Beach balls.

End of school holidays last week for NSW last week. (Holidays? What's that?) Anyway, Ballina Pressie Church was holding a kid's day camp over the holidays.

A bit of background: the church is heritage listed. It has about 3m walls, and the roof is so arched that it's probably about 6m in the centre. It's a grey stone church, and there are three stained glass windows on the side. I believe it was built around the turn of the 20th century.

On Sunday the pastor of the church, Hamish, gave a short report on what happened during the kid's camp to the rest of the congregation.

"And one other thing we learned was whether or not we are allowed to bounce a beach ball around in church. Well, kids, are we allowed or not?

Of course we are."

So we bounced a beach ball around in church. Every time anyone bounced the beach ball ball we had to recite another word from our memory verses.

It worked pretty well, except for one old lady who, instead of bouncing the ball upwards, kept slamming the ball into the back of the head of another elderly lady about two pews in front.