This Thursday is the end of our money discipleship theme. The plan is to mark the end with a celebratory act of worship together to commit all that we have done, thought about and pledged to God. (I am somewhat reluctant to use the word 'celebration' considering the incredibly hard time that many of us have been through this year. I am not thinking of celebration in a brainless 'everything is blissful and if you disagree we'll pray for you' that many of us will recognise from other churches that we have been involved with. Easter reminds us that life can and will be a mixture of wonderful moments mixed in with brutal sadness. We can, however, celebrate the occasional glimpses of hope that we can see in the middle of awful situations. God will redeem this messed-up world, and we can celebrate this bigger picture with faith. And if any of us do not have enough faith at the moment then maybe the rest of us can hold them up.)
I'm open to suggestions, but my current idea is to have three aspects to the evening.
First, if everyone could bring along what they have done with the four tasks. We can display the arty ones and collect the text ones together, and I can hopefully get the book together for a couple of weeks' time.
Second is cooking and eating a meal together, using ingredients that are cheap and either local or fair-trade. I've got this in mind followed by a chocolate tart. I think I know how to get hold of ethical ingredients for these. If anyone wants to to help get the ingredients please let me know, otherwise I'm happy to get them. Bring your pasta makers if you have them!
We will finish with something to commit ourselves as disciples and share what we are going to do differently (task four).
We can also discuss what our next theme will be!
Please pass any comments or suggestions my way.
PS It would be great if people could prioritise this evening over other SofaChurch meetings - I'm not saying that you must all come, but if you only come to, say, one in four please try and make this the one! Simply because it would be lovely to have your company.
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Well worth celebrating, I think, is the sense of family we are on the way to creating at SofaChurch. I hope I'm not alone in feeling that folk within the group are beginning to become knitted together in a really positive way.
I'll be there. I haven't done any of the tasks I'm afraid, apart from making a budget (which I now have to do again once my new financial circumstances are in place...).
I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone though and sharing a meal together. Despite the utter crap I have been through so far this year, I still see reasons to celebrate - at least I do when I'm in the right frame of mind! ;-)
It's wonderful to hear that, H. You're an amazing person and I hope that positive frame of mind endures and helps you onwards.
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