Cool Choirs, Clappy Choruses, Cringy Coffee: Religion Chat Thread No 5

[madhairday]

I thought seeing as our other thread has gone somewhere into the oblivion that is old MN pages, I would start us up again anew for a new term. This is a place for those who are Christians (and anyone who's not, we're not an exclusive little club) to chat about life, theology, church, any other stuff and of course Graham Kendrick, as nickel would not forgive me if I forgot to mention him

So all welcome, old and new, it would be fun to chat and chew over anything that comes to mind. Lurkers say hello!

Anyone got a nice juicy topic to get the ball rolling then? Or if not come say hi anyway and tell us how you are doing. :)

Welcome Tess! It's great to have you here!

... And in case Nickeldaisical isn't along quickly to ask the question we really need to know the answer to ... how do you feel about Graham Kendrick?

Popping in to say hello. I'm new here. I'm a curate and in a new town and don't know many people. Three boys, all teenagers, a husband and three mad cats all in a clergy house. Fun though.

Hello, can I join you all?

Here are my newbie answers:

Happy clappy or traditional (I think this was the question but seem to have lost it!)
Traditional

choir or singing group?
Choir! Though I don't sing in my church choir as I have a 2-year-old. I'm singing with them for a wedding tomorrow though.

organ or keyboards/bands?
Organ

hymn books or screens?
Hymn books

and the important one: do you like Graham Kendrick?
Not much!

As you can see I'm a bit of a traditionalist! I was brought up very Low Church/Methodist, but am now quite high church.

Well, what a load of newbies, how wonderful. I would give the exact same answer as you, Woodlands

Ooh here are my newbie answers...

Happy clappy

Singing group

Keyboard/bands (my son, Jack plays guitar in the youth band)

Screens

I wouldn't say I'm a huge Graham Kendrick fan but I do like some of his songs, particularly Knowing You.

Mary is that the one you sent me or a new one?
if it's a new one, then yes please, I'd love to look at it. :)

hello Newbies

one for each side i see

the GK question is the running joke - there's a lot of discussion and banter about him, but it's alll in good fun

Tess what a lovely story. i'm glad you were able to find a supportive church when you needed one :)

i missed greenheart's post in the middle

welcome all three. :)

are you newly curated?
our parish is looking for a vicar....

woodlands - don't worry about your 2-yo.
i have a 10mo dd and i sing in the choir. DH is the organist/choirmaster too.
people are quite nice about it, and there's always someone willing to whisk her away if i need them to.
maybe you should get a creche going? then you can send your 2yo off to it for most of the service.
or ask someone to watch him/her. they're never that much hassle in the stalls (at my old church, 2 of the choristers had 2 pre-schoolers each at any given time prolific breeders and the church worked around them so they were always able to be part of the choir :) )

Welcome newbies, great to have you on board

greenheart, I'm a clergy OH so kwym re madness of clergy household, dh finished his curacy last yr and is now a pioneer minister. Where did you train?

Lovely story Tess.

Had an utterly crap week health wise, but starting to recover, I think.

Hello all, sorry I've not been around for a while and I see you needed my limited expertise last week and I wasn't here. We're heading back to Moldova on Thursday (probably arriving Tuesday) so I won't be around again for a bit - depending on how quickly we can get internet sorted!

cloutie we actually work very closely with Link Romania and distribute between 6 and 7000 boxes for them every year. They also fund some of our ongoing projects, and you're right that they don't put any conditions on receiving the boxes. I know it' too late for you now, but other ideas would have been a small torch (ideally wind-up but not necessarily), a mini tool kit (screwdrivers etc) and postcards/pictures for people to put up on walls.

MHD hope your recovery continues.

will be back online more soon...

Emailed you nickel...

Welcome back TUO, and welcome to everyone new :)

thank you dearie :)

oh, yeah, we've got a new vicar !!! [hgrin][hgrin][hgrin][hgrin] [hgrin][hgrin][hgrin] [hgrin][hgrin][hgrin]

Woohoo!

i know!

Tell, tell and say what answers you think they would give to the essential questions.

Nickel that's brilliant! When will he/she be inducted?

well, obviously not wanting to out the new vicar (but quite frankly, there's not a lot of secrets I hide, so they would be outed just by people knowing what church I attend)

this is his current church
click on the newsletter and see his face on the editorial message.

I think his answers would be:
anything goes
both
both
both/either

he's okay, but there are other composers out there

and we think he'll be starting in the new year, but not sure exactly when.

Great nickel! :) His current church looks thriving and more of 'your' styleeeee....so all good? [hgrin]

exactly!

i think he's the curate at the moment - it says they're in interregnum and their p-in-c post has just been advertised.

he looks quite "young and trendy" (that makes me sound old - he must be a similar age to me - early 30s I was told!), but is used to the traditional, too, so hope he will encourage and nurture both aspects of our Parish.

Fab news nickel! Did you know that they were interviewing again?

oh, yes, they interviewed a fortnight ago.
that's how long it took to make a decision, i suppose.