Sunday, July 20, 2008
During Sunday School we talked about ourselves; it included many people being worked hard and stressed. The invited speaker at service was speaking about how only Jesus matters, and how not being successful in the world doesn't matter. I must say that God answers our problems jolly quickly! Labels: church
Today was the dreaded Sunday School Bible Quiz on the book of Acts.
My team [Actors] was supposed to be me, Michelle and Jane, but Jane was sick, so in the end Christopher became our 3rd member. I was kind of stressed about it, because I only sort of studied the night before and a bit of the day before, plus memorising most given verses.
So for the first group + individual round, we managed to get second, and Yue's group was first. One of the individual questions was a fill in the blank:
_________ is found in ___________, for there is no other ____ under heaven given to ___ by which we must be _____.
Obviously if you remember the verse, the answers are Salvation, no one else, name, men, saved.
Chris put something like: Paul, jail, way, us, here. It was SUPER FUNNY. Other funny answers include Louis putting 'Paul ?' in response to "Who wrote the book of Acts?"
Then came the station games. Charades was pretty disastrous, but in my defense, how DO you act out / guess 'Gamaliel the Pharisee', or worse, 'the Ethiopian eunuch'? The Lost Library one was pretty ok, the acting of Peter's vision was quite funny, especially Chris' rendition of being in a trance!
Our help-card was a great help for the Cartographer's Den, because we were able to increase the maximum number of points for naming events at certain places. The pictionary round was quite excellently done, because Chris and Michelle can draw comprehensibly, and I can guess quite well!
The buzzer round was very stressful, with Michelle holding the buzzer, ready to push at our slightest nudge. I got the first question, and I think we both were a bit nerve-wracked at the suddeness of my nudging her. We managed to answer the most questions in that round, probably because Yue was too slow to press :P
The final round was interesting: Easy questions give 3 points, no penalty; Tricky questions give 5 points, -2 for wrong answers, EVIL questions give 7 points, -4 for wrong answers. This applies to the chooser of the question, the rest get 2 points per correct answer. 3 categories: Geography, People, Significant Events.
Lukas' group started out with an EVIL question: Name 13 high-ranking people in Acts. We were the only group to actually write down 13 people, but only 11 were correct, so no points. Most of the others chose Tricky questions, though the groups actually choosing rarely got all the 5 points. Thank goodness we picked an easy Tricky question!
After each group chose one, they decided there wasn't enough time, and the top 3 groups: The Witnesses (108.5 pts), Actors (105.5 pts) and Riot Police (96 pts) were to choose one each. Hongyu's group had no choice but to choose an EVIL question (S): What did they throw overboard on the ship to Rome? No one got all 4 items, though we got the most - 3. What's a 'tackle' anyway?
Then we, with much reluctance and goading, chose EVIL question (P): Name 8 deaths in Acts. We got Herod, Ananias & Sapphira, Stephen, Eutychus and Dorcas at first. Panicking, we managed to remember Judas and James at the last moment, and scored the only 7 points!
Yue's group had no choice but to pick EVIL question (S): State 5 events where God talked to man, excluding angels. No one was able to get 5, so we won! Interestingly, no geography questions were picked. The last unpicked EVIL question (G): List 22 cities mentioned in Acts - infinitely easier than the actual question chosen.
We may have won, but I'm very proud of Yue for doing so well for her first Bible Quiz! Unfortunately she doesn't want to join me with Yan next year...
After that we were rushed off to eat dinner and go for Yan's concert at SCH, with string ensemble, guitar ensemble and handbell choir. Listening to the string ensemble is really like hearing the orchestra in Fantasia, and makes me wish I was in one!
Kudos to the guitar ensemble for playing with so few people! I like their costume. And the conductor-composed song was nice. The handbell choir was good too, a performance catered for this kind of audience.
I'm also very proud of Yan for her first official school string ensemble performance! I have amazing sisters!
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