We envisage the following as being the basic (loose) structure of the life of Grace for the next season.

A Grace weekend in the summer to reflect annually on where Grace is headed, dream new ideas, and agree the direction/vision for the next year. This is open to anyone. Dates for 2009 yet to be decided.

Grace worship service monthly. The broad themes for these are agreed in advance either through planning meetings or the weekend with someone to take the lead/curating role for each service. That person then pulls together a small creative team which is open to anyone. Some services might have 2/3 people planning, some might have 5/6. That group take responsibility for creating that grace.

Gracelet monthly. Lead role for Gracelet will be taken by one person. Gracelet may tie in with the monthly Grace theme if appropriate. It often has more of a prayer focus.

Grace meal/social monthly

Planning meeting monthly. An opportunity for everyone to input into planning the next service for the curator and team to work from, plus anything else that needs talking about.

Other stuff We used to put all our Grace energies into planning worship. But have since realised this was ok for a season but there was other stuff we wanted to put energy into. This has been things like running a stand at the London mind body spirit festival, meeting in 2s or 3s for prayer and support, a knitting group, a book group, an allotment, campaiging against sex trafficking, joining other community groups in Ealing and doing stuff with them. Anyone can take the initiative to start or join in something and see what grows. The planning meetings or the cafe after grace are the best places to share ideas.

Grace facilitation team (2 or 3 people) A small team is be trusted to serve Grace by making sure decisions made by the group actually happen and keeping communication flowing. Currently Mike, Jen and Jonny are doing this. This team is reviewed each year at either the weekend away or September meeting.

Grace web site The Grace web site and e-mail will be a key way of staying in touch with Grace. So make sure you bookmark the site and join the e-mail list.