HOST Alternative Worship

A Letter From God to Man

darren.owens — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:41:19 +0000

by scroobius pip and dan le sac

HOST | May

darren.owens — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:23:31 +0000

The next HOST will be on may 13th at 6pm, entitled ‘peace’, it’ll take the form of a stations service, and this time we’re inviting all our visitors to bring their own.

So, what’s this station business then.
A stations service, is one where you walk around the worship area, visiting and interacting with zones or ’stations’ that have been set up prior to the service starting, they may contain something to read, listen to, think about, reflect on, pray about, actively participate in, or any combination of the above!

It could be anything as simple as lighting a candle, a simple ritual, something to read, write a prayer, watch a video clip/loop or just about anything really.

I’d love to help, what do I do?
The theme is peace.

/peace and quiet/reflection/peace of our lord/peace be with you/peace of christ/testament of peace/

Create something that is self contained for people to visit – i.e. it has things that people can engage with without you having to be there to explain it. So if there are instructions print or write them out for people to read and then add what you like in the way of things to look at or read, activities, small rituals, food for thought etc.

Do I need to turn up hours beforehand?
No, don’t worry! We’ll be meeting at 5pm to set up, and the service will start at 6pm, when you turn up, we’ll give you a spot to set up in.

What about equipment?
We have some TV’s, a DVD player, VHS player that are yours to use if you require it, however others might need them too, so please contact us as soon as you know you need them, so we can allocate them for your use. We also have the ability to play music from CDs and mp3 players as general background music to provide some ambience. If you want to bring your own portable CD player etc. and earphones for your station then that is cool too.

So what happens on the night then?
HOST will start at 6pm with a short opening followed by the stations. Music that people bring will provide ambience while everyone walks round and visits the stations for as long as they like. Tea and coffee will be available during and after the service, so if you want to take 5 minutes out to reflect then you are quite welcome to do so

I’m not very good at this sort of thing…
Please don’t be shy or think what you do won’t be good enough. It can be really simple. Just work with an idea. We value creativity, participation and risk so go for it.

I need help
If you want to bounce your idea of someone else or if you need some technical stuff (a TV or slide projector for example) then please feel free to contact us.

Do I need to let you know what I am doing in advance?
Certainly not! We much prefer to be surprised.

Do I have to bring a station to take part?
Of course not, everyone is welcome whether or not you have done a station and even during the service, if there is something you’d rather not do, or spend more time doing then that is cool too.

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No HOST in January

darren.owens — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:11:19 +0000

There will be no HOST meeting in January, news about forthcoming events over the next few months will be posted before the end of the month.

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HOST Cards

darren.owens — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:32:51 +0000

HOST Cards

Just received these in the post today.

We’ve been without some welcome cards for quite awhile now, and Moo Have built up quite a reputation on-line over the last few months, so they seemed the ideal people to turn to, when we decided to order some more.

I have to say, the process is incredibly easy and the turn round is as speedy as we could imagine you would need.

We heartily recommend them.

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Apologies

darren.owens — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:05:18 +0000

Hi, many apologies to anyone who arrived at HOST on Sunday, to find the church locked up, unfortunately the month got away from everybody and no one realised until it was too late. Hope we didn’t cause anyone too much inconvenience.

Plus a heads up, there will be no normal HOST in December, our home church has an event on over that weekend, and rather than move or clash, we have decided to take a semi-break.

We say semi-break because, we are helping out with the Christmas morning service this year!

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Miniture Earth

darren.owens — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:37:07 +0000

If the world was reduced to a village of 100 people, it would look a lot like this.

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Rearranged Date

darren.owens — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:07:11 +0000

“Journeys” Which was to happen on the 13th August, has had to be rearranged, and will now happen on the 20th. [Download a poster here]

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altworship @ greenbelt

darren.owens — Tue, 30 May 2006 18:00:08 +0000

Johhny Baker writes in the church times about altworship at the Greenbelt festival, and more specifically about the journey, worship group, moot are undertaking.

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Pray Without Ceasing

darren.owens — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:24:55 +0000

Our latest event was to join in with our circuit’s Prayer Without Ceasing event.

The Methodist Church is encouraging churches and individuals to focus on prayer over the coming months. Pray Without Ceasing is an initiative of the Church�s young people, who have called on the whole church to promote a year of non-stop prayer.

Read about our part of the event here.

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New Look

darren.owens — Fri, 19 May 2006 19:54:44 +0000

[19-05-06]

Welcome to the new look HOST site, we’re still in the process of putting all our pages back up, but that process is flying along at quite a pace, so it hopefully won’t take too long!

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