Food, Fire & Fun

On Friday evening, Young Adults with Open Door church was a semi-formal held at Shona's house. Most of us came well dressed for the non-cocktail cocktail party. We had the usual worship-prayer-talk-small-group session in the first part of the evening. That was later followed by a full spread of hors d'oevres.

Our usual worship leaders and musicians were not present so I ended up leading an all-percussive worship set. I had brought along my new mini-djembe, in the hopes that we were going to do some worship. With that as the lead instrument, I led most of the song accapellas. At one point, we spent about ten minutes with everyone participating in percussion worship with no singing. Everyone used whatever was available: an extra tambourine, clapping, pots and pans, a metal shelving rack. It was pretty light-hearted to begin with and we had some excellent volume with everyone participating together. After a while, though, individuals started to set their focus on God while they were playing and there were some spontaneous songs and some heart-felt worship, in the midst of all the clatter. Gorgeous.

Saturday was another day of activities with my Little, as usual. I took my cousin Chris and my Little's older brother out for the afternoon as well. We saw the Aerial Angels, which I had heard were part of the Fringe Festival that is ending today. They were situated downtown and they performed bullwhip tricks, flame-swallowing tricks and some high-flying aerial acrobatics. Their performance was well-rehearsed and it was full of terrible jokes, which I loved.

The highlight for us was the flame-swallowing. For one trick, they invited a man from the audience that had a shaved head. They put some oil on his head, lit the top of his head on fire with one torch and lit another torch from his head. As another trick, they put torches in their mouths, breathed in the fumes, removed the torch and slowly breathed out the fumes, keeping a flame going right at the top of their own mouths for several seconds. And finally, all three girls stood in line, lit one torch at the one end and put the fire on the first girl's tongue. She then transferred that fire to the second girl's tongue, who transferred it to the third girl's tongue who lit a final torch on fire with it. Now I really know what "tongues of fire" means in the Bible.

Afterwards, we hit LaserQuest for a triple-play games. There were few people there so it basically the four of us against two regular members. My score varied wildly due to the lack of people but generally I was right behind the two members. Nothing like running around with lasers in the fog to have a good time.

Finally, I have a church meeting today at GTA to officially vote on selling our church in preparation for finally building our new church. They'll show us a scale model of the new site, which will be interesting.