4th Sunday- Church Outside goes tidal

The Church Outside group went to Putsborough Beach today for our monthly worship event. Arriving at just after 10am to a worryingly small beach we started off by making some sand sculptures to relax into each others company (sculptures on the theme of films: slumdog millionaire won for attempting to build a miniature slum on the beach!). Following that most people relaxed while a small team set out a prayer labyrinth based on the Millenium Labyrinth at St Paul's Cathedral ( http://www.labyrinth.org.uk/index.html ).

Once it was all set up we used it as the focus of our morning worship- it took just under an hour for 40 of us to pass through the labyrinth and the two additional prayer stations, while passersby looked on and occasionally asked what was going on- a few came close enough to look at the printed reflections that were dotted around the labyrinth itself.

Afterwards we had a picnic lunch and played a few more games on the beach before retiring just as the rain became more serious- next month we'll probably be out on Exmoor, contact Andy Dodwell at Holy Trinity for further details if you are interested.

the other thing... Pilton Festival

Pilton Green Man Festival....

18th July 2009...

The Oasis...

Parish Hall 10am-4pm....

Free Refreshments, Prayer corner, Live Music, A Quiet Space...

Help needed with Stewarding, set up, refreshments team, clear up- contact Holy Trinity Office or leave a comment here.

Forthcoming events...

While I'm here, a couple of things that are coming up:

This Sunday (14th) in the evening, a Film Club are going to see 'Looking for Eric', Ken Loach's new film. its a 15, containing 'very strong language and soft drug use', so be warned, but it also tackles the issues of family life and the struggles of parenthood, drink and football.

According to the director 'it's about friendship and about coming to terms with who you are. It's a film against individualism: we’re stronger as a gang than we are on our own. You can be pretentious about this but it is about the solidarity of friends, which is epitomised in a crowd of football supporters. But also where you work and the people you work alongside. Although that seems an almost trite observation, it's still not the spirit of the age. Or it hasn't been the spirit of the age for the last 30 years, where people are your competitors, not your comrades.'

we're going to watch the film at Barnstaple Cinema, then go for a drink and a chat at Wetherspoons. We'll hope to talk about how things within the film sit alongside our own lives and those of people in the world around us, and consider how the Christian faith speaks of the issues raised within the film.

if you are interested in coming, let me know.

Andy

Calendar Problems!

Dear all,

at present the calendar, which was working fine for a while, is not working at all - thats what the white box that says 'invalid address' should contain.

any information that you would like to have entered into the mission community calendar when its been revived can be either left here as a comment, or emailed to the church office at Holy Trinity with FAO Mission Community Calendar in the subject line.

sorry about that.