Mickleover Messy FiestaLucy Moore |
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Captain Sean Andrews of the Church Army had organized
this Messy Fiesta as training for the
children's leaders' team of his church but had invited the Churches Together
group and friends and strangers from near and far. We were delighted to have 53
guests plus the host team from a range of distance of 'just up the road' to
Liverpool, Hull and Rotherham. Two children's advisers had kindly given up the
day to come, and Jane counted / discerned eight clergy. We were also pleased to
have three or four children among us. The host church laid on a superb lunch of
gargantuan proportions. Following on from some very useful suggestions from
the good messy people of Newcastle, we had altered the programme slightly to
include a Craft Storm: each group was challenged to come up with ten ideas on
different themes that can be put on the web for all to share: check out the
Messy Church website over the next few weeks and these excellent creative ideas
will appear! The cut and thrust of debate was just as friendly as
on previous occasions, but perhaps more keenly thought-through - we had few of
the down to earth, practical questions and more of the bigger picture
questions. We got the impression this is a group of people who are quite a long
way down the Fresh Expressions path. Perhaps my favourite moment of the day was catching
sight of one of our younger guests very intently blowing into a bowl of paint
to make the bubbles rise higher and higher and higher… until the dread moment
when he forgot to blow and sucked… A few comments from the feedback forms: A super day. Thanks for all your hard work. Perhaps
more question time. Exciting, encouraging, envisioning day. THANK YOU. |
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