Messy Church Picnic

This afternoon Sarah and I along with the family went over to Heversham at the invitation of Colin Honour to help celebrate their Church's Messy Church first birthday.  We had a great time.  It started with a wonderful welcome from the events host Linda, it felt as if we were old friends had come round for the afternoon.  We set up in the garden looking out across the bay and then people started to arrive at around 4pm.  At about half past I did a short magic show with a mix of secular type tricks for the children moving towards some gospel routines which I involved the adults with.  This was followed by tea then it did start to rain a bit so plastic sheets came out to cover the electric equipment then at around 5:20 we did a sketch with Gary which the children thought was funny.  We did the one about what is in the Bible and Sarah explains to Gary that he should read it and not stand on it as he was at the time.  I followed this up with a very quick gospel routine about our sins being taken away and finished with the 4 points.  All in all it was a good day and very enjoyable too.