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Galway have decided against going head-to-head with Camp and Ted and have changed their GO Team to:

Saturday 28th June – Saturday 5th July. (Camp is 5th-12th July).

And on the subject of GO teams, there haven’t been very many applications so far, so if you are planning on going on a team could you please apply soon. The deadline for applications is Saturday 19th April. And if you’re not planning on going on a team could you please apply soon anyway.

And ‘G’ is the only way to describe it. Although due to an inspired decision to write the Messenger report in the minibus on the way to the airport on the way home (after having initially been up for writing it as we went along), most of the craic should actually make it into the Messenger. However, in the intervening few years (make those jokes while you can people, their time is nearly over!) here’s a few snaps and if I can remember any of the stuff we thought was too extreme for the Messenger I’ll throw that in too!

Paul took some well deserved time off to join up with the team

Some of the locals at the bowling

Action shot

A PB of 127

Ulsterville Gardens on Tour 2008. They saw Pancakes at Belfast City on the way home

Stace

Evie and Lainey

Plenty of ‘Oh!’-ing went on throughout the team

Claire, Hayley, Emma…and Joel trying to look intelligent :-P

I would have been loved to have been there when either Debbie or Hayley went up to Airdrie’s latest American arrivals and said “Hi. I’m homeschooled too!”

Cephas – kept us all fed

George conversing with Paul

Louise and Debbie

A rare time of schooling

David

Megan and Hayley

Sam

The lads finishing off the pudding

Friday night: games in the church

Catchwell

Me and Stevie

Emma and Lorna

Paul and Stacey

The evening was rounded off with a Mr. Kebab of course, though as Carla has pointed out Paul ruined his by putting mayo on it…

After finishing off the leaflets we were doing (only did about 7,000 cos we were knocking – leaving the rest for the yanks), we went to Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon for a Covenanter Tour and tea. Once Beth finally found the car park that is…

By this point, some of the group had decided they’d rather talk to Beulah and Carol, who we met at Greyfriars

We sent Conor in to look for Walker

Pining for Bapman

Part of the prayer meeting on Sunday morning

Distributors and helpers

Team photo

Totally amazing like. Once again. No Charles Eleven children’s address this time, although SAQ asked ‘What is love?’ and young Joshua said ‘When you don’t get your own way all the time’. Cue much awwww-ing and laughter!!

Well, just wanted to use that title! Last weekend would have been the P&R weekend but for various reasons it didn’t happen. Hopefully it will be back bigger and better than ever next year! Don’t cry Beth!

“I was slowing down but it started speeding up!”

Spose this is a good enough excuse for David McM not turning up at football the other week:

(This is with the car off and the keys in his hand!! His turbo got stuck on apparently)

Driscoll on Dating

Last ever Tuesday Night @ the Crescent

Ted spoke last week at what it turns out was the second last ever Tuesday Night at the Crescent. The last one ever is tomorrow night. They’re pulling the plug cos of lack of numbers – there was about 40 there last week. 15 years ago there woulda been 200. It didn’t realise quite what a NI institution it was. Anyway, opportunity for Shaftesbury I reckon…

Strob and some randomer at TNC back in the day

Another funny video

While I’m at it. The following is David Duly’s brother’s mate running at a tennis net and forgetting to jump:

Driscoll on Congregationalism

“As I studied the Bible, I found more warrant for a church led by unicorns than by majority vote.” Confessions of a Reformission Rev, p. 103.