several people have asked whether i am carrying on the worship tricks or not. i have caved in to the pressure and decided to start a second series...
i haven't quite decided how yet but i'll create a page that contains blurb on the tricks as well as the hyperlinks all in the same place. one of the thngs about the first series is that the link from the trick then takes you to the blog entry on that trick that then (if the links still work) takes you to whatever it is... all in all there are too many links sometimes. anyway i'll get a few tricks and then worry about that page.
as a bit of an aside a few people have said they don't like the name tricks - well tough! i think they sound light, cheeky, understated - i don't want to start getting overly earnest after all...
anyway series two starts here. i'll put this icon up every time i post a trick.
worship trick 1 [second series] - the coming of the dawn
the coming of the dawn is an advent sampler for advent from sacramentis via sally morgenthaler. as they say in the newsletter we hope these ideas will jump-start a new level of advent thinking and innovating . sounds good...
Really pleased you're not giving up - the first series of tricks have been a brilliant resource for those like me who are trying to get a group to explore alt worship.
While giving each event our own flavour, the limits on our time, money and creaivity mean that drawing on this stuff too has been such a gift -imagine if the average Sunday morning congregation had to write all their own songs, liturgy etc from scratch for each service!.. (actually that sound quite appealing)... still THANKS and keep going till series 99. You are an amazing 'resource investigator' in Belbin's team player model.
P.S. Glad you're going to keep the term 'tricks'.
Posted by: richard | October 22, 2004 at 04:51 PM
More power to you Jonny... as for the name 'Tricks' I urge you to stick with it... what I've liked about that name is the notion that without some recourse to your own context and planning with your own group and own mision in mind then thats exactly what they are... tricks... well planned and chosen because they speak to a particular time, place and group they become much more!!
Posted by: RJ | October 23, 2004 at 06:21 AM
'light, cheeky, understated' and quite frankly often a bit tricky!
Looking forward to the newly branded series 2
Posted by: ben bell | October 24, 2004 at 02:46 PM