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Of REs and Open Air Worship
OK, enough of this talk about server moves, social networking sites and dressing up your web browser, it is time to get back to talking about what theREIGN is really all about, namely holding open the door for God’s people to join them in worshipping Him.
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Spring Season Ready For The Off
Long time, no post (again), I know, but life just keeps on getting in the way.
After a very successful Autumn 2009 season of Rock Eucharist events, which took us to the wilds of Scarborough, Tadcaster and Barrow Upon Humber, we have now fixed our programme of events for the Spring 2010 season, and these are confirmed as follows:
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New Season, New RE
Yesterday evening saw the first public outing for our third Rock Eucharist event, Though We Are Many at St John’s Church in Bransholme. It is always a nerve-jangling time introducing a new version of this event, and putting it on in a room with other people in attendance for the first time can be quite daunting, but I think we are now getting the hang of this.
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New Dates Added
If you check out theREIGN’s calendar of upcoming events, there have been some further additions to the schedule, beginning with a further Communion on the Rocks event as part of the current “tour”.
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RE 2009 Tour Taking Shape
Well, it’s not really a tour, as such, but three Communion On The Rocks events across three counties in a four week period certainly gets the band closer than we have ever been before to undertaking an actual tour.
Starting off at Holy Trinity Church, Barrow on Humber on Sunday evening 8 February 2009 with “Heaven In The Ordinary”, we then take “Rising Sun” to St Barnabas Church, Swanland on Sunday 22 February and St Martin’s/St John’s churches in Seamer, near Scarborough on Sunday 8 March.
And this is all before our big Rock Eucharist marketing push even gets underway!!
To that end, Rachel Ganney and I will be meeting with a very good friend of the band (and professional marketing guy) Peter Andrews to discuss some exciting ways in which we can promote the Communion on the Rocks event to the wider church over the next week or two, and your prayers would be valued.
As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like us to bring the event to your church/youth group/other Christian gathering.
Every blessing,
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Events Update
It has been really gratifying in recent weeks to see our vision for theREIGN as a worship resource for the use of churches in our local area bearing fruit.
In addition to last Friday’s brilliant East Hull Praise event at St Aidan’s church, we have now been asked to provide some music for the Marfleet Mission Team’s commissioning service on Saturday morning, 25 October, and for the Archbishop Sentamu Academy’s Christmas service on Wednesday 10 December.
The Marfleet situation is pretty exciting. Alison Gilchrist has been invited by the Church of England to really got for the gospel message and good news of Jesus Christ in what is a particularly run-down and deprived area of the City, and she has pulled together a great team of spirit-filled people around her to reach out to this needy community.
It is a real privilege to be able to use our gifts in some small way to help set them on their way.
As for the Sentamu Academy event … this will be theREIGN’s first genuine Christmas event as a band, which is kind of odd after being together for such a long time. The re-invention of the old Archbishop Thurstan School (where we were joined on Djembe by the aforementioned Archbishop Sentamu a couple of years ago) has so far proved a success and, again, we are delighted to offer our gifts to help them celebrate our Lord’s birth.
In between those two events, we will be leading worship for the fifth anniversary of The Ark project on Preston Road estate, another incredible project in another needy and challenging area of our great home City.
What is interesting is how our worship ministry is taking off on the East side of the River Hull … so much so that I feel like an honorary East Huller these days, in spite of having spent my entire life in the West of the City.
Given the desire of the churches (most of which are small in themselves) to move forward in worship that is perhaps no great siurprise, and we have always had strong links with East Hull through our relationship with, first, Ian Cartwright and then Paul Lucas at Kingston Wesley. It is always a pleasure to worship with them, and long may that continue.
Every blessing,
David
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