Ping Pong Tournament

Our church has a weekly outreach ministry on Tuesday nights: SMS Club. Text messages are called SMS, and I guess it's a play off that. Usually, SMS club consists of a central theme, discussions, games, and sometimes a drama or music. This week, however, we had a ping pong tournament!

It was a great time to involve new people in SMS, and some of our English clubbers came, too. To start the festivites, each of the 18 participants (all guys) were given a match. They proceeded to ceremonially light the "Olympic Ping Pong Torch."After the historic lighting ceremony, they began duking it out. We stayed for round one of the brackets. We haven't yet heard who won, but we'll try to find out tonight.

Olympic Torch

Vova laying down the rules to all the participants.

Part of the cheering section: me, Nastiya, and Masha