31 August 2010
Just back from Greenbelt - the Christian Arts Festival in Cheltenham. It's our second year there with Messy Church and once again we had fun! A brilliant team of leaders from Cowplain, Liverpool and Hartlepool with members of the Barnabas Team, and ranging in age from Edward and Joshua (whose contribution was more on the non-verbal side) through Jack and Molly who added energy and kept us on our toes, through our enthusiastic teenagers Duncan, Judith and Arthur and our, shall ...
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25 August 2010
If you're a creative and communicative person with a passion for Jesus, a commitment to all-age worship (of course, or you wouldn't be doing Messy Church) and lots of ideas to share, you may be interested in an opportunity to be considered for the Seasons of the Spirit writing team.
Susan Burt, the Managing Editor, emailed me from Canada recently and explains what she's looking for. So please read it through and
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15 August 2010
Jane Leadbetter and Jane Butcher took a Messy Team to Keswick earlier in the summer. Jane Leadbetter writes:
The last Wednesday in July and the first Wednesday in August, some of us were invited to Keswick, in the Lake District, to the annual Christian Convention, to put on a first ever Keswick Messy Church showcase. Volunteer Messy Church leaders and Co-ordinators came from Durham, Blackburn, Chester, Wrexham, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Liverpool to create a Messy Creation theme for ...
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04 August 2010
Great to hear from Chris Barton in Shetland about their third session of Messy Church in Scalloway. She also has a suggestion about music, which might be useful for those of us trying to find music suitable for all ages. Obviously it won't suit every church, but the day someone finds a worship song that nobody grumbles about will be the day the waters cover the sea.
Chris writes:
'Messy Church grew again with more adults coming along, some dads with the rest of the family. We ...
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04 August 2010
Fresh Expressions' Bishop Graham Cray has just returned from a trip to New Zealand. You might like to hear an interview with him on Rhema Radio in NZ about Fresh Expressions. Follow this link.
If you're interested only in his mention of Messy Church, go to part 4, but the rest of it is worth listening to as ...
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