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Mark Pierson is the Executive Director of Urban Seed (otherwise known as the Receptionist).
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October 05, 2005
25 September, 2005.
This has been a big month for us. Dave Tomlinson (The Post-evangelical, Holy Joe’s, Vicar, London) was with us tonight. He spoke gorgeously about meeting God in the ordinary things of life. 27 adult punters turned up. While Urban Seed church will never be about having a succession of high profile preachers advertised to pull in the crowds, the advantage of us having people like Dave through is that it gives us something to promote on the back of. It’s a bit more difficult to advertise an ‘ordinary Sunday’, although we do.
Having stuff like we have this month (SONAR, Dave, Tim Costello next Sunday) also helps to create ‘the vibe’ we want around Urban Seed church (that name is a mouthful. It may have to go.) It is much easier to create an ethos by doing particular things that support that ethos than it is by just talking about it.
02 October, 2005.
A killer service for me. I flew back early from the Blackstump Festival out of Sydney in order to put it together. Marcus was at Stump with several other Urban Seeders so we were always going to be a bit thin on the ground anyway. So I finished curating worship at Stump, trained to the airport, flew to Melbourne, taxi-ed direct to the venue and set up for worship.
Virginia did an excellent call to worship using headlines from magazines that we selected and lay at the foot of the cross. Tim Costello talked with us about the ‘love your enemies’ passage. Particularly poignant in the light of further Bali bombings the day before. Surprisingly, with four regulars at Stump, 13 people turned up, including a couple of new people.
I’m heading away on holiday for a couple of weeks tomorrow.
Mark Pierson October 05, 2005. www.urbanseed.org
(This column also appears at www.sacramentis.com )
Posted by markp at October 5, 2005 06:48 AM
