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 ea
ch 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.
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superb! i've been waiting years for someone to do this.
ReplyDeleteFantastic that Trinity is still involved in things like this! It was the church I grew up in many years ago...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant well done! As you know we're planning one in Liverpool in a couple of weeks.. must be something in the air!
ReplyDeleteWe think we're going to be doing this again in September when we have our beach baptism service...
ReplyDeleteDream- hope the Liverpool guerilla worship on the beach goes well.
Ben- a lot of the stuff and people you remember from when you were here are probably still going on. We're exploring a dispersed-gathered model of church at the moment... work still in progress but things like this are part of the development.