Thursday, December 22, 2005
Issues of Community
Issue of Community
- Belonging is at the heart
- Safe place
- Programme focus, not people focus?!
- Focus on micro, not macro
- About being, not doing
- Reachout – all had own team
- Support – pastoral. Will they come again? Feel as if needs met?
- Breaking down barriers
- Community in teams
- Attitude
- Expectations?
- Commitment?
- Loved
- Organic
- buy into it, 2way process
- Be(e) church
- Difficult
- Town full of people going for God
- Building bridges
- Creating opportunities for individuals to mix
- Teaching
- Challenge
- More opportunities for things to happen
- Encourage!
- Service – corporate demonstrations - but needs to happen outside of aWAKENING eg Reachout/Social/Ashlyns etc
- Prayer Triplets/ Prayer Breakfast
- Casting Vision
Big Questions/thoughts
Big Questions/thoughts that arose out of our observations on aWAKENING and prayers
Vision – Purpose
Communications
What comes first…
Break – why?
- quality
Worship
Vision – Purpose
- Evangelise?
- Disciple?
- Personal growth?
- Worship?
- Participation – relating to peers?
- Quality?
- Enabling?
- Teaching?
- All evangelism?
- Accessible to all?
- Age spread specific?
- Range of backgrounds
- Worship style
Communications
- With churches
- With key players
- Involvement
- Planning
- An overview – who knows the big picture
What comes first…
- More nerves
- Organising – distracts
- Starting points?
- Slave to system?
- Are we serving aWAKENING instead of using aWAKENING to serve us?
Break – why?
- Timing of service
- Purpose – question - group work
- Community – talk
- quality
Worship
- Need a leader. Someone to grab it ‘by the balls.’
- Practice
- Participation? Leadership…
- Time; someone always not around
- Speaker?
Sub section on what we think God might have been saying to us...
What God might have been trying to say to us (if only we would listen…)
- Need to get Vision sorted first!!!
- Core Band members… one of each of singer, drummer etc and then add in etc
- Core people would bring it together
- Community
- Not about developing jobs, but developing ministries… prophets, pastors, worship leaders, teachers. Etc.
- Strategic
- Repeated chances to do it… build them up…
- Bee – flower to flower, makes honey.
- cf. God with us, takes little bit from all, and makes it into something… everyone using gifts.
- Bee’s (again!) One pioneers, shows everyone else what to do, and how to get there, then all go for it.
- Totally change (our expectations of how awakening works (is that right Debs?)
- Re-launch it – forget past and move forwards…
- How do we do community?!
Impressions of aWAKENING (internal things)
Impressions of aWAKENING – how we feel/think during events.
(Please bear in mind its quite difficult to sum up a spider diagram/ thought-flow chart on a word processor document! I’ve tried to group the thoughts together that seem linked, but where that’s not possible but where there are still thoughts that link with another set I’ve mentioned it in the text.)
(Please bear in mind its quite difficult to sum up a spider diagram/ thought-flow chart on a word processor document! I’ve tried to group the thoughts together that seem linked, but where that’s not possible but where there are still thoughts that link with another set I’ve mentioned it in the text.)
- Community
- There to see mates
- Social, takes time to become about the spiritual
- Feel welcomed
- Hard getting people involved in band
- Concern/worry
- Hectic
- Nerves
- Not relaxing
- Disappointed – encouraged
- High expectations
- Challenging
Impressions of aWAKENING (external things)
Impressions of aWAKENING – what we see/hear going on during events.
(Please bear in mind its quite difficult to sum up a spider diagram/ thought-flow chart on a word processor document! I’ve tried to group the thoughts together that seem linked, but where that’s not possible but where there are still thoughts that link with another set I’ve mentioned it in the text.) (Confused? You will be…)
- Either cramped or spacious
- Not many adults
(Please bear in mind its quite difficult to sum up a spider diagram/ thought-flow chart on a word processor document! I’ve tried to group the thoughts together that seem linked, but where that’s not possible but where there are still thoughts that link with another set I’ve mentioned it in the text.) (Confused? You will be…)
- Worship Group - crowded
- Loud
- Good Speakers
- Fun
- Laid back
- Not slick
- Messy but nice!
- Opportunity for people to get involved
- People growing in gifts.
- Same people doing same things
- Lack of involvement
- Not equal representation
- Inclusive
- Bar feel (café)
- Food break
- Sweets and greeters
- Sitting in friendship groups
- More people turn up @ modern churches
- Different surroundings
- Lots of venues
- Regular people (linked to “sitting in friendship groups”)
- Either cramped or spacious
- Age group
- Not many adults
- Non-creative
- Lights
- Videos, or not
- Projector/OHP
First steps
Ok. What I’m going to do is:
- Try and type up all the various sheets Andy/Debs produced with our feedback on impressions (internal and external) of previous aWAKENINGS
- Sum up the main points/questions/issues that came out of that process
- A sub-section on what we thought God may have been trying to say to us during that time (as fed-back to the group by the individuals)
- A section on the big questions/thoughts that came up next
- A Second sub-section on the issue of community that came out of the previous sections
- Sum up the challenges of doing church sheet which we looked at towards the end
- Finish off by trying to sum up what we came out of the day with.
first post
testing that y'all can find this etc.
