A silly, sticky Christmas-themed game! Numbers: Up to around 10 at a time. Suitable for: Ages 8 and upwards. Preparation time: 5 minutes. Venue: A large room or small hall. Safety First: The game involves putting a sticky product on facial skin. Check with young people if they have any allergies or skin irritations before they take part. Equipment needed: A sticky spread like honey, jam or chocolate spread. Marshmallow spread can work well ...

Sorry about the lack of information up on the blog this past week, I've been a bit pre-occupied! Due to some complications, Kirsty was induced nearly 3 weeks early which suddenly changed all our Christmas plans! Then after 3 days of induction and 20 hours of labour ending in a c-section, our daughter Hope Isabelle Jolly was born at 9:48am Christmas Morning! We had no idea if the baby was a boy or girl and are overjoyed at how gorgeous and amazing ...

I'm finishing wrapping up the presents in front of the fire and Kirsty is making her world-famous Brownies in the kitchen. I've been asked to give the all-age Christmas address at church tomorrow morning so am putting the finishing touches on what I plan to say. Something about Chocolate Sprouts I think! Enjoy your day tomorrow and I pray that you experience something of the hope that Jesus brings. Merry Christmas ...

Last Sunday we ran a joint youth event with St Margaret's Angmering and St Peter & St Paul's Rustington called iWorship. The purpose was to hang out, have a meal and worship together allowing a chance for the youth to get to know young Christians from the other churches. It was a great event and we had a lot of fun together. During ...

Last week I took a 15 minute assembly for Year 7 in Secondary School on the theme of Poverty. This session was only meant as a basic introduction to the theme, so is deliberately lightweight but is designed to get the children thinking about their own personal response to poverty this Christmas. This assembly plan will also be posted on the schoolswork.co.uk website as a resource, so feel free to use and adapt it for your own schools work. As the ...

Here's a couple of the most unique and impressive gifts I was given this year: I Am Plastic. A great coffee table book about the designer toy explosion. A really cool gift bought for me by my ever-loving wife! Check out kidrobot for more of the same. Zounds. Given to us by Ben & Sam, this is an amazing toy/tool/instrument thing that loops samples when you place the shaped pieces onto one of the 3 glowing dots. It's the kind of technology that 60's ...

Hanging canvas Originally uploaded by bobweasel. This is the main gift that i designed Kirsty for Christmas, taking pride of place in our front room! Click back to Flickr for the original design. I hope you all had a great day with family and friends. ...

Dominant Male Orang Utan Originally uploaded by bobweasel. Add notes to your flickr photos this Christmas and you can end up with some fun results! Just type "ho ho ho hat" or "ho ho ho beard" and you'll achieve these Santa themed additions right there on your photos! Click the Orang Utan for a demonstration! ...

Seeing as it's nearly Christmas, here's a great cartoon to get you in the spirit. (click to enlarge) ht to YouthGuyEvan ...

one of these (although I don't think Kirsty would allow it)! How cool! ...