Sunday, July 19, 2009

Glaslough and Cssm

We are here sitting in the computer room in Hillside church at CSSM waiting for our lunch. CSSM doesn't start until tomorrow but we arrived yesterday to start with setting up etc.
We know we'll have a deadly time here but we miss Glaslough :(
Glaslough started out with Me, Chrisi and Rachel road tripping it down to Monaghan with a bitta Avril Lavinge playing in the car and lots of laughter. We arrived at BallyAlbany but everyone was at the other church and so we couldnt get in...so we called up to this woman's house to ask for Daniel to get keys but the woman didn't even answer her door, she spoke to us through the door (we don't think she liked us very much) so we went away!
We arrived up to the place where the camp was being held and met the team! All from Northern Ireland but I fit in perfectly with my AMAZING immitation of a Northern accent and Chrisi was grand because she picks up accents after 3 seconds.
We set the place up and had some tea...we then went back to BallyAlbany and there was a chill out room upstairs with....AIR HOCKEY! so of course Rachel and I ran straight to the table and starting playing...we got a bit too into it, there was sweating and injuries and Rachel let out her true feelings towards me "Your a vicious cow and i hate you"...she loves me really, i hope!
Every night we had a team meeting where there was a "hot seat" and people gave there testimonies which was deadly because it allowed us to get to know each other better and see how God had worked and is at work in other's lives.
Camp started on the Monday and all the kids came...i was working with 4-5 year olds (so cuuutee!!) and Chrisi was with the uber cool 10-12s!
We sang amazing songs and did drama's and games...the best game was the lace's game which involved eating lace's (the sweets) really fast and then at the end shouting either "boys are better than girls" or "girls are better than boys" and we all know the second statement is the right one!
The kids were awesome, so much fun and such a laugh. We played sports with them in the afternoon and we also did crafts.
At night Chrisi, Jamie, Jason, Nelly and I stayed back to hang with the teens or "the teen" as only one came but we had such a laugh playing basketball and splash and the hand game (so addictive).
God was so at work all week, it was amazing. He gave us the energy and the strength needed and we just relied on him. The team were so lovely and we made some friends for life.
Oh and we went swimming on the first day which was a bit tramatic with boys in white shorts but we shall say no more about that.
We're excited for CSSM starting tomorrow and everyone seems really nice here too. Keep us in your prayers to just be full of energy and enthusiasm with the kids and to just really glorify God through all we do.
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Love the girls xxx

1 comment:

  1. Great to hear you guys are doing well, I think it's always miraculous how God gives us the energy to survive all these crazy activities! How does one play "The hand game"?

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