Being Present, #2 in Rend Collective “Campfire Stories” All Age Worship series, Holme URC, Bradford, UK (23 April 2017)

Posting this for those who were unable to be with us earlier today.

Setting up pre gathering starting:

 

Pre-Start Music:

 

The campfire video playing on the laptops throughout the gathering:

 

Breakfast:

• drink and a doughnut

Welcome and Intro:

• 2nd in series using the Rend Collective’s Campfire Stories Devotional Guide

• Subject is “being present” today, so speak to your neighbour and, if appropriate, share concerns and pray about those concerns

Song:

Song:

Introduction to the Craft Activity:

We often show our love and concern for someone by being present for them. Decorate this wooden heart as a visual reminder.

2 x Video Clips:

2 short clips taken from this overall Simon Sinek video:-

• Addictive nature of devices (3m)
• Not using devices in company (3m)

Song:

Song:

Talk:

• positive uses of our devices for e.g. exercises, Bible apps, devotions and the like
• example of app that tells you when to move, exercise and stand
• what would happen if insteadk it told you when to read your Bible, pray or worship …

Song:

Video:

Song:

(we sang this once as practice then had an extended sharing time of people speaking out what God had said to them or what struck them during the gathering and then sang the song again while we shared the peace, passed the blessing, chatted etc)