Food n Fellowship

Jesus often shared food with His friends and He did amazing things with a few fish and some loaves of bread (Matt 14:13-21, Matt 15:32-38)

So.....this Friday we are having a Food n Fellowship night.

Bring some friends and someone will pop down to the chippy !

Where To Now ?

After all the brainstorming of the last few weeks, Derek will be taking the lead this Friday and giving a short talk (he says not a sermon), more a reflection of where we have come from and where the church is now nationally and internationally with Fresh Expressions of Church.

Where does the Friday Service fit in to this ? and where are we going ?

Update.....

I think we are getting there.
Here are some of the thoughts from last nights meeting (10th) , sorry if I've missed anything...please add anything I've forgotten.

We watched a DVD about Hope08 http://www.hope08.com/
This inspired some of us that action and serving others needs to be part of our service - we need to be seen in order to get the Gospel heard.
We discussed volunteering in our own community, perhaps as part of already established organisations, ideas on how evangelism can take place and the difficulties and restrictions we may face.
We should encourage one another - do we need to be accountable ?
We need to be relevant, deal with local isues and national concerns through understanding, prayer and action. Perhaps expand the 'sharing time' to do this and if an issue is pressing then have the freedom to abandon the planned theme and give the issue attention.
A planned structure as Fiona previously suggested was acknowledged as a good way forward, with themes and methods of presentation open to variation ( mid week planning meetings required - who is available & when ? )
Still want sermons now and then as teaching is crucial to our meetings, as is regular communion.
Rose suggested a 4 point mission which we agreed summed up our focus : to serve, encourage, teach and share communion.

Also would like more information on whats going on at St Marks, locally and the church worldwide - We need to STAY relevant and in touch.
We need to advertise ourselves more - including this blog and we discussed how to develop this further.

Finally we want someone ie Derek to have the final say on our direction and purpose. Leader please lead us !

Friday 10th November

Although Derek is away this week we will still be meeting to continue our discussions about our future.

We are still looking for a mission statement :0)......... feel free to put your ideas on here.