Holiday Club resources don't come cheap, and you never know quite how many copies of supporting puzzle books you might use, so I always end up erring on the side of caution and buying too many.

No matter that I think I just might use them again, the reality is that I don't.  In just a few years the cultural references are out of date, technology and trends have changed and, whilst the ideas are good, the material is largely obsolete.

So, the surplus resources, DVD and guidebook from this summer's services, based on SU Polar Explorers will soon be winging their way south to a small Home Mission supported church in the north of England...

Why there?  I posted in a Baptist group on social media, offering them to any BUGB Home Mission, BUS Grant-Aided or BUW equivalent church.  The first response was from a BUGB HMF church fairly close to the border... think Hadrian's Terminus and you're pretty much there.

In the next few weeks I will sort through other similar resources and see if they, too can be passed on before they are so outdated as to be risible!  And I might even gaina few inches of shelf-space!!

This Sunday we reach the end of our 'Polar Explorers' series, and the last of our assorted creative options for engagement with the theme.

Our very final activity will see the 'creatives,' 'quizzers', 'contemplatives' and 'actives' all responding together - I hope it proves meaningful for everyone.  There is a hint above - but lest anyone who will be there is reading, fear not there will be no pins, needles or sewing on Sunday (after all, were we good Jews, these would constitute work and be forbidden!!)

Two Sundays ago we made mosaic crosses as our response/prayer after the reflection on the conversion of Saul/Paul (or Titch of Tarsus as I renamed him).

I finally remembered to bring my camera at a time when the hall was empty, so that I could photograph them in situ... they now hang on our noticeboards where they can be enjoyed by any who pause to read them.

We made two.  One is above, the other is here: