Jesus you’re my superhero

So right after our prophetic evangelism on the streets, we had a school social and the theme of this social?... Superheroes!!

So everyone in the school dressed up as a superhero, it was an absolute hoot. At 5pm we all assembled in the fire hall (the hall in the SoM building) and got the hilarious chance of helping with announcements.

Each week at TACF there are video announcements made. These announcements are then given to each of the 7 churches and get played along side of the normal announcements made by each church. These announcements get funnier and funnier each week. The guy that does the filming and directing for them is a guy in the marketing department called Mark who is originally from Sheffield!

So anyway the announcements were following 'Announcement Girl' as she was teaching at the superhero school. So we were prominently featured learning about the up and coming encounter weekends, how to throw cartoon punches and slow motion fight.

I think all of the announcements are up on the web so you can check them out at http://www.tacfvideos.com/. And it's "Leadership in Action". You can see me a bit, but I have a mask on so you would never know it was me!! MWAHAHAHAAAAA

So yeah, I was Super Sixties Girl. The name sucked I know, but my costume was amazing. I am not one for dressing up normally and was stressing a bit about this, but the day before I found some amazing shoes and a sparkly dress and I was away. I actually didn't get anyone to take a picture of me with my camera so I can't stick a photo up at the moment. Those of you on facebook should be able to see a couple though. My shoes though are platform heals and make me about 4 inches taller (no joking). My dress was a very pale pink sequin covered miniskirt dress which I wore over leggings of course and I had a green cape and black eye mask. I was so chuffed with myself.

We had some amazing costumes; Dan- a smurf (OK so there wasn't as much of Dan's costume as everyone else's- more blue paint than anything else), Shawn- Jesus (best superhero really), Jonathan- Aqua man, Candice – The Super Sleeper, Amy- The Invisible Girl, Otis and Jon- Jedi knights, Team Mozambique- The Power Rangers

My favourite though was Faith who was one of a couple of Super Grannies, but she was so well made up that it was very hard to recognise her. It took me a good few seconds to work out who was under the big pile of tea towels.

The prize for best entrance though goes to the boys from 207. We were halfway through filming the announcements when we heard this Spanish guitar starting up and suddenly in runs the Mask of Zorro pursued by two musketeers, each with big hats and coat hanger swords. The trio (Johnatas, Mark and Andy, with Justin on the Guitar) fought their way round the whole room, up onto the pool table and everything. It was fantastic.

So we all had dinner and then, in our outreach teams, we had to do a photo scavenger hunt. Basically we had a list of tasks and each task was worth a certain number of points. Each of these tasks required either a photo or a video of the task being performed.
The tasks included
• Take a photo with a Tim Horton's staff member
• Take a photo of the whole team up a tree
• Take a photo of the whole team with a dead animal (though you can't kill it yourself)
• Take a photo of the whole team with hairnets on and with a worker at the bread factory
• Get a video of one of the team singing to a stranger
• Get a video of one of your team break dancing on a box

So we all traipsed along the highway in our costumes getting stares and honks from the passing motorists. It's amazing how many people were willing to smile and wave when a crowd of superheroes waves at them. It was a hoot. For peace of mind for all of you worried souls, I did change my shoes before heading out. So with our efficient German leading the way (did you know that if you select very carefully which tasks you perform at which time you can maximise what can get done?) we went through and did quite a lot of the tasks on the list, including filming Otis (bless him) snorting Wasabi through a straw! Thankfully he only got a tiny bit, but even so he was reeling from it.

Once everyone was back we all gathered and watched all of the pictures and videos on the big screen, while totting up the points. We ended up coming in 3rd which was pretty good really. But at the end of the day it was a hilarious fun evening and a good old team bonding experience! lol