October 2017
Last week saw about 35 people attending. We used sample session 2, made the mirrors and also made cardboard Dame Edna-style glasses with 'Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your word' on the handles. Scouts came and led us in 'Kim's game' and another game where one person on a chair and blindfolded, has to listen out for people coming to steal a bunch of keys under the chair.
I found a funny drama around Mark 8 online. Two of our older members and one of the team performed it and were thoroughly hilarious! Some older members taught the children the song 'I have seen the golden sunshine' and we repeated 'Great big God' from last time. This time though the older ones who had been at the front to teach their song chose to stay with me and do the actions for 'Great big God'.
To be honest, the content hasn't really changed that much from our previous Messy Churches, but the tweaks we've made out of the Vintage approach seems to have changed the ownership the church feels over Messy Church enormously. Before Vintage, numbers were consistently low. Now we're seeing more church people coming along and feeling confident to bring unchurched family members. Other people from other activities we run, such as a coffee shop and a fellowship group for older people, have attended, which we hadn’t seen before.
We are moving our regular Messy Church into the local school to see how that works and we will run Vintage at church again in February half term.
So it’s all good news here!
Thank you to you all for providing this new initiative that we can tap into and benefit from so much.