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Who's Been Here, November
2006
We’ve had many
different groups staying with us in October and
during the start of November, children from Llŷn
& Eifionydd, Youth from Penrhyn Bay, Children
and Youth from Caernarvon, and a group on the
‘Children’s Weekend’. We’ve also had a few
groups visiting us during the evening, and two
schools staying with us for a few days during
the week. So many different events, but it’s
been great welcoming everyone here, and to have
a chance to enjoy while sharing our faith. Here
are two articles written by Rhiân Barrett about
two of the weekends, and a few pictures from the
courses.
Youth weekend
After supper on Friday night, a group of girls
arrived at the college with their youth leader.
Friday evening was action packed with plenty of
entertaining games to play, a film to watch and
then a late night epilogue, looking at how much
God knows and loves us despite all our failings.
Saturday was also a very busy day with two
morning sessions looking at the conversion of
Saul to become Paul, lunch, swimming, craft and
another session before heading home Saturday
evening. They may have been a small group, here
for a shorter weekend than normal, but it was
still good fun and worthwhile.
Children’s weekend
We welcomed a faithful group of children and
their leader from Holywell for this weekend,
looking at the theme “What’s in a name?” On the
Friday evening we had fun looking at the meaning
behind our names and the names of people in the
Bible, and then the meaning behind the name
‘Jesus’. We played lots of games later on in the
evening and then bedtime. During the Saturday
sessions we looked at different names of Jesus
and what they mean for us: The Son of God, and
then Jesus the Saviour. Late in the morning the
children worked together in pairs to make a
collage of the story we had looked at in the
first session: Jesus walking on the water. After
lunch we went swimming and many of the children
did try to walk on the water, but discovered
that they could not.
In the evening we had a session followed by “The
Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe”. After the film there was an epilogue
to re-cap on what we had learnt and to see how
different parts of Aslan’s life illustrate what
Jesus did. On Sunday morning we had a session to
finish and then it was time to say good bye
until next time!
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