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As those of you who have read my previous blogs on this subject know, we’ve started to run regular Sunday Evening meetings for the first time in our churches 30 year history. Actually that is not completely accurate as we’ve had prayer meetings, members meetings, small group leaders meetings etc but this was the first time that we’d run a “service”. We decided to run a pilot for 7 weeks through October and November in one of the neighbourhood community centres here in Crawley. We had a number o… Continue

I’ve been sharing about a forthcoming evening meeting that our church has been planning for a few weeks now. Over that time we’ve moved through the “what would an evening meeting for our church look like” onto the “God seems to be with us on this, let’s go for it” and finally last night we had our first meeting. Having thought, prayed and discussed different options for a format we went for a meeting that in many ways looks like our Sunday morning one but with a few practical differences. I’d s… Continue

In a recent thread - “Describe your ideal evening service” I described the journey that the church that I’m part of has taken in setting up a weekly evening service for the first time in our thirty year history. Well, here we are in the week running up to our first service. At this stage everything is very exciting and a bit daunting. Because so many people in our church work so hard to make our Sunday mornings happen we’ve tried to involve a different group of folk in putting this service toget… Continue

OK, so how does corporate worship work? I know it seems like a strange question but I’m not sure I understand yet. Maybe I never will! I’m part of a charismatic/informal/friendly(I hope) church with somewhere between 150 and 200 folks including children showing up on a Sunday morning. This week I led (playing acoustic guitar) with my wife Julie and another lady both singing. No band, nothing clever, just acoustic guitar, two good singers and me. It was one of those mornings where all I really d… Continue

A day for excitement in our family. Today we took delivery of a real piano - one with strings and hammers and all that stuff and it's very loud! Up to now my children have been using a Clavinova which has been great but it seems that the time has come for a real piano to allow better developement of techniuqe (or so the teacher tells us - what would I know I'm only a guitarist?).