messychurch was amazing this month with lots more new faces and families of all kinds gathering on the theme of 'Creation' by making a flower in a pot, designing insects & bugs from scrap & sparkly things, making & decorating biscuits and drawing people of all shapes & sizes! We shared in a rain-making circle (although it was sunny and hot!) and instead of sharing a meal in the community cafe we all had a picnic outdoors on the grass with our teddy-bear friends!About 45 adults and children made messychurch including some guests from a church in Sale who'd like to begin a messychurch. Friends came from a baptist church last month in cheadle hulme too so the good news is travelling!
This time messychurch was really pleased to welcome back several of our recent baptism families who have joined messychurch/St. Marks this year and are making friends with each other month by month. This time there were a handful of parents and children from St. Anthonys Roman Catholic school in Woodhouse Park and lots of new friends who had come through invites from other parents who are making messychurch their monthly gathering in Wythenshawe and beyond. Someone came along from Withington too on the bus!
Wythenshawe FM volunteers came along and mingled & mixed with the celebration, picnic and did some interviews to go on air next week! Listen out on Thursday 5-7pm (97.2 FM)!
Will upload some photos from the event soon & look forward to hearing from the Sunday congregation how the Changemakers visit goes this week so we'll become more involved as a church with actions in solidarity with people across our city of Manchester.
There is a great groundswell of both openness and invitation. Doors are swinging wide-open with new opportunities for creative partnership, joint work and shared expression of values. God is on the move and not to be kept in a box, mediated by our church! We're open to the changing life of God amongst new friends in Wythenshawe and the city. Long may these connections continue to build a new community of hope on earth very locally!
