PARTNERS moseyed on down to the Rock Ranch at St John's Church.

The fabulous annual Mayhem holiday club returned this year event bigger and better.

Cowboys and cowgirls donned their Stetsons and had a cow-shed full of fun including crafts and a game of 'cactus tig'.

American minister Reverend Teri Peterson was inducted into the Gourock church in March and this was her first summer holiday club in Scotland.

She told the Tele: "It was fantastic.

"The kids had a great time and the leaders did an amazing job.

"We have a hoedown every morning with dancing and singing and a hunt with 150 'sheep' hidden on the church floor for the children to find, to tie in with the story of the lost sheep."

After songs, dances and sketches and a time machine session looking back to stories from the bible the group was split into two camps of older and youngster children.

The older children played games and the younger kids enjoyed crafts before swapping over.

Leaders Eliot Bolster, aka Cowboy Curtis and Sean Nelis, Greenhorn Gary, took the kids through their paces.

There was also a Pony Express box where youngsters could write jokes and notes which the leaders read out in the hall.

Emma Kane, 10, said: "It was really good fun."

While Sophie McMillan, 11, added: "It's a fun way to learn about Jesus and God."

Emily Cushnahan, also 11, has been going to the holiday club for three years.

She said: "I've made lots of friends here."