The Lion King...

...will be this month's film. Thursday 27th August. Come and relive a classic.

The sculptures

After surviving two sessions of plier induced blood blisters, flying screws and hot glue burns, this is what we created!

The brief was to make a sculpture to represent the addictive nature of communications technology; how it can a real draw for us and very hard to let go of. So we made kind-of technology demons...

The photos are on the sofachurch flickr page.

Mulling over a cuppa!!

On Thursday (13th) a group of us met at Tesco's Costa for a cuppa and to review cafechurch over the past 6 months. There was a general concensus that this exciting new project has been well-received, offering a refreshing alternative to more 'traditional' forms of church, enabling folk to chat informally about a wide range of contemporary issues and to build friendships. Although we discussed the possibilities of moving to an alternative 'venue', we all agreed that continuing in a neutral, community environment would make it more accessible.

Anyway, in our short time together a variety of interesting issues were raised, that we feel warrant further discussion. And what better place to do this than here on the blog! So here goes:

• Do you think cafechurch should be targeting a specific sector of the population? If so, how will this influence the topics covered, time/format of each event etc?
• How can we increase the profile of cafechurch within the community?
• What role does 'evangelism' have within contemporary culture?
• How should we best deal with the financial implications of running a cafechurch project: the fees, publicity and administration costs, and 'who' should actually pay for the refreshments at each event etc?
• In what ways can we raise the profile of prayer?

Your contributions to this discussion will be greatly appreciated, particularly as we prepare for more cafechurch events over the coming months. Thank you!

Sculpture phase II

This Thursday (20th) we'll be making something out of the bits of old unwanted communications technology that we dismantled previously.

One of our core values of SofaChurch is creativity, and this is a great opportunity to get together as a group and make something out of nothing, and in doing so worship the God who makes good things out of bad.

You don't have to have come to the previous meeting to come this week, they are stand alone events. If you can bring a glue gun that would be very handy.

cafechurch, August 13th

There will be no cafechurch next week, but keep watching this space for news of the next event.

Sculpture update

We had a great time dismantling old printers, TVs and modems and we now have a big box full of interesting bits. We decided to do the actual creating of the sculpture in three weeks' time, so if anyone is free to come along on 27th August and help you'd be very welcome.

Sunday closing

This afternoon will be our last SC:Sunday get together for the meantime. It might be that we want to restart things again at some other time, but for now it seems that we're all that bit too busy/tired!

We'll be at the SC room today at 2pm for anyone who wants to join us for a walk.

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Just to publicise a new website I've done for those with children who suffer, like Kitty, from food allergy induced eczema. Please pass the address on to anyone you think it might help.

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