My Church home group meets at Tim and Helen’s house every wednesday night, and since I started going to it I’ve been to two social do’s at their house. The first one was for Dan’s birthday about a month ago, and they hired sumo wrestling suits (complete with a plastic matt with a ring on it to fight in). Sumo wrestling in a suit thats twice the size of yourself is both brilliant fun and extremely difficult, that was an excellent day!
Today it was Tim’s birthday, and also the first England game of the world cup. It also happens to be the summer time, and the weather has been beautiful today. This combination resulted in watching the England game, playing some football, having a BBQ, watching another football game (Trinidad and Tabago vs. Sweden), playing some more football, and finally crashing out for a little while before walking home.
I love how friendly everyone is, it’s been so amazing to be welcoming wholeheartedly into the group and involving in everything thats been happening. Whether that be the home group meetings on wednesdays where we get to spend time together in worship and exploring God’s word, or at social events like today, or at Church catching up after the service.
I’m so glad that I’m at Church in the Community Leicester, and it’s been great to gradually get more involved in things. Once term is over at the end of June I’m going to start helping out with the youth work as well, something I’m really looking forward to. And I plan on having people round lots during the summer and generally trying to be a little more sociable with people (read: generous). It’s days like this that make me realise just how blessed I am with my Church life.