An "Open Door" to a "Messy Church"

Last night I journeyed west to the outer edges of Wiltshire to Calne, in order to visit another Wiltshire Fresh Expression called Open Door.
Lucy Moore the guest speaker for the night , who wrote “Messy Church” went on to speak enthusiastically about her experiences in setting up and running a Fresh expression in Portsmouth, that meets on a Thursday once a month after school, and shared with us some of the practicalities to consider as well as a number of discerning words.

What I took away from last night is that we are all at least “doing” something, and that we are generally learning as we are going along. But with all that said and done, God is at the heart of what we do and why we do it, and as Lucy put’s it God likes to have messy fun too!

I think, we could all learn a lot more from each other, but more than that I think we can be a constant source of encouragement when we feel things aren’t quite going as planned etc. We can gently remind each other, it’s not our will be done but his !

So thank you Rachel for organising the series of talks, and thanks for Lucy for travelling so far to talk to us all.

God bless

Klynn