Tonight the lunch club committee met.  As church committee meetings go, it isn't too bad, it is small, low key and a reasonable level of banter.  We were talking about how to develop the work it does, in particular how to strengthen the links with the worshipping community.  At the last Church Meeting someone suggested a lunch club service - something that sounded fine but we hadn't a clue what they meant.  We came up with a couple of ideas that I think have good potential... twice a year we could have a 'Songs of Praise' service followed by tea and cake (or tea, if I can convince them...) to which we invite the lunch club folk...  and twice a year we could up sticks and take our service to the sheltered housing complexes and take tea with us.

I find these ideas quite exciting because they make the boundaries more fuzzy between the two groups, avoid the threshold issues of coming into "church" (even if its a school hall) and actually means we engage with each other.

I will be praying between now and Thursday that the church give us the green light...