Last Sunday our Neighborhood Community at Foothills shared the morning at one of our local elderly peoples homes, come boarding house. We have been doing this once a month this year connecting with some of the people who have been coming along to our Christmas Day lunch. Considering our oldest Foothillian person is 42, it is a real change for us to go along and hang out with others twice our age, its also great for our kids. We run a "church service type of thingy" with some kids songs, alt worship eldely style and a brief devotion. It kind of reminds me of the Bible studies I used to run in prison years ago, you never knew what to expect, someone would always yell out half way through something totally irrevelant to what was going on, but most of all I am constantly meeting Jesus in the lives of those considered to be of no significance. Don't worry about the emerging church, this lot have well and truly emerged...
Last Sunday our Neighborhood Community at Foothills shared the morning at one of our local elderly peoples homes, come boarding house. We have been doing this once a month this year connecting with some of the people who have been coming along to our Christmas Day lunch. Considering our oldest Foothillian person is 42, it is a real change for us to go along and hang out with others twice our age, its also great for our kids. We run a "church service type of thingy" with some kids songs, alt worship eldely style and a brief devotion. It kind of reminds me of the Bible studies I used to run in prison years ago, you never knew what to expect, someone would always yell out half way through something totally irrevelant to what was going on, but most of all I am constantly meeting Jesus in the lives of those considered to be of no significance. Don't worry about the emerging church, this lot have well and truly emerged...
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Nice photo Barro, who is that spunk in the black t-shirt?????
I'm part of a team that helps take services at our local prison. I was in one day with chris, our musician, and when we'd finished a song, one of the inmates yelled out, 'F*****g good playing!'
You don't get that sort of praise in 'normal' church!
That's what I call real praise, one of my funniest memories running a prison bible study was the guys bashing each other as to who WOULD read the Bible reading. I'm sure Jesus understood, with a nod and a wink...
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