G.i.g.a.t.t. In Action (on YouTube)!

Ladies and Gentlemen (echo, echo, echo).  We now present to you…the Gigatt Small Group!!!  Enjoy this short video.

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The Small Group Emporium :)

Today was the first ever Small Group Festival – a convergence of all the 60 or so small groups of Angelus Temple. Finally, the small group ministry gets the right amount of attention that it deserves. Small groups are definitely the arms of the body of Christ – reaching out to people in deeper ways, and getting them plugged in. Angelus Temple calls itself the church that never sleeps, and rightfully so. A small group goes past the sunday sermon and forms relationships, encourages involvement, and ultimately the use of one’s god’s given gifts.

The Creative Arts group was not without pressure to create the best group board. Duh, we’re supposed to be THE creative people of the ministry! It would just be a funny (for them, not for us) oxymoron if the creative small group had an uncreative booth. We worked our butt off and started cutting out the sun (whose rays would splash out the different creative arts) on Saturday, continued the creative work on Tuesday, and brought out our baking bowls yesterday. The presentation was a creation story inspired masterpiece — with the sun as the center, some soil and rocks showing the earth, a couple of easels holding up painted masterpieces from prior events, a booklet of the writing we created together, a powerpoint presentation showing the creative small group at various poses in various events, and of course, the star of the feast — the caramel bars that are literally to DIE for. We were right next to the culinary group — which, in all fairness, got a lot of attention. We competed well – it’s hard to compete with food!

We landed third place for presentation. I was cheering my heart out — there were about sixty groups there, and third place is better than no place in my opinion. Our dear leader, Quoleshna wasn’t so happy with the results. After all, we are creativity. We should have won top 1 for creativity!  Everybody’s a winner though — our sign up sheet was full, with a promise of more members and more participation.  Surprisingly, our famous caramel bars did not win the recognition of best dessert.   (Some people simply don’t know what they’ve tasted.) These bars have a rich history of tastiness and a throng of satisfied followers. Why it didn’t win? I don’t understand.

It was a big small group festival — great food, great fun, a great chance to be creative, tons of people and a worthwhile time.  Hopefully, we’ll see new members and amazing upheavals of talent this year.