Samaritan's Purse
Lucy Moore - 12 November 2009
The Samaritan’s Purse website has lots of suggestions that may be useful for messy Churches.
Resources and links
I really need an industrial quantity of pink glitter. Where can I find it?
Steve the Juggler
Lucy Moore - 12 November 2009
A great site featuring Steve the Juggler! You can get resources for juggling and more, as well as find out about Gospel Juggling workshops.
Visit www.jugglingworld.biz to find out more.
Posters and invitations
BRF - 23 October 2009
You can now purchase posters and invitations from CPO. For more information, visit the CPO website.
Ribbons, flags and more
Lucy Moore - 05 August 2009
Several Messy Churches have purchased ribbons and flags from Kingdom Dance - www.kingdomdance.co.uk.
Beads, beads and more beads!
Anonymous - 20 April 2009
The Bead Shop in Nottingham has an incredible array of wooden beads (along with many other kinds) for craft activities. Their postal service is excellent - orders are sent out the same day and they ring to tell you if there is anything they can't supply.
Reflections from an afternoon in Brixham (pdf)
Lucy Moore - Portsmouth, UK - 28 January 2008
Here's the result of some of the group work we did on spirituality and on outreach through the various components of Messy Church.
It's a pdf, so please give it a few moments to download...
Read Lucy's blog post to get some background on these reflections.
Messy Church Survey
Lucy Moore - Portsmouth, UK - 10 December 2007
We've devised and revised this survey to try and get Messy Church-goers to let us know what they want from Messy Church. If you can take it and use it, please do!
Messy Church Survey version one
Messy Helpers Sign-Up Sheet
Lucy Moore - Portsmouth, UK - 10 December 2007
One of the questions we've been chewing over at our planning meeting is how to involve the Sunday congregations more in Messy Church, both as helpers and to make it clear that this is an opportunity for them to invite neighbours and friends along and enjoy coming as a member themselves.
We've come up with a form for helpers, which is going in the church magazine and which we'll hand out as a letter into people's hands in Sunday church.
Messy Planning Sheet
Lucy Moore - Portsmouth, UK - 10 December 2007
Planning a session?
You may like to download the Messy Planning sheet to help everything go smoothly.
Messy Fiesta November 07 - Dreaming Dreams (pdf)
Lucy Moore - Portsmouth, UK - 12 November 2007
The very first Messy Fiesta training day took place in Portsmouth in November 2007. Amongst the fun and the fellowship, we also talked about some of our hopes, fears and dreams for Messy Church.
Each person could look at their own experience of Messy Church, whether thinking about starting a Messy event or looking back on running one for some time, and together we dreamed some dreams.
Here are our thoughts in this pdf. Please be patient while it downloads...
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