Catalyst

So I'm off in about twenty, thirty minutes, but I've rushed up here to squeeze in a post tonight.  To sum up the day: windsurfing is hard and sometimes I'm getting it, sometimes I'm not.
Right.  the first Sunday I was down here I went to Cowes Baptist Church.  It was an older congregation and they used what was called a "Baptist Hymnbook"; it hadn't crossed my mind before that Baptists would EVER have hymnbooks, but I took it as normal and duly held onto it for dear life so as not to lose it somehow.  They had no lead singer, just a piano and so there was a cacophony of voices in the songs, sung to slightly different tunes and tempos, but it was homely and caused me to smile once or twice, it didn't really bother me.  Just before the service began I was talking with this guy who turned out to be the pastor.  He was extremely nice (as they all are) and told me about different youth things going on.  He even said that there was a large youth group-church-thing in Newport which I should go to see - I haven't, I decided to stick with Cowes Baptist, as I think it's far more important that the people are nice than the way or worship is what I'm used to.  And it is also good not to veer away from older Christians just because I'm young, in fact I should probably be veering towards them. 
As an extra point, I am told that it is a very different kind of service in the morning.  There are singers, drums piano, and - I'm guessing - guitars as well.  Also there are far more people (100-ish) and there are young people and children.  Just so you don't think I've landed in a church stuck in the past.  they are excellent people.
So it ended up with him saying he'd give the youth worker my number and tell him to get in contact with me.  This was duly done and I found out from the youth worker that there was this youth event called Catalyst happening this Friday (today).  He even offered to organise a lift for me (I took the offer)  As far as I can work out it is the equivalent of Praise Night, but I'll tell you what it's like tomorrow.  Anyhow, I'm excited to go see some Christians my own age here and meet up and have a chat.  Should all be cool.  Leaving in 10-ish minutes.  See you on the other side.