Grace - fresh vital worship since 1993

September 2008: Wounded in all the right places

september 2008 grace flyer

we're back for a new season of grace.
[thanks to 1giantleap for the inspiration for the title - one of the tracks on their new album]

1. intro/welcome

intro/welcome
nothing is wasted story
song - my heart is restless
1giantleap clip - wounded in all the right places (taken from the dvd what about me)

2. broken table

collect a whole tile
reflection/meditation
broken pieces of tile brought to make table
quotes on brokenness to be projected

3. broken body

hospitality 'it's rare' song as welcome to table.
wounded eucharistic prayer
bread and wine shared using table made from broken pieces

4. prayers

ethos explained (ethos movie here)
candle lighting prayers - ethos words written out in night lights
ethos confession
prayer of commitment god of many names - it's called naming and presentation: a dedication by kathy galloway from the book 'talking to the bones' spck 1996

5. blessing

improvised blessing written during the service (inspired by Juli Allen)

Photos

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The start of the service. Ethos words in unlit tealights, whole white tiles at the corners of the dais. © Richard Baker.

Sarah tells the 'Nothing is wasted' story.

Leave your whole tile (your wholeness and purity) on the floor, pick up a piece of broken tile (your brokenness and impurity) instead, and place it on the table. We could go back and add more pieces to complete the mosaic.

Leave your whole tile (your wholeness and purity) on the right, pick up a piece of broken tile (your brokenness and impurity) instead. © Richard Baker.

Place your broken tile in the tabletop. © Richard Baker.

Harry Baker performs 'It's rare'.

Dean leads us in Communion on the broken table. © Richard Baker.

Communion. © Richard Baker.

Communion. © Richard Baker.

Pray and light a candle of the 'ethos words'. The table with broken tiles is in the centre.

 

© Dean Ayres

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the service Jen, Gwen and Harry stuck the tile pieces down into the top of the table. We still use it.

 

 

The finished tabletop. © Jonny Baker

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