29th Jan 2012

As the kitchen at the Church is still being refurbished, which also meant that some of the rooms were unusable, Pioneers met at the Manse (Minister's house).  Due to it being one of the young people's 17th birthday, a special selection of biscuits were offered around.

Once the biscuits were being eaten (and the Minister had left us some anyway), we looked at the theme of "knives", which had been chosen by them.

The Bible story we looked at was the arrest of Jesus and one of the followers cutting off the ear of a slave.  We felt that this was a natural reaction to events that were not fully understood (as we now know) and the intimidation of the armed crowd.

We discussed how violence leads to violence and how walking away is the better option.  We read stories from a newspaper about knife crime.  To help remember the message, they were given a small bookmark to colour in.



Christmas Event 2011

The Christmas Event for Pioneers took place on Jan 26th when 9 young people had an evening of 10 Pin Bowling and a Buffet Chinese Meal.  It was a great evening which saw a number of bowling styles, "spares" and "strikes".  The young people mixed well, celebrating each "spare" or"strike" and not really worrying about the scores.

One of the young people, who loves lyche, managed to get the other 8 to have a taste.  I think she suceeded.

The young people made a contribution to the cost of the evening, with a subsidsy from the Church. The pictures below reflect the evening.

"Eyeing" up for a strike?

"You dancing or bowling?"

"It's a goal, opps sorry, It's a strike!"

"I wonder if the ball will reach the pins?"

8th Jan 2012

For the first meeting of the New Year, the theme was "Xylophones", which was chosen by them.

We started by trying to work out which sport a position came from.  For example, "Silly Mid Off" is from cricket.

We then listened to a tune played on a guitar (one of the members of the congregation helped out) all on the same note.  None of us got it right.

We then looked at a reading from 1 Corinthians, were Paul talks about church life and how different skills are needed.  The we listened to another tune, this time with many notes and chords.  This was much better.

As there was building work going on at the Church, we meet round the Manse.  Rev Sue left some sweets out (all were eaten) along with a number of biscuits.