Me and God - Video

Another chapter has been spoken in our telling of faith stories. Our youngest member - the maker of many of our greatest cuppas - has recorded a new video about her faith. As the words of a young woman with learning disability it speaks for itself. We are all further challenged in our discipleship and faith sharing by the openness and honesty with which she speaks.

This was recorded for her to use at her confirmation service so talks about the church, her faith, and her sense of calling....

Her struggle to get smooth sentences out means its a bit disjointed visually - the film editing has been done by an extreme amateur - me!

As a group we've been distracted by a couple of other events in the last few weeks but are looking to developing out telling about Jesus along with our blanket and some jam making during June.

Newcomers and faith

Possibly some of the women are talking more about their faith in their daily lives. I say this because over the last couple of months they have brought 3 different people to worship on Sundays, one of whom is attending regularly.

By a fascinating set of circumstances, one of these is a woman we prayed for regularly during 2009-10 when she was seriously ill, and the other 2 are neighbours of a family who are also beginning to attend Sunday worship.

It seems ironic that work aimed at developing Church beyond the walls of Sunday and the institutional structures may be resulting in fresh interest in approaching God through traditional worship.

Although the women have invited at least 2 people to join them on Thursdays this has not yet been productive. I guess this is a good thing as the women are going to be at the ecumenical Lent course for the next month so our more normal meetings are suspended. I am also minded that the period of transformation we seem to be in on Thursdays may be at a stage which requires stable membership. My decision to attempt to work with this group and support transformation probably requires the women to feel secure in a new identity before they will successfully offer hospitality to new members.

© Dave Walker