Drama

From kid's time pirate to Narnian arisocratic lord the last few weeks have seemed to be filled with drama. However the real drama has come from a surprising source. Recently, in the last month or so Malcolm, Greg and I have been interested in trying to apply for the Ten Gables flats with a group of people. At first Greg approached me and said he thought God was telling him to move in with a flat of people. Amazingly that same day when I mentioned to Malcolm that I was thinking about applying for Ten Gables he said he had had the same idea on his mind. He told me that ever since the sermon Trev gave a month ago on building a youth community (as an alternative to the hall/drinking culture) that he had been keen to try and get some DCBC people into the flats. Over the next couple of weeks I figured Mal and Greg had been constantly communicating between each other because their ideas were so similar. Turns out they hadn't (which could be seen as evidence of God at work). Anyway, a couple of weeks later Mal thought the best way to organise to get people together would be to announce it in church that he had a plan to get people together into the Ten Gables flat. Naturally we got some responses but what we weren't expecting was a wave of criticism. Turns out the current occupants of Ten Gables thought they were being kicked out and that the church was backing a group of 15 DCBCers to move into Ten Gables. This was far from the truth. In fact, at the end of a year all residents and wannabe flatters have to apply to make the system fair. I think the current occupants, who consists of people from a range of different churches from around Dunners, figured the DCBC admin was flexing its muscles and booting people out when in actual fact our group has to apply in flats of five anyway so it was quite the contrary and completely fair. Anyway, there's apparently been plenty of criticism of DCBC goers and some of us in general and poor old Dave Lawrie has copped a lot of flack for it all. So now we're just applying and hoping to get in so we can run a home group and have the flats as a social drop in centre nice and close to church. If it doesn't work out though we'll obviously try and take it somewhere else. Unfortunately that's been causing more problems; trying to find a place if we don't get in. Anyway, it's up to God now. We'll just have to pray this is what he wants.


As a side note here's some photos from my recent activity as a pirate in Orbit (kid's time) and our fun with swords in Prince Caspian.