A Good Friday

This morning our church had a service to celebrate/commemorate (however you want to look at it!) Good Friday. It decided later in the week too that after the service our youth group would have pizza for lunch before having youth group in the afternoon rather than at night (yusss!! Bridget Jones' Diary here I come!)

My brothers and I were asked to play our accordion at the service, so last night we had to go to church just to have a quick run through. Jenny, the really good violinist in our youth group was there as well and was going to play together with us. It ended up being a quick rehearsal since we didn't have to play much.

The service this morning was like most other services except that we had to play a few times throughout the service, including during the communion. We finished by playing the same song, 'The Old Rugged Cross' together with the piano and Jenny on violin as the congregation sang.

After the service everyone gathered in the gym to have some morning tea before most people left. Our youth group remained to have some pizza. 

I was leading worship with one of the younger girls in the youth group who was going to play guitar for me, so I had a quick run through with her. Since I'm in charge of youth group worship this year, I'm trying to get more people involved in playing music!

We then went into the library to get on with youth group, starting off with worship. It didn't go too badly. We did a few children's songs with actions before we all watched this children's video about the death of Jesus and discussed aspects of the story and the movie.

We spent the rest of Good Friday at home enjoying ad-free TV, seeing as no shops were open on Good Friday. It was the first time I had watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it was quite...creepy!

You may not believe in God but you've got to agree that ad-free TV is great!