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My now traditional 'People's Table Project' run of Advent/Christmas services extended to three 'Seeds' neighbourhoods this year for the first time ever! The service was based on the traditional Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols which has its origins in Cornwall. I downloaded the Proost video series Nine to which I added a few videos …
We enjoyed participating in the blessing of Anthony and Ruth's little one Isaac in the backyard at Footscray. I hadn't done much around placenta burial in a ritual sense and it was interesting to explore different traditions and work on the words below. Rachael helped 'midwife' Isaac through a long labour and so her emotion …
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May you... be light and life (John 1) May you... choose the good over the evil. May you... know your esteemed place in the Economy of God May you... buy in, sell out, and learn how to be ‘not Egypt’ May you... be honest and courageous and at least a little bit wild So that …
I have been working on a prayer response to a session on 'Questioning' by Peter Chapman for young people at this coming weekend's Common Rule Retreat . This theme is one close to my heart as one of the queries we embrace as part of the Seeds Covenant is: "How do the questions from the …
I used this as a prelude for our Family Nativity Service at Footscray Baptist Church this morning. Assuming that I had made a AV mistake, one person came up to me to say that I had left my computer on-screen and that everyone in the congregation could see it. I told him to have a …
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Every time we lift up this bread in the central ritual act of what it means to be church, are we supposed to be remembering a celebration of shared abundance in the teeth of an economy of engineered scarcity? How would that impact the life of the church if we understood that ritual like that? …
Gustav Dore, 1865. Reader 1: As we prepare ourselves to hear the Word today, our prayers of preparation and confession, for ourselves and for our broken world, are shaped by the story of Hagar. Alone as an exiled slave woman, cast out in the wilderness with her son near death, Hagar cries to God in …
A memorable Aussie wedding....hay bales, hot summers day and a really diverse crowd sitting in a circle in the 'bush', (including heaps of people from the open meals they run at their church). This was the rant that I gave at Phil and Leanne's Wedding early this year which was based on their 3 chosen …
WRUW4? ADVENT 07 What are you Waiting For? words, story, music and interactive stations for Christmas alterntatives While you Wait ! WELCOME...to this reflective space curated by Seeds for Advent 2007. Seeds describes the types of conversation, relational connections, and commitments that have emerged out of the life of Urban Seed, which began as an …
Cant keep the man down! Mark Pierson pulls off another masterstroke setting up 14 reflection stations across the beautiful grounds and builidngs of the Montsalvat artists colony for 350 people as part of a World Vision staff prayer day. The title was "Looking for Loopholes in Love" which explored the story of The Good Samaritan. …
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