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 2006 are 5-7 May.

Grace worship service monthly The broad themes for these will be agreed in the summer at the weekend or soon after along with someone to take the lead/curating role for each service. This is communicated round Grace and people are invited to express what they would like to get involved in. The lead person might need to be proactive and encourage a few people to join their team. Some services might have 2/3 people planning, some might have 5/6. Once that group has met and started dreaming they might then want to invite other people to do things in or for that service.

Gracelet monthly. Lead role for Gracelet will be taken by one person. Gracelet may often tie in with the monthly Grace theme if appropriate.

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.

Grace groups For quite a few years the only Grace group has been the planning group that has met to plan worship services. If planning worship isn’t your thing then why would you get involved beyond coming to Grace? Changing the way we plan worship as outlined above is intended to create space for other kinds of groups. These groups might just meet for a task and then disband or they might meet for a longer period - it just depends on what they are set up for. They can quickly and easily be set up within a loose structure. They might be engaging with something in the local community, a group with a focus on justice, a group to create video/music for services, a film club, a group to pray and explore Christian spirituality? Ideas welcome. See the Grace groups page for what people are currently doing but it is open to anyone to suggest ideas.

Grace facilitation team (2 or 3 people) With less planning meetings a small team will 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.

Grace web site The Grace web 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.