Monday, June 07, 2004

Labyrinth in a country church?

Just got back from the first session in the Gospel & Mission module of my course. A guy called Tony Windross, vicar of St Peter's, Sheringham was with us. He has just published a book (The Thoughtful Guide to Faith, O Books, New Arelsford, Hants). He seems to have a very non-theist approach but claims that this is a way of speaking to the postmodern generation. I'll try to reserve judgement until I read it.

While he was speaking (reading from a prepared speech, actually) I started to think about diversity and 'going to church' (a phrase which Tony used several times). Lots of people visit our church in Bacton; some of them sign the visitor's book; some put requests in the prayer book. Some wander round, others sit. Some are one-off visitors, others come quite frequently.

What more could we offer them? Some suitable literature? What about a labyrinth of some kind? Something which would offer a tour of the church (catering for those who appreciate church history & architecture etc) and combining that with the idea of prayer stations and different focuses for prayer. Since the church is unattended there are some obvious security implications - anything high or even medium tech would be susceptible to light fingers but surely we could offer something? It's worth thinking about...

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