Sunday Stuff August 30

A fifth Sunday! Games, Games, Games. We have a bunch of games gear from Scripture Union (thanks, Naomi) including giant boxing gloves and we are gonna have some fun.

Check out Playing Childrens Games as Spiritual Practice

Stu Davey on the Way of Learning - the spiritual practice of learning and understanding. Stu will show how the story of the prodigal son can come alive by using a series of different ways of looking at it (including with your eyes).

Sunday Stuff August 23

THE BIG DAY HAS ARRIVED,

August 23
Bible Story for All Ages - with pictures and actions and all!
Olivia preaching on Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery: THAT'S RIGHT, OLIVIA IS PREACHING.
(Oh, alright, it's cheap trick to get you reading this week. Still, it's worth hearing Olivia and she doesn't preach that often at the moment. This may be a chance to get in before she gets all famous and exclusive through being a star on YouTube as a preacher.)

August 30
A fifth Sunday! Don't you people know how hard it is to plan for fifth Sundays!
Games, Games, Games. Elves TRIP giants when we're playing with pre-schoolers, people! We'll get some games from SU or something and go nuts.
Stu Davey on the Way of the Everyday - the most mysterious, yet most accessible of all the ways (I just made that up)

September 6
Carlton plays an AFL final for the first time in a little while. Can they keep their wonderful record of a premiership in every decade (except the '50s, dammit) alive?
Jesus Meal for all of us
Solace Liturgy - everyone can help prepare.

Running Commentary

There's a bit of blue sky and sun coming through our tiny, high-up, window in the Solace office in Clifton Hill today. I just hung our signature clock up from an old piece of string that I believe is attached the the ceiling. Stu is working here and he hasn't noticed yet.

Today I'll work on preparing for Sunday Stuff this week. I've got a short segment on Grace, getting some prayer stuff organised for Children and Adults (adults will do a choice of three praying stations, so we need stuff for each station). It will be 'beer o'clock' with Stu and Olivia this arvo: it's nice to sink a brew and have a winge with your colleagues! Otherwise, I'm starting to plan a working bee at SPACE and there's ongoing work pulling together strategic planning for the medium term. Feels like a god day to come.

So Far at Sunday Stuff...

Our August program at Sunday Stuff is going well (see last post). The campfire videos were great! We loved Cyclovia and the American-Muslims holding up signs with short messages. Our sing-along last week went really well, thanks to Naomi leading strongly and Andrea playing wonderfully with the minimum of preparation. I did a workshop on Spiritual Hungers that went pretty good; it's pretty abstract stuff, but with great emotional and everyday possibilities. Even though it's a cold, wet month here in Melbourne, we're having great times at Sunday Stuff.