Team Weekly Email

Hi all,

Last Friday was a success in the Nave so we’ll be keeping that up for the next few weeks. I’m off to the West Bank on Saturday for a few weeks but will be back on the 12th November to make sure you haven’t burnt the place down.

So Elsie will take the lead this Friday 29th, and Phill will take the lead next week 5th Nov when Ian Adams will be leading the first NC Prayer and Anna Norman-Walker hopes to join us for the first time as she starts to get to grips with her new role as Canon Missioner! I know you’ll all be welcoming J

Sing ups for the next two weeks are online at www.nightchurch.org.uk now.

Also, no Nightchurch on the 19th November so get planning your crazy night out on the town.

See you on the 12th, have a good few weeks!

Laura
Friday Night Coordinator

Team email for Friday 22nd Oct

Hello,

This Friday we're meeting in the NAVE as an experiment so make your way there at 7.40 if you're team meetinging. Any extra hands available a bit earlier to help set up the cafe most appreciated.

Finally, our Nightchurch leader Ian Adams has written a book!

Cave Refectory Road: monastic rhythms for contemporary living by Ian Adams is available from the publisher Canterbury Press and from Amazon:

http://tiny.cc/CRRfromCanterburyPress
http://tiny.cc/CRRfromAmazon

Ian Adams captures the essential genius of the monastic tradition and combines it with his own experience as poet, family man and abbot of a ‘new-monastic community’ to address the dis-ease of so much of our contemporary ways of living. His book gives simple, practical inspiration for ‘ordinary living’ and re-calls monks and nuns, friars and sisters to the passion of their founders as it asks: “How did the dynamic way of the passionate, scandalous re-imaginer Jesus give way to so much that is passionless, repressed and safe? How did the movement that challenged an empire become an institution parodied as weak, obsessive or irrelevant?”

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Abbot Stuart Burns OSB Mucknell Abbey

If you know someone (perhaps yourself) who is spiritual but not religious I strongly suggest giving them this book. Ian Adams has beautifully and unabashedly mined the Christian monastic tradition and found gold for our spiritually impoverished time. You can find no better guide.

- Nadia Bolz-Weber, founding pastor of House for all Sinners and Saints, a Lutheran mission church in Denver Colorado and author of 'Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television' (Seabury 2008).

This book is a gem. For those seeking to follow in the way of Christ today, Ian opens up the gifts and insights of religious communities in a very imaginative fashion. He manages the difficult art of writing in a way that has real depth but is still accessible and easy to grasp. It's heartfelt and inspired.

- Jonny Baker author, blogger, CMS pioneer mission leadership team leader

Laura

Friday Night Coordinator