The activity at tonight’s family service tonight involved questions about roadsigns (including describing what these signs meant):
We also had to answer questions about the compass (did you know that in the Middle Ages, maps used the compass point ‘East’ (not North) and that the Latin word for this, ‘oriens’, is where our term ‘orienteering’ comes from?) and about cartography (including the difference between maps and charts).
Interspersed with these questions were clues to a treasure hunt, where people had to use a map of the church (imaginatively redesigned to include street names such as Providence Path and Charis Crescent) to find helpful hints for a life with God – a reminder that U-turns are allowed, a reminder that God leads and guides us (Is 30:21) and a framed map with Psalm 19:8 in the Message version reminding us that the life-maps of God are right, leading us to joy.