directions to each other, all the while being laughed at by all the leaders. They really didn't mind that they were getting it wrong everytime and being teased by us which was great. A few months ago many of them would have found the whole experience terrifying. I wish I'd taken a video for you all to enjoy the chaos but sadly I wasn't expecting such hilarity on a Thursday afternoon :-)

Another very funny thing happened this week at youth on Saturday night. Laura was speaking and introducing the topic for the evening. We're going through a series on idols and Saturday was about the worship of self. She said 'tonight we're talking about worshipping me'. The translation came throught 'tonight we're talking about worshipping Laura'! Thankfully she was tuned into the interpretation so picked it up straight away, otherwise we'd have had some very confused teenagers :-)