Shaped by….

This term Cafe Church is going to be exploring the things that have shaped us.

The evening started (as always) with coffee and cake and the chance to catch up with old frineds and meet some new ones. After a while we opened envelopes on the tables that gave us a series of questions to talk about as a group – “how have you ended up in Leeds?”, “Who has inspired you on the way?”, “Why are you studying what you are at University?”, “How have you ended up at Cafe Church?”

We were then invited to go into the chapel and look at the various stations that had been set up around the space. Each had soemthing to interact with and a short bible reading to reflect upon. In some way each asked us to think about how we are shaped by the world around us, how we have been formed into who we are and how God is continuing to form us.

On the altar, as a final station, was a pile of rough cut wood, some pens and sheets of sandpaper. We were invited to write on the wood things in our lives that we want God to be shaping. As we offered these prayerfully we were asked to sand the wood smooth.

Although it was an evening of beginings it was also an ending – Joe is moving on to a new job near Gloucester and so leaves cafe church after being with us from pretty much the start. We’re really going to miss him.

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