This is where we archive our services. I would suggest a simple format so we don't get overloaded - could be like... This way we can keep track of what we have done - reuse good ideas and gain some insight into what we have been up to :-)

Service Name and Date and who was involved all in bold
Brief 2 line description of the service
Elements in service e.g. Intro liturgy (in brackets who was responsible), video loop (again contact name), etc... No need to do into too much detail - just enough so people see what it was.

Big Service - Generosity/greed | 10 June | Peter and James
Title: Welcome to moot Welcome to this month’s Big Service, in which we shall explore this month’s theme of generosity. We are using each month to learn about one of the seven cardinal virtues (and their companion sins; in this month, greed). Later in the service we shall test aspects of generosity – with our possessions, our time, and our hearts – in practical terms. We shall be guided by some short passages of scripture, as well as by our own experiences and intuition. As usual, we shall project the words of the service onto the screen, and the words in bold are for all to say together. First, though, let us take time to make ourselves aware of what is always around us and within us, surrounding us and sustaining us; the loving presence of our generous God. Title: Acknowledgement of the Presence of God + We meet in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Companion. Amen. (As first person lights candle) We meet in the name of the Creator, the Holy One of Israel, who said “let there be”, and there is. + (As second person lights candle) We meet in the name of the Redeemer, who by dying destroyed death and by rising won for you a holy people. Jesus Christ is holy. + (As third person lights candle) We meet in the name of the Companion, the Holy Spirit of God, whose presence makes the whole world the temple of God’s holiness. + + We meet in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Companion. Amen. Title: Scripture Readings Widow’s mite Acts “all things in common” 2 Corinthians 9: 10-11 Title: Reflection and Action 1: Generosity of Possessions Visual? We should not spend time tonight debating the nature of an interim ethic in the early church, nor in questioning the economic impact of universal generosity. They’re both interesting debates, and we might pursue them in the pub afterwards. Now, though, I’d like us to test our own readiness to listen to these words and act them out. This evening we shall explore three aspects of generosity. There are many ways to cut the subject; I hope this one may help to challenge us and stimulate us. If we are indeed called to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, this may be our introduction to both aspects as once. We shall explore generosity and greed in three respects: possessions, time, and spirit. The first is the one we usually think of, and when we describe someone as greedy we usually mean that they seek or hoard wealth. So let’s look at our own possessions. Let’s look at the things we own, that risk owning us. Let’s first get into small groups – say four or so each. Please empty your pockets, handbags, saddlebags, rucsacs, or whatever you’ve come with, into a pile in front of you. Look at what you’ve taken out. What do they symbolize? Keys that open the door to your home? Your safe place, your showcase? Keys that unlock your car? Your mobility, your contribution to global warming? Keys that unchain your bike? Your way to get around, your fitness showpiece? Wallet that holds your cash and credit cards, the money that allows you to command goods and services from across the city and around the world? Mobile phone that links you to the world, or allows the world to distract you from those near you? Palmtop or Blackberry that keeps you in touch, that proclaims your connectedness and your command over the latest in executive tools – or toys? Pens or pencils that allow you to annotate and correct, create and amend, design or define? Make-up or medicine, necessary or just nice? What have you got in your pile? What does it mean to you? What would it be irresponsible to let go? What would it just be hard to let go? Where would generosity lead you among this pile of possessions? I’m not asking you to give any of it away now. Instead, please pick one item that you find symbolises something particularly challenging to you, something you find particularly hard to connect with the conversation of generosity. With your neighbours, talk about what this challenges, why it’s hard to let go, why it makes you ungenerous, why it throws light on your greedy side, why it tests your freedom from possessions. If you’re ready to, please bring it up to the front, and put it into this collective bowl. We will offer these challenges together to the generous God who loves a joyful giver and who receives with joy the most uncertain of gifts. At the end of the service, you’ll need to take it back into your possession, however transformed, so please make sure you can tell your bike keys from mine, or your cellphone from Gareth’s, before you bring it up. Title: Prayers of Repentance Let us come together in our prayers of repentance, seeking God’s generous gift of forgiveness and freedom from our sins. + In the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Companion. Amen + In the presence of this Holy Trinity, God of infinite love and infinite generosity, we recognize how far short we all fall of God’s infinite perfection. Lord Jesus, you wept over the sins of your city. On our city: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord Jesus, you heal the wounds of sin and division, jealousy and bitterness. On us: Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord Jesus, you bring pardon and peace to the sinner. Grant us peace: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. May the Creator God of love and power forgive us and free us from our sins, heal and strengthen us by the Companion Spirit, and raise us to new life in Christ the Redeemer. Amen. Title: Reflection and Action 2: Generosity of Time So much for our possessions. Second, let’s look at our time. Back in your groups, please look at your diary. If you’re a techno-slave, please look at your cellphone calendar or your Blackberry or your iPod. See how much time you have mapped out already this week. How much time do you have for making money? How much time do you have for family? How much time do you have for friends? How much time do you have for study and thought? How much time do you have for fun? How much time do you have for prayer and contemplation? With your neighbours, talk