Some of you may remember Nico Yates – he is one of the artists who exhibited in Beyond The Wilderness.

Off the back of our show, he has managed to get himself a solo show at The Fleapit, a bar/gallery venue in Old Street. He will be exhibiting under his tag name, “=SPICO=”.

The Private View for his show is on Monday night and he has asked me to let you all know about it. I think it would be great for us to show support for him as a connection that we have established from Beyond The Wilderness, and also because his work is actually very good…!

Link to The Fleapit is here.

Nico’s Flickr Page is here.

The show is on from 6pm FRIDAY 21ST MARCH until TUESDAY 15TH APRIL, Private View Friday the 21st March 6pm – 11pm.

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However – it is also a sad parting – as Aaron leaves us to prepare for moving to New York via a stint in Northern Ireland. He is coming back for one weekend before he goes in January.

So yet another core person to Moot spreads their wings. Aaron has been a really important member of Moot for sometime, and personally – has been a great friend and tower of support. It has been hard saying goodbye to so many people, and Aaron was a particularly special person……

I hope he comes back, there is a good chance he could in a year or so, but this photo – of which I am showing a bit for blackmail purposes, will be totally revealed to the world if he does not return. Nothing more needs to be said!! I am saying no more or he will kill me! Aaron is seeking sponsorship to spend a year in the States – and will get involved with our sister group ‘transmission’.

So so long Aaron, we miss you already – and look after yourself!!

Whilst they work out what this all means, and how we should respond, a number of us are thinking that this is just unacceptable – that a body that is supposed to represent the people is effectively excluding a child on account of his physical disability.

The Moot Community is fully behind Samuel, and we will be seeking to support them once what is happening is established. To begin with, if you live in Lambeth, can you make sure I know so that if we need to commence a letter writing campaign, then we can draw on people in the same area.

More to follow.

Congratulations to you all!!

He said a lot of good stuff – but one thing struck me – was some of his reflections on church history – when he said – that the church had to now had two building blocks in understanding forms of Christian ministry – the first is contextual – an engaging with a specific people in a particular locality – the parish, circuit and diocese reflect this – ministry to the local. While the other – the way of the friars and monastics – was not to the local in terms of inculturation – often some way away – so that people encountered this by pilgrimage.

Now reflecting on this when considering Moot – I am struck that up to now – our strategy of engagement through the website and blog – and dekhomai and pub spirituality – has been an expectation of people finding us through networks – and then coming to us at various stages of faith and spirituality through a form of pilgrimage – whether they new it or not. Our strategy to this point – and I would suggest for many of the emerging church – has been based on network where we offer a hub in westminster and other places – to engage in alt worship and its development into the emerging church – encounter through pilgrimage.
What I find interesting – is that we have recently talked again about the need for doing things in the local – based on an incultration strategy. That actually what I think we are saying – is the need for both hand – both pilrimage based – for people on a spiritual quest, and for engagement in the local – through an enculturation approach. If this is the case, then we need to consider this in the shape of Moot’s development in ministry and mission.
Martyn also said – he is a regular viewer of this blog – so welcome Martyn if you are reading this – and do leave your comments, as we could do with all the help we can get!