Getting to Know You

Tonight we had a dinner together with my mum's church group at one of the aunties'/uncles' houses. There wasn't much food but at least some of our youth group friends were there so we were able to catch up.

We had to go off to youth group straight after anyway! We were going to do something special for youth group  worship tonight. Gabrielle, our newest member, can play the Chinese harp! She let me know at the sleepover last week, and offered to play for us this week so I jumped at the offer!

Meanwhile, Aonghas was meant to go pick Grace up after dropping us off at church. He went home to drop something off but locked the keys in the house! Fortunately our dad came home just in time to let him back in!

Back at church, I was wondering if Gabrielle would be coming, and so tried ringing her. Just as I did, she showed up! She unpacked her instrument and I introduced the first song that we would be singing - What a Friend we have in Jesus. As she started playing, we all weren't sure if she was just playing a different arrangement, and so we tried singing along to it. It was only when Jenny realised that she was playing a different version of the song that we understood why our lyrics didn't fit with what Gabrielle was playing! We listened to Gabrielle perform solo instead which was a treat!

We got to try her harp afterwards which was fun, especially when trying to play pop music on it!

It was activity night, and the last one that Jireh would be here for, so we let him lead it, and he ran a 'Mathex'-style quiz competition with questions based on fellow Oddfellows.

The first round required teams to describe what a randomly-selected photo shown on the large screen was all about. I had chosen some interesting ones for that one, like the following:

Other rounds required teams to come up with lists of names, to answer questions, and the last one was a quick-fire round.

Points were close, with only one point separating teams one and four! Jireh started offering huge amount of points for the last few questions and that saw team one end up winning!