November 2017: For Goodness' Sake!
An evening of prayer for good in our lives, our city and our world. At the 'Good' service in June, people revealed all the missional things they are involved in outside of Grace - this service was about looking at and praying for those things.
Quiet prayer
Mission prayer board
We created this by covering the altar with fairy lights and wrapping a camouflage net over them. Onto it we pegged lists under various headings, based on what people had said they were doing in the 'Good' service. We took Polaroids of people and asked them to write prayer requests on paper, and pegged the photos and requests onto the net.
The lists of people's missional involvements:
Charity good
- making cakes for food bank
- chair of charity
- amos bike ride, walk, marathon
- give to charities
- funding initiatives in prisons
- story jam
- trustees - anchorage student church lse, lgbt support
- shooting star
- surfers against sewage
- online petitions
- amnesty
- sponsor for recovery
Lifestyle good
- shopping organic
- energy
- being good friends, mutual support
- hospitality
- parenting
- adopting
- grandparenting
Local good (Ealing and London)
- Southall affinity - Kathy, Anna, Peter
- Dean on S Acton estate
- Photo group
- Eagles
- Transition towns
- Allotment
- Hockey
- St Marys
Work good
- charity - rethread, water aid, cms, tear fund, kings centre, c of e
- online dating
- IT for good
- design
- service
- supporting unemployed
- teaching
- architecture
- storytelling
World good
- Seoul
- alt/emerging network
- transforming faces - chennai, canada, peru, argentina
- water aid - nepal
- publishing
- support missionaries in albania
- kenya - land use
Friends of Grace elsewhere in world
- Lis and Dwayne
- Kurt and Lori
- Mark and Deborah
- Matt and Zoe
- Helena and Dave
Gratitude
Lectio divina
Meditation on a Bible passage as a means of listening prayer.
Collect
The focus of the service is about how we are participating in the kingdom in the midst of our lives - as the yeast of the kingdom or the salt of the kingdom. Bring in wine and beer and bread and pour drinks and break bread, not as communion but as a celebration of yeast.
Final prayer
With the response ‘for goodness sake’ as an equivalent to 'your kingdom come’.
Photos
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