Spirit of Discovery

This last week saw a Christian conference in Plymouth called Spirit of Discovery taking place with 30 churches in Plymouth all getting together and putting an a whole load of events. On Monday evening Jonathan Aitken (the former MP, the one who went to prison for perjury) spoke to an audience of about 500 people, which was really really great. He spoke really well. We also had the Ykids team - a team of youth workers from Liverpool at school, doing the assembly and also taking JAM club as well as being in some lessons with the juniors.
While Argyle were busy losing 5-1 to Sunderland on Tuesday night, I was helping at a kids event, again with the Ykids team, which was well fun, even though it did involve having fruit pastels stuck onto my face. We met two puppets called Ratty and Stinky, who we will meet again tomorrow.
On Wednesday night and last night there were some small events, which I didn’t go to as I was doing a whole load of other stuff (including stuffing my face full of Chinese at a gorgeous Chinese restaurant with some of the guys from my school).
Tonight there was a Christians in Sports event at our local rugby club which was really fun. It was a Question of Sport style quiz, and me and Fi – the monkey I call my housemate- joined up with some guys from church and made a team, and we didn’t do that badly, which was good. We also had a lot of fun in the process which was kind of the point.
All in all, I would say that it has been a very good week, and am looking forward to the final events tomorrow and Sunday, with the final celebration at St Andrew’s on Sunday night.