CHURCH FOR THE NIGHT 'pic gallery link'

Some folks in our town of Bournemouth, some post congers and some not but all working for the city and some working in night clubs............. opened up the biggest Anglican church in town from 10pm till 3 am on Friday night. All were totally taken by surprise as a steady stream of over 100 people came and walked around, sat for a long time and posted prayers on the walls which would cut you to the core. Were all still in shock - opening up a big building associated with inherited religion in the middle of clubland, wasnt meant to gather a crowd, it was just a 'fools hope'.
From drunks to punks, from foreign students to clubber. There was this really uncool chicken wire sculpture which was lit internally and had mary joseph and jesus and coldplays 'i will try to fix you'............ people kept having their picture taken with them - very odd.
Almost every single person that came in INITITIATED conversation about Jesus or Church. One guy - one BIG guy slapped me on the chest and said ' F$c%ing Awesome Mate - We Need Night Church All Night Every Night - And I Mean That'.
GREAT PICS BELOW
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19047354@N00/sets/1596051/

SAYING OF THE WEEK

A congregation in town going through real transitions has just had an open dialogue with its folks.
One person got up, shared a few contextual expletives, held up a verbal mirror of reality which DID NOT say 'you are the fairest in the land' - and then said ' I WOULD RATHER THAT WE WERE A DYSFUNCTIONAL AND HONEST FAMILY THAN A FUNCTIONAL LIE' meaning lets dump the pretense we present, lets stop pretending to live out our publicity on the surface and loosing sight of finding some gutsy substance.