Hi everyone,
The first Jazz Church community gathering is to take place this Sunday afternoon at 15:30pm in Birmingham City Centre at a place called Cathedral Heights which is on one of the roads which face St Philips Cathedral - http://www.cathedral-heights-birmingham.com/
Come in the main door in the picture and use the lift to go to the top floor.
The community gathering is a very different type of thing to the worship events, it is an opportunity to discuss some of the ideas, have some coffee, listen to some music, hear something about the story of jazz church so far and help to shape its future. Everyone is welcome but we anticipate this being a much smaller group compared to the congregation for the worship events at Shirley.
In other news we have recently back from Greenbelt 2011 at Cheltenham Racecourse where Jazz Church lead worship in a venue which was bursting at the seams with interested festival goers! Unfortunately there were still 200 disappointed people waiting outside as the service begun!
The short worship was mainly congregational singing punctuated with some Bible readings and some jazz music. While the band continued to improvise, Themba read a short message encouraging people to be creative improvisers around the vision of new creation is Revelation 21, allowing that text to shape their everyday lives. We also got a write-up in the festival paper!
We are looking forward to an exciting new year of events and gatherings and would love to see you there.
Adam