about the gaps in your day, and about the blocks. Some people have too much time, and no money coming in. Time drags and leisure is a curse. Other people have no time for themselves at all. I have too much time for work and not enough time for prayer. Look at your day, and ask yourself where a challenge to be generous with your time might take you. If you’d like to, please write yourself a note about the time you want to give or to share. Be specific about what generosity should mean for your time. Then fold it up, write your own name on the outside so you can find it again, and bring it up to put into this collective bowl. Again we’ll offer these challenges back to the Creator God who set time going. Title: Prayers of Recollection We will say the prayers of recollection alternate sides, this side saying the prayers on the left of the screen, on the white ground, and this side those on the right, on the red ground. We will all say the words in bold together. In the presence of this Holy Trinity, God of infinite love and infinite generosity, we recognize how far short we all fall of God’s infinite perfection. In the presence of this gracious God, who loves to give and gives love, let us recollect the past week, and offer it back to God (L) Lord, You have always given strength for the coming day; and though I am weak, today I believe (R) Lord, You have always given peace for the coming day; and though of anxious heart, today I believe (L) Lord, You have always kept me safe in trials; and now, tried as I am, today I believe (R) Lord, You have always lightened this darkness of mine; and though now I may be blind, today I believe (L) Lord, You have always spoken when time was ripe; and though I may not hear you now, today I believe (R) Lord, You have always upheld me in love; and though my love may be narrow now, today I believe Title: Reflection and Action 3: Generosity of Spirit Visual? Finally, let’s look at our spirits. I was brought up with the challenge that you are as close to God as you are to the person from whom you feel most divided. That challenge led politicians to talk across divides of nation and creed. For us, as a community, I’d like to ask what is for me a difficult question. This building contains spaces that symbolise all sorts of church. At the altar end is the glory and splendour of the Catholic tradition, with incense and gong and gold and ritual. At the other end is a simple space, free of clutter and busy-ness, ready for direct encounter with the Word made flesh. In between is the screen on which we project our service, the archetype of the alt.worship service. There are lots of types of worship, as there are lots of types of people. Some of those types go with particular forms of behaviour. All of them can speak to us of the glory and simplicity and vibrancy of God, of the immediacy and transcendence and currency of God. All of them can be greedy for power, judging of outsiders, proud of “our” identity in truth, damaging in control. Some of us may find any form of church alien. Some of us have been deeply hurt by one or another form of church. Some of us may not yet have caught up with those hurts or the way they have mis-shaped our lives. Yet we also recognise in them, despite their human wrongs, the spark of the Creator, the Redeemer, the Companion. So for this last exploration of generosity, I want you to pick an area of this space that represents for you the type of church from which you feel most distant. The kind of church that you reject, or that rejects you. The kind of church that you judge, or that judges you. Go and sit in that space and reflect for a while on the widening of your heart that might come with the generous love of God. A candle is a symbol of light and of life and of love. There are candles in each part of the church. Some people will light a candle from those we lit at the start of the service, and bring that light of God, Creator, Redeemer and Companion, to each part of the church. Then would each person with a lit candle offer that light to another person, share the fire of the spirit, pass on the light of the world. And in so doing, we each welcome into our own hearts that gift, that light, that promise to all who seek and love the unknown and unknowable God made known to us in Christ. Let us now come back together as a whole community. Let us gather that light together, bringing the scattered lights from different parts of the church. Let us join together as a single body, lit by the light of candles that symbolise the light of Christ. And as a single body let us come together to pray for the world, for the church, and for our community. Title: Prayers for the world and the church Title: the Lord’s Prayer Title: Dedication (visual?) Finally, we prepare to go out into the world. As we do so, we ask our generous God’s blessing on our goods, our time, our hearts, and our lives. (taking the bowl of possessions) We thank God for each good thing that we have, and for the gifts by which we came by them. We thank God for the delight they bring us. And we give back to God these gifts to us, in thanks and gratitude. We ask God to bless them, and bless our use of them and our sharing of them and our giving of them. Amen (taking the bowl of timings) We thank God for every good moment that we enjoy, and for the gifts by which those moments come to us. We thank God for the delight they bring to us. And we give back to God these gifts to us, in thanks and gratitude. We ask God to bless them, and to bless our use of them and our sharing of them and our giving of them. Amen Now let us come up and re-collect what we put into these bowls. Let us take back into our possession these gifts we have been given by God’s grace, and recollect the challenges they are to us and the generosity with we seek to enjoy them when we go out from here. Let us take back into our possession these reminders of ways in which we can be more generous with our time, and recollect them as we go out from here. And let us take with us in our hearts, too, the generous blessing of God on us and on all God’s children, however they may picture God and seek God and love God and serve God. Title: Benediction Words on screen May the peace of the Lord Christ go with us, wherever God may send us. May God guide us through the wilderness, protect us through the storm. May God bring us home rejoicing at the wonders God has shown us. May God bring us home rejoicing once again into our doors. + In the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Companion. Amen. Usual moot closing slide with contact details Notices, including money slot and plug for Tuesday discussion/scripture space.

