Canticles, charisma and chat (Religion thread number 2)

[BaroqueAroundTheClock]

the first one is nearly full.

Anyone welcome, it's basically a "what happened in church/spiritual life/anything else you want to chat about that's vaguely related (or not) to churchy stuff.

signing in!

me too! :)

And me!

Hello again - missed most of the last thread, might not be on for a few days as off to stay with relatives for a couple of days from tomorrow (after Mass of course )

that's alright, HM, we're not going anywhere!

right, the last one is full.

i'm listening to a very odd video on youtube right now....

yay - full old thread

welcome to all the "old" regulars, the sporadics and the newbies.

ooh, my video has finished "producing" and is now "uploading"

i wonder how long that'll take?
i've got to hoover tonight, so i'll be around for a while!

you uploading direct from PD??

yeah.

i know you said it'd take longer, but i decided to experiment with different formats.
it's only a 10-minute video for this one though (not the choir one, this is a belly dance one!)

how did you manage that, baroque on the last thread?

when i posted 1001, it said "this thread is too big to accept new messages"

how did you manage to get 2 more in??????

- I had 2 threads open and hadn't posted on either - so the "add message" was still there and worked

Well, ds1 has just arrived home after 2 weeks away with a new girlfriend! She's got a cut glaaass accent, but apart from that seems very nice. They're going out in M/cr later and then staying the night here.

I'm still a bit bereft about the loss of his old gf however, she was lovely, a Christian, and seemed so reliable, but there we are, life and love moves on I suppose.

I hope they won't be up to any shinnanighans after lights out (like I would've been at their age!).

lol - I'm loving the fact that her worst point so far is her cut glaaaas accent

Marking my spot on here.

That link was a bit random Nickel

Baroque, I do the newsheet in colour, but it took 6 months of nagging asking and it being frowned upon. We got a new printer and it cost the same to do a colour sheet as it did with the old one B&W, so I sort of pushed it then and there has been no going back! It doesnt matter how much colour is per sheet, its the same price, so I make the most of it!

just parkin' me bum

Ay 'up

Another church-newsletter producer here, also do the website.

Haven't got on yet today as been at godson's baptism, was lovely. Now I have finished his cross stitch I can play on PD! Yay! Getting there but keep getting cross when it doesn't do what I think it should - trying to get my head round the keyframes thingy right now :)

Anyway marking my place.

Hello! Can I join the thread? Not sure what I will contribute but I think I'll find it useful to just have this as a prompt to think about my faith a bit more IYKWIM?
Since having DS I find it even harder to get a focussed quiet time!

MHD website sorter here to, to some extent. castlehold.com if you want a nosey!

I haven't really used the keyframes thing yet

PA - the prices we had between a b&w printer and one that could do colour was huge - so it's baclk and white

Have any of you ever instigated Messy Church or God in Play sessions in your churches? If so - will you share your experiences(good and hideous)?

someone on here has, I remember them talking about it, but not me I'm afraid. My only experience of messy church was at Greenbelt (I think, or it might've been New Wine). It was fun as I remember it.

We do Messy Church once a month in our village. Reaches fringe people so is great in that respect. Far too crafty for me but we are blessed with enthusiastic helpers. We don't do the meal part but have cake instead. My only criticisms are: the high craft element means that we don't really appeal to boys plus it is hard to build meaningful relationships when you only meet once a month. But generally Messy Church is great.

Thanks for that! Did either of you do it before or after the main service or at the same time in a separate place. And how is it embraced by the traditionalists in the congregation?

We do it completely separately from our 'normal' service as it is aimed at people who don't normally do church. We also do it in the village hall rather than in church. We have also started a new family service in our church, but again are holding this as an additional service rather than replacing a more traditional one. Our Messy Church is on a Sunday afternoon but I've also done similar stuff in an after school slot which also worked well. I guess you need to think carefully who your target audience is, so to speak. It isn't really for the Traditionalists. Let them have BCP instead