Caught off guard
Last evening our Life group (small group) gathered in another church's parking lot to go through the Compassion International experience tent. Normally our life group members take turns every Monday evening hosting a time of worship and discussion of the Word hinged on the previous sunday's sermon during which the kids head to another room for their own time in the Word with some kind of activity. However we decided to check out the Compassion Experience since a couple of families in our group sponsor Compassion kids. It is a tented immersive event where you walk through a trailer made up into a series of rooms that represent someone's life somewhere in the world. You put on headphones and carry an ipod preprogrammed with a story of a child's life that was profoundly changed by Compassion sponsorship. It is brilliantly put together and packs up easily in an eighteen wheeler trailer that moves the experience from place to place. After all in our group arrive