The biblical cliff-hanger

This week's institute lesson was on the story of Queen Esther. We watched a dvd which depicted how the evil and proud advisor Haman convinced the King to sign a decree that all Jews should be killed. Apparently the King and Esther were yet to have a meaningful conversation since he didn't know she was indeed a Jew. Her cousin Mordecai asked her to go in unto the king and stop the decree and save her people! But she was afraid, since she would be condemned to death upon interrupting the king unless he held out the golden sceptor. Apparently they were still working on the quality of their relationship. So Esther asked her people to fast for three days, as she would also do, and then she would go in unto the king. Soon arrived the day of doom, the moment of truth, she farewelled her friends and took the brave plunge to enter the king's court, interrupting the proceedings and there she stood, awaiting her fate as the king made his decision. And then....the dvd ended!! So cruel!!! Now we'll never know if Esther lived or died!! Unless there's a book somewhere...

The fun activity afterwards was a charades/pictionary type game (did it have a name?) where two teams, team Esther and team Haman, were both miming at the same time, fastest correct answer winning that team a point. Round two was slightly harder with one person from each team being a prop to be used by the one trying to depict the answer. The Rosny delegates, Maz and Tyler did the ward proud on team Haman, winning by several points. Go team!