Sunday, March 09, 2014

LENT 1 @ Scone today at 9.30am




   It went OK, but not everything worked!! That's OK, there were experiments and they were acknowledged as such... I do get frustrated when a song file doesn't play after being inserted into a slide, when it has played several times in preparation... so we missed "Bad" U2 by Luka Bloom as a backing for our activity...
Explaining some things we were doing went too long and my hunch that [2] songs would have been better was correct. At the same time people's annoyance when things go over one hour frustrates me as they also prefer [4] communal songs if not [5]... The announcements placed at the start and taking up time give away the focus of the community on itself or at worst a lack of understanding of the need for this time to be curated as an experience for multiple learning styles, different cultural needs and a missional edge. That's alright, 2 weeks time will only go for 45mins to give the time back...
   Pictured are dry leaves with words, sentences, scribbles of owning up, lament, hopes and thoughts of alienation and distance... I probably shouldn't have said I'd love to take a chainsaw to the pews when I invited people into a discussion in [3]s. People appreciated thoughts springing from Al McRae's great LENT EVENT stuff.

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