Big Service - Easter | aftermath | 22nd April | Andy and Kat
Thinking about the aftermath of Easter by exploring the cycle of death - resurrection - abandonment using the Road to Emmaus story, especially the end where Jesus vanishes as soon as the disciples realise he's there.
Storytelling - using the Road to Emmaus story (Ian)
Video - sony bravia advert: tower blocks covered in bright-coloured paint used forwards and then in reverse (Gareth)
Ritual - cutting and breaking mint plants during confession, pouring hot water on the leaves during prayers of forgiveness, then sharing the tea (Kat and Andy)
Meditation - reflecting on how God is present, framed by Emmaus story and tea ritual (Kat)
Liturgy written by Andy and Kat

March Big Service on Lent
Rachel, Peter and Rob We should be most grateful for help next Sunday (18 March) for the Big Service. The theme will be "celebrating discipline: from distraction to holiness" and we need several people to help us:
- two people at least to help set up
- two others, or the same two, to help us put everything back into place
- three more people to read short passages (ideally at least two women)
- one woman and one man to lead a very simple chant to the Sanctus, which ideally we should sing in two-part harmony.
The set-up needs to start at 17:30 (5:30 p.m.) at the latest (could be 17:00 if people are keen). The putting back is likely to last about half an hour after the service (might be less if we really get it smooth and smart … )
The readers need to be there by 18:30 if possible, so that they can see their pieces and fit them in.
The singers ought if possible to be with us by 18:15, to listen to the chant and get used to it. From 18:30 we plan to have a playlist running that would make it harder to work on the chant then.

Little Service - Lent | 4th March | Kat and Clare
Using the Ignatian Examen to seek God where we are, holistically, and sharing some insights from that. Readings: Psalm 139, Luke 8:42b-48
Meditation oultine is attached at the bottom of the page.