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Since I live so far away, and cannot be a regular member in person, do you mind if I tell you about two interesting and exciting events which I shall be attending in November?
The first is the A.G.M. and weekend drama workshop run by RADIUS, The Religious Drama Society of Great Britain (yes, it was founded partly by TS Eliot and Christopher Fry when Britain was still called 'Great'!). The theme of the workshop is 'Ready to Forgive?', held in Oxford 16th-18th Nov.
From 21st-23rd November, I shall be in Swanwick, Derbyshire, at the 'Inclusive Church' conference called 'Drenched in Grace'.
You can find websites for each of these. I find health and refreshment through both of these organisations, so I'm sharing the Good News with you!
I must visit your cafe sometime. Best wishes to you all.

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If anyone would like to come round to our place to watch the World Cup final on Saturday (20 October), you'd be most welcome. Any time from 18:30 would seem sensible. We're at
183 Gleneldon Road
London SW16 2BX

It's near the corner of Gleneldon Road and Valley Road. Easy walk from Streatham Station, 15-20 minutes walk from Streatham Common or Streatham Hill Stations, easy walk from the 159 bus stop at St. Leonards Streatham.

If you could let me know that you're coming it'll meake it easier to lay in the right stores, but if you rock up unexpectedly there's an off-licence just round the corner and we'll be ordering in food so don't be put off by not having said you're coming.

E-mail P-Rundell@dfid.gov.uk
Tel 07817413145

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OK - Ian & Aaron have done some work - see attachment to get a flavour

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I also really liked Trine's idea of using a big box and some actors to bring each place to life. The box can be bath / bed / train / desk / dining table ...
I've two questions. First, what if anything do we want people to DO during the service, by which they may remember it? This has words in place of the actions (I recall washing in the bathroom); can we give it some physical content?
Second, is there something people should take away with them? Or leave behind them? Again, it's part of a desire to imprint the message on people's memories.
Could we also rely on enough current photos (including some from Greenbelt) to assemble a new collage for the first set of images? As a pixel-dunce myself I'm not sure how feasible it would be to build that part of the presentation at the last minute -- though of course we can use existing pics too if we don't get many at the time ...

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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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Loving the idea of heaven in the ordinary - the sacred in the everyday .... an exploration of buechners classic quote ... LISTEN to your life. SEE it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: TOUCH, TASTE, SMELL your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. Frederick Buechner.

let me know what i can do to help .... mark

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I think we have two possibilities of things we could do:
1 - Run a daily labyrinth in the MB&S section - they have a lot of traffic, and maybe offer foot massages or something to attract people to it.
2.- Run some form of cafe venue on the site following our dream of having a cafe church.

What ever we do - we will need some form of rota so that people could have time on/off - but I would hope we would all have a bit of a laugh whilst we were there.

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We plan to focus on celebrating discipline - as the path from distraction to holiness. We want to use the three-fold schema from Richard Foster's book "Celebration of Discipline": inward, outward, and corporate. We also want to make this as physical, rather than word-ly, a service as we can.

We think of the discipline of a dancer as the type of what we mean. A dancer needs the discipline of training, to be able to dance right. (S)he also needs discipline of movement in the dance itself. Without both disciplines the dance would not be.

So we plan to start with a dance (Rachel, to an Arvo Part piece). We will have a single large loop of chairs, to keep everyone in the same circle. We will have three sections of activity: one corporate first (Rob, on confession I think); then one outward (Peter, on simplicity); then one inward (Rachel, on meditation).

Still working on the detailed contents of each activity, which we hope may each involve physical rather than just discursive exploration. We will have a playlist that may be a little different from usual. We plan a chant (probably new) to use early and late in the service.

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To be really clear - we can only have alcohol for the opening night - it is not on church property - so we do not have the flexibility as with other spaces we have done cabarets in in the past - so it is a no alcohol venue I am afraid except for the opening night - and then we can't charge - but people could make a suggested donation to the work of moot.... we need to be careful on this one
Ian

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