1st Bletchley Amicus

This evening, in Sarah’s absence, Steph stepped up to the plate and split us into two teams for Post-It Mosaic making.  We didn’t quite have a free hand – instead we had to design a mosaic on the theme of “Camp“.  After about 15 minutes of head-scratching and whispered suggestions, both teams set to work and produced pretty good efforts.  The first team used “Nemo” for their design (it was a Camp theme a few years ago):

The second team used a beach scene as their inspiration (the theory being that we have good enough weather at Camp to visit the beach – well, maybe sometimes):

The second group were apparently unaware that it was supposed to be a mosaic, and instead took more of a “Tony Hart” approach. The second challenge was to produce a Threadless T-Shirt design. The first team took a very literal approach:

Can you tell what it is yet? It’s a truly “threadless” t-shirt, complete with visible nipples and belly-button fluff. The second team split in two with Nick L and Graham sitting out with their pipes and slippers, whilst Yolanda and Nick Bosdet set to work creating Yolanda’s dream t-shirt:

The t-shirt features an iPod and a speech bubble which reads: “shuffled not stirred”. Nemo won the first challenge, and iPod won the second – not a bad result. [more photos available] Before devotions, we watched a couple of videos. The first, shared by Nick L, was entitled “Trunk Monkey” and was one he’d seen at work in the context of a training event for people in the motor trade

The second video is the new Glass and a Half Full production for Cadbury – truly bizarre:

The last video was produced to show to the 5 & 6 year olds from Drayton Park School who visited the Church as part of their RE curriculum. It is a series of photos of Amicus photos from the last few years – and my headache is testament to the fact that they enjoyed it – especially the very end:

For devotions Yolanda creatively got around her inability to speak in front of people without her head exploding, whilst also linking to the theme of the evening (not the content, but the style of delivery). Using a genius pad, she had written the devotional message on sheetsand tore them off in sequence:

Next Week: Planning for the next couple of months – please come along with at least two things in your head: your favourite activity we’ve done at Amicus already, and a great idea for a new activity.