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Perichoresis – Trinity – participating in God by Mark Berry

In the second of his four reflections, Mark Berry reflects on the importance of Perichoresis and its implications for being a participative spiritual community. Recorded on a spiritual retreat of the Moot Community On the weekend of 14th-16th May 2010. Mark Berry, Missioner and leader of the Safespace Community led the retreat. This is the 2nd of 3 recordings.

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God’s Way – Trinity – participating in God by Mark Berry

On the weekend of 14th-16th May 2010, the Moot community held a short spiritual retreat to explore the theme of participating in God. Mark Berry, Missioner and leader of the Safespace Community led the retreat. This is the 1st of 4 recordings. The handouts for the session will be uploaded shortly.

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God's Way – Trinity – participating in God by Mark Berry

On the weekend of 14th-16th May 2010, the Moot community held a short spiritual retreat to explore the theme of participating in God. Mark Berry, Missioner and leader of the Safespace Community led the retreat. This is the 1st of 4 recordings. The handouts for the session will be uploaded shortly.

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Hope for new forms of contextual Fresh Expressions Church and Leadership for the future

You may not have noticed, but last week there was some serious progress in the resoucing of fresh expressions of church. This time the Archbishop has backed the proposal written by the new ‘Fresh Expressions Agency’ called ‘Guidelines for the identification, training and deployment of ordained pioneer ministers’. This document was discussed by the House of Bishops meeting at Lambeth Palace last week which seeks to find 10 to 20 pioneer ministers to enter a two-year training programme starting in September 2006. As some know some colleges such as the one I went to in the now called ‘East Region Ministerial Training Course’ and St Johns College Nottingham has been gearing up to this task.

This means, that there will be a form of structure for people called to ‘pioneer ministerial callings’ to have a route that seeks to hold onto their calling in the interface between church and culture.

If this was around when I was going through the selection process, then my life would have been much easier. This does mean, that there are beginning to be opportunities for people who find a home in fresh expressions such as Moot, to seek ordination with a call to do similar church projects in the same or different contexts. So this is a good move for those who are considering training…. Not so great for those who are trained and are looking for pioneering opprtunities, which there are a surprising many, who are deacons and priests who have had to face the difficulties of serving a title that is overly focused on doing traditional church, and neglects their call to innovative mission and .contextual church… Hopefully this will be the next development, to create opprtunities for those who are called to be pioneer ministers who are already trained and battling to keep going. However, this does not undervalue that things are moving in the right direction.

For further info on the article in the Church of England Newspaper, click here.

On a similar note, A funding proposal has now been drafted and is now going to those with responsbility for Moot, (The Vicar of St Matthews Westminster & the Archdeacon of Charing Cross), to check the application to support the creation of a fulltime post of an ordained Pioneer Minister/Moot Project Worker to assist the Moot community to develop its activity and ministry……. Please pray and watch this space to see if we are successful. I will post the application once it has been submitted.

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Commissioning of the expanded ‘Fresh Expressions’ Team

I was fortunate to join a number of people to attend a commissioning service of the team that are to help Steven Croft (Archbishops Missioner) develop the mission of Fresh Expression forms of missionary church in the Church of England and in the Methodist Church of England.

The service was lead by Rowan Williams and the Head of the Methodist Church for England. There were a number of people known to Moot in attendance including, Jonny Baker, Paul Payes, George Lings, Bob & Mary Hopkins and others.

Next, I think they will be developing the idea of associated missioners of those who are practitioners or pioneers – which is an important element of developments, so we will have to see what happens next.

Talking with Jonny afterwards emphasised the need for innovation and doing something radical.

I will post a pic once I find the lead!!

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Commissioning of the expanded 'Fresh Expressions' Team

I was fortunate to join a number of people to attend a commissioning service of the team that are to help Steven Croft (Archbishops Missioner) develop the mission of Fresh Expression forms of missionary church in the Church of England and in the Methodist Church of England.

The service was lead by Rowan Williams and the Head of the Methodist Church for England. There were a number of people known to Moot in attendance including, Jonny Baker, Paul Payes, George Lings, Bob & Mary Hopkins and others.

Next, I think they will be developing the idea of associated missioners of those who are practitioners or pioneers – which is an important element of developments, so we will have to see what happens next.

Talking with Jonny afterwards emphasised the need for innovation and doing something radical.

I will post a pic once I find the lead!!

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Moot’s Ian & Nick lead training day on alt/emerging church for the Diocese of St Edmunds Bury and Ipswich



Pleased to say the day went very well. We had over thirty clergy present, and explored liquid modernity, the place of the emerging church, what is alternative worship and finished with an act of worship – using the re:membered element of the service using the Beatitudes created by James and Nick at our last Moot service.

It all seemed to go down well, and raised lots of issues. I have definately learnt something from the day and the implications of what we talk about in more rural areas. The pics are of the final act of alt worship, where people are lighting candles as prayer at the end outside in a Suffolk church rural grave yard.

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Moot's Ian & Nick lead training day on alt/emerging church for the Diocese of St Edmunds Bury and Ipswich



Pleased to say the day went very well. We had over thirty clergy present, and explored liquid modernity, the place of the emerging church, what is alternative worship and finished with an act of worship – using the re:membered element of the service using the Beatitudes created by James and Nick at our last Moot service.

It all seemed to go down well, and raised lots of issues. I have definately learnt something from the day and the implications of what we talk about in more rural areas. The pics are of the final act of alt worship, where people are lighting candles as prayer at the end outside in a Suffolk church rural grave yard.

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Ian attends Lambeth Partners Meeting about Fresh Expressions of Church

It was my great privilege to be invited to support Steve Croft the Archbishop’s Missioner and Director of the Fresh Expressions, and the Archbishop by sharing the story of Moot at a Lambeth Partners Meeting. It was a greatly encouraging event to hear the interest in supporting and developing the whole mission-shaped-church/fresh expressions vision. People responded warmly to what we are trying to do with Moot. It was good to support Stevens presentation with Moot as a practical example of what is happening.

Steven Croft and Rowan Williams shared some of their vision and strategy – and it was great to hear how central ‘fresh expressions’ is to the vision of the Archbishop. There were lots of gems in both their presentations, and I was deeply moved to hear such passion for the sort of things that matter to people like me.

In the Archbishop’s presentation he talked about how church happens, and that it happens in varied situations. One quote was “where people meet and encounter Jesus Christ, this is church”. It is this insight – an incarnational and fluid understanding of church that is at the heart of the vision – and one that I know lots of people like me share and long to see develop. They both described what is going on in the country as a ‘kyos’ moment in the history of our Church and this country…… I couldn’t agree more. A theological integration of doing mission AND church as an inseperable moment.

The ‘Lambeth Partners’ is a charity and association that raises money to support particular aspects of the vision of the Archbishop of Canterbury – and Fresh Expressions is the main part of this. The partners are made up of people who support and donate money to a charitable fund to try and make a vision become a practical reality. Rightly, a lot of the vision is to support, promote and assist nationally individual fresh expressions, whilst working with families of the Church of England and the Methodist Church in England to promote planning, resourcing, and leadership training for these type of project-churches.

All in all, it was a great privilege for me to attend, and was what I was needing to hear, I am very encouraged.

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Moot Foundations or Grey Space

For those that missed Gareth’s excellent article about Moot’s vision of a fresh contributing to be Church in the City, see the below which has been added to the Moot Foundations section of the website. Moot in the city.pdf For more accessible writings written by members of the Moot community on the founding values and vision of the group click here

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