Vocations

Stayed up till abouy 1:30 this morning helping Marcus, Chris, Jono and Giant set up the church sanctuary for a the school group that's here today. The education team are trying to get 170 year 12 students to think about vocation, and the sanctuary's been set up as a kind of reflection area.
Theres different things set up in different areas of the church, like an area full of ticking clocks and egg-timers, for a reflection on time.

There's also a coffin, to help studnets think about the kind of legacy they wnat to leave when they die. And there's a TV playing bits from The Simpsons, the episodes where Marge paints Mr Burns's picture, and the one where Lisa and Bart have to do a test to work out what kind of career best suits them.
And there are the graffiti towers. We set up some ladders...

...covered them with cardboard...

...and then covered them with paper, so the students can draw and paint stuff on them, representing the different voices that are directing them in regards to how they choose to use their lives. With the really tall one, we threw a box up onto the top of the ladder, to try and cover the top...

...which made it look kind of like a tyrannosaurus, or a siege tower. We considered making a big photocopy of Giant's face to go on the front of the box. We tried to get a sheet over the top of the box, so all the carboard would be covered, but we weren't able to, so we ended up taking the box down, and just putting the sheet over the top.