All Saints' Harpenden

Weekend Away - High Leigh Feb 5th - 7th 2010

All Saints' at High Leigh

A great time was had of fellowship, fun, food, as well as learning and growing together. Just look at all the happy faces in the picture above!

For those who missed it, or would like to refresh their memory, the sessions were recorded and are available below as MP3 files for downloading and playing on your computer, iPod or other personal music player. (Right-click on each link then select Save As.)

For the technologically challenged, there is just one copy for loan (unedited) on cassette tapes (tapes 30 - 34 in the box by the sound console), or CD copies can be made for a small charge. Speak to Philip.

Other material from the weekend follows.

Duncan MacLean: "Spiritual Formation"
Session 1 Opening Worship Philip & Hil
Living a balanced life Duncan MacLean
Meditation Lesley MacLean
Session 2 Opening Worship Philip & Hil
Holy - ME?! Duncan MacLean
Meditation Lesley MacLean
Session 3 To BE or not to BE Duncan MacLean
Meditation Lesley MacLean
Session 4 Opening Worship Pauline, with Claire & Jessica
Life lived in the ordinary Duncan MacLean
Meditation Lesley MacLean
Closing worship Claire & Jessica

Extra

Gambling: Fun or Fatal (1) Mike & Mary Pritchard
Gambling: Fun or Fatal (2) Mike & Mary Pritchard

Additional Resources:

The Wheel, which Duncan talks about.

List of movies from the session "Movies give Meaning":
Shrek 1 Chocolat – How do we respond when something shakes us out of our traditions?
The Mission Forgiveness, carrying burdens
To end all wars A man lays down his life for another
Full Monty Jesus called ordinary folk to work with and follow him
Dead Poet’s Society Jesus showed a new way and encourages us to look at things differently.
Sequences from ‘Contact’ (Jodi Foster) and Bruce Almighty.
(This session was recorded and included brief comments by Duncan between the clips, but would not be very meaningful without the video unless you're familiar with most of the films. Speak to Philip if you are interested.)

In the final wrap-up session, Duncan gave some useful suggestions of action points for the church and for us as individuals, as follows:
Action Points for Individuals: Action Points for the Church:
  1. Hospitality – offering heart and home to those inside and outside the fellowship.
  2. Soul friendship – finding someone to be accountable with; someone who will ask ‘What are you and God working on right now?’; someone to pray with.
  3. Affirming one another in their work for the Lord Monday to Friday – learning to break down the sacred/secular divide. (Map of workplaces in the church?)
  1. Developing an authentic and ‘real’ community.
  2. Exploring the use of listening groups to assist with the above (see below).
  3. Investigating the possibility of developing spiritual formation groups using the ‘Renovare’ material.
Duncan's Guidelines for a Listening Group (Word document.)


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