Messy Church Ideas/Community Ideas: I Found

Messy Church Ideas/Community Ideas: I Found

HOLY HABITS

EATING TOGeTHER: Acts 2:46

Luke 14: 15-23

MESSY CHURCH IDEAS/COMMUNITY IDEAS: I FOUND

THE BIG LUNCH 2018

the great big walk - May 29-18th June 2018

Jo Brand is helping the Big Walk get under way

ideas from website:

Stuff you can do

Project or activity ideas that you can run or be part of in your community

All, Art and Creativity, Food, Places and spaces, Health and Wellbeing &

Inclusive communities

Also: Inspiring stories/ lots of ideas from list above

Open welcome

Germinate: The Arthur Rank Centre, has released a new 'toolkit' to help ruralchurches consider how we might use our buildings to offer better welcome and hospitality to our communities. to find out more and download your free resource.

The week ahead from Connexion included the above, I downloaded the info-Littlebeck are included

It might be a resource to include in HH

Messy church table sheets (at tea time)

At teatime at Messy Church today we put out a scribble sheet on each table with a pencil. Here are the two questions and the answers. I wonder what you would conclude from the answers? For me they say something about the importance of food, especially cake; an appreciation of the fellowship and welcome people receive; the way the unpremeditated spontaneous elements of Messy Church can be the most enjoyable (we had no plans to make a bus out of chairs); the importance of providing havens of quiet within the messiness and of giving people opportunities to pray both in community and on their own in the space, and the value of participation in the celebration rather than just listening.

But who, why or what a pink steat is, I fear I have no idea.

What's been the best thing at Messy Church today?

When did you feel closest to God?

  • Eating the cake - it was heavenly

Big lunch idea

Plant some food to grow to eat next time messy is on

Ie something quick/ radishes/lettuce

MESSY PRAYER by Jane Leadbetter /

p. 83 Chapter Prayer Ideas for the Meal time

first course: ‘I wonder’ questions engaging ‘table talk’

celebrating birthdays – gift of a birthday bag including a Messy Church prayer card

Messy Graces

Sung or said

Messy Parables 25 retellings for all ages by Martyn Payne

Messy excuses: The parable of the great banquet p.68

Through the year with Jesus by Eleanor Zuercher

Ideal for 3-11s

p.81 Blessings: Recipes for Life

bible focus Matthew 5: 1-12

Footsteps to the feast by Martyn Payne

p.64 Fast Forward

A special event for the feast of life

Feasting & fasting

Bible focus Matthew 4: 1-11

Hunger & thirst/ a way to be a king

Further suggestions, ideas, resourcesavailable from:

suggestions for activities:

Prayer

make a grace prayer cube (template available)

either encourage each person to make their own prayer cube or group cubes: 6 faces, 6 prayers or graces

could be a prayer cube to be used throughout the day

or: collate prayers from 6 different persons or family/friendship groups for one prayer cube

the prayer cubes could be taken home to be used at meal times or during family time

prayer cubes could be used for church

encourage the creation of new graces to be used at Messy church/in church/ for home use

could be spoken or sung

create prayer cards to be left on church tables when eating together happens

Table tops

Learn how to fold napkins in different ways

Setting the table

Table decorations: floral – real or paper

Favouritemeals

Messy menus – create a recipe book with story accompaniment, what makes meals special?

Design and make place mats – use them at messy church meal times

Invitations

Design an invitation and invite a friend to messy church or a church event

Lot more ideas- please share