The Week that was...
It has been two weeks now since I 'retired'; well, tried to. I ended up working 4 days this week, at least I had a victory over an XServe that was being quite cantankerous on Friday. Friday night at the teen drop in centre was something else. We had an 8 feet wide "slip-n-slide" and there must've been 20 of the kids using it, they had a ball and got covered in grass and mud. A friend Monica spoke to the kids during the meal, and did a really great job of making Jesus accessible to them. She was able to keep these kids, who have no church background, quiet for a good 10 to 15 minutes as she explained to them just what He did, and what it means. Then we had a visit from a few lads who had been banned from the place looking for some of the boys we had inside; Mike (our Pastor) was flat out trying to keep the boys apart, and someone came and got me, but by the time I got to them there were punches flying... To the credit of one of the lads who had previously started o...