Samewise: Fun house

Every now and again children’s ministry throws you a curve ball. I’m not talking about the usual stuff that disrupts, like the family who always arrive once you’ve started a key activity or the unreliable nature of attendance which means you really have no way to know how many children will come and what age they are likely to be. Over time we become pretty adept at making last-minute tweaks to accommodate this stuff but still every now again something new happens. I had a new one recently when I arrived on a Sunday morning to set the rooms up, running late as ever, to discover that all the usual furniture was gone and had been replaced with a horseshoe shape of non-stackable chairs centred around a flip chart. Clearly there was a conference due in on Monday morning and the centre we hire for meetings had decided that they wanted to get everything ready on Friday and had forgotten we exist!