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Moot Accounts 2006-2008
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Feb 28 2008, 5:34 AM EST by
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These files contain information regarding Moot's accounts. If you have any particular information please do speak to Jan Rosenow the Treasurer. If you are seeking forms to financially give to Moot & consider yourself to be a member of Moot then please do go to the secure section of the Moot Website where you can download forms and instruction.
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Moot Accounts 2006-2007
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Moot Mission Finances
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Jan 9 2008, 11:52 AM EST by
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End of Year Accounts are now completed bar checking by our Moot Treasurer. For access to these secured files please speak to Jan.
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Nov 2 2007, 5:29 AM EDT by
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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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Greenbelt : Moot Service Planning
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Nov 2 2007, 5:20 AM EDT by
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It's worth bearing in mind if we decide to use the mint tea idea again that I pinched/adapted it from a Greenbelt service a couple of years ago! (can't remember who!)
Can we incorporate any ideas from Andrew and Aaron's 'Places' service last year - which had prayer stations with images of places from everyday life, inviting people to see God there...?
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Nov 2 2007, 5:20 AM EDT
One of my friends has a website on which she has posted photos of 'images from everyday life, inviting people to see God there'. It is called 'Christ Explored'. I hope it is still running. She would appreciate your interest.
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Rugby World Cup
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The Oven
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Oct 15 2007, 2:22 AM EDT by
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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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Weekend away - possible venue
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Agenda for next community meeting
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Sep 4 2007, 2:50 AM EDT by
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I'm really disappointed to miss this week's community meeting. Sadly I'll be in Brussels for a meeting on Kosovo ...
One possible venue for the weekend away is Tanners Hatch. We can have the whole place for the weekend for £700 (which works out at £17.50 per person per night if we're 20 people). There's space for a meeting and it's genuinely quiet and rural. For more details see
http://www.yha.org.uk/find-accommodation/south-east-england/hostels/tanners-hatch/index.aspx
Handicaps: it's about 3/4 mile walk from the nearest car park; there are no family rooms so small kids will be in with others - if you're not used to infant waking hours ...
Have a creative and enjoyable gathering, and I look forward to what you decide about a venue for November (and everything else).
Peter
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Street Section
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Jul 31 2007, 6:27 AM EDT by
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OK - Ian & Aaron have done some work - see attachment to get a flavour
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Cafe layouts
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Greenbelt NF Cafe
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Jul 17 2007, 5:07 PM EDT by
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I've added three attachments with some alternative cafe layouts for comment. All try to re-work last years layout (also attached) to increase the venue capacity. All have pros and cons.
PLAN 1 (last year) - not enough space for punters. Access /exit messed up by health and safety bods.
PLAN 2 - Cafe servery small and could cause congestion around entrance. Good capacity and stage/screen arrangement.
PLAN 3 - Solves cafe issues from 2 but capacity is poor.
PLAN 4 - Good cafe servery and techie arrangement. Poor site lines to some seats. Good capacity.
Plans 2 and 4 seem to be the way forward. Thoughts please...
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Thanks for your comments - I've added the final layout following a GB planning meeting tonight.
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Places
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Jun 29 2007, 3:48 AM EDT by
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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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Jun 7 2007, 9:54 AM EDT by
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I think this could be fantastic with a big group! Thanks for attaching the sheets, Andrew - it's good to see them again! What if the images were projected, and what is written were read out - like a meditation really. We could even try and add one or two images from Greenbelt - the food/toilet/shower ticket queue...
Obviously with the original service you invited people to text or email you their images of everyday life, which would be tricky for this, but we could do something inviting people to think of/draw/describe an ordinary place/situation and think/pray/talk about how that points towards God...
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Jun 6 2007, 5:19 PM EDT by
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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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Jun 6 2007, 5:00 PM EDT by
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Following on from the community meeting discussion (see community meeting section - notes are attached) I've attached some summary sheets from the service I did with Aaron. Like the mint tea service logistically the stations would be difficult to manage with such a lot of people. However the GB theme and the basis of the service fit quite well. The places could be used as a service structure, perhaps with visuals/actors/whatever...
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May 24 2007, 11:34 AM EDT by
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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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May 21 2007, 7:28 AM EDT by
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ummm not sure how making mint tea for potentially 200 people would work - I loved the service but I am doubtful about being able to transfer it to such a larger group.
we did talk about doing a 'feelgood' using soul as a theme - some sort of celebration of god and creation?
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Moot @ Big Chill 2008
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Mar 15 2007, 4:12 AM EDT by
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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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Involvement in Greenbelt 07
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Feb 27 2007, 3:40 PM EST by
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We are looking again to set up the new forms cafe drawing on our experiences from last year - with FAR LESS dependence on Moot to get it all together. People interested in being involved - Again Andrew Carr will be involved in the design of the space? If interested in being part of ther team, let us know...
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March Big Service on Lent
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Feb 20 2007, 1:38 PM EST by
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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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BIg Chill 2008
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Feb 19 2007, 1:52 PM EST by
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I think it could be a good idea - though i personally would want to understand more about what the bases for this decision is. On my visits to the big chilll I have wanted to engage with the music and actually see the line up. If I was 'serving' that might prevent this to some degree! I know this sounds a little selfish but when I go to a festival like this, this is the reason for going - to see/hear the music. However, in saying this my visits to the MB&S field did provide a welcome retreat and I engaged with others in a different, open and relaxed way. As I say I would want to be part of the discussion for me to have a more informed choice in taking part in the 2008 event.
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Alcohol
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Feb 17 2007, 12:48 PM EST by
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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
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Memory Palaces
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big service creative space
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Feb 16 2007, 1:33 PM EST by
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That reminds me of the memory palace idea, where you imagine things along a familiar route - usually up to and around your house - in order to remember lots of things. Its a memory technique for using when you have to commit a lot of stuff to memory.
You can go through it in your mind as a meditation, and its usually better if you're NOT actually at home when you do it, as it aids the remembering.
There are meditations like this - in the "How to Pray" book by Pritchard is the one that springs to mind.
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