Grace - fresh vital worship since 1993

November 2018: 25th Anniversary Grace

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Grace began on Sunday 7th November 1993, with a service called ‘Grace’ and Dave Tomlinson as guest speaker. We can't quite believe that was a quarter of a century ago. The evening revolved around a celebratory meal, with plenty of stuff to bring back memories, and also looking to the future - Grace 50th in 2043?

It was great to be joined by many old friends and members. Matt and friends provided the soundtrack. There was a timeline with flyers along the floor. There was Grace memorabilia. We attempted to recreate the old 'stack of TVs' with modern flat screens. Lynda made a birthday cake. The event ran until midnight or so.

Grace 25 video clip

A walk around the space at about 11pm. The meal is over and some people have gone.

Grace XXV zine

We have created a 64-page full colour zine to mark 25 years of Grace - it grew into a small book really. But it could have been two or three times as big!

Click here or on the image above to open it in your browser. You can then download it to keep. It's 57.5Mb so maybe best to open it when you're on wifi. Takes a few seconds but it's worth it!

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Mixing before the meal.

 

Adam and Kathy Baxter.

Simon Burrell and Joel Baker.

Digital Pilgrimz provided the music.

Drum'n'bass.

Matt's t-shirt.

The meal.

 

 

 

 

The cheese course, in front of Olwen and Dave Holme.

Co-founder Mike Starkey sends anniversary congratulations.

Jenny Baker addresses us.

 

Jenny cuts the cake.

The menus, one at each place.

The stamp for the menu envelope.

The birthday cake.

The birthday cake after serving.

Table of memorabilia.

Minidiscs, used c.1998-2005.

Article in Arena 1996 about 'God in the House', mentioning Grace.

The timeline 1993-2018. A timeline is a great way to understand the scale of elapsed time, because your mind tends to stretch one period or compress another.

 

 

Write when you first came to Grace on a post-it note and stick it on the timeline.

Each year has that year's flyers. The whole thing is held together with 'fragile' tape, because we always said 'Grace is fragile and could end anytime' (and here we are after 25 years...) The tape also cuts to read 'agile'.

The LED logo created for Ten in 2003. It appears to be just a line of lights on a circuit board...

...but rapid movement of the head or camera spreads the line out into a logo in the air.

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