I've had an idea for service inmy head for a bit that tries to address two things: 1. getting community planning/contributing to services working more usefully and 2.engaging with the world outside STMW.

The basic premise of it is that a few small groups are given a portion of the streets within, say 1km of STMW, and are asked to wander around them for a few hours and develop a short meditative/devotional/liturgical/etc something from their experiences. This could take lots of forms - prayers, reciting encounters with others, poems, photographs, found object and so on.

Each short piece would be organised into a service structure of different 'streets' which would hold the thing together. The curator of this structure may need to add/modify things to ensure the service works and plug any gaps with our agreed STMW content. Unusually content would not come from the curator but from experiences on the street synthesised by others.

It would also get us out of ecclesiastical environments and warm our thinking up a bit about how what we're doing (faith/God/church/spirituality) relates to the outside world in anticipation of cafe church, etc type happenings.

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