Past – Present – Future… A new look to our Church Meeting, to Oasis and even to our busses

With more than fifty people logging in for a practice run MBC’s first ever virtual Church Meeting is all set to go. Next Tuesday, June 9th with a 7.30pm for 8 start the 90 minute (approx) meeting will include break out discussions on what we are learning in lockdown and sharing the findings of an interim report titled Relating Well Together. In addition there will be catch ups re Youth work, deacon’s elections, staffing and finance. Many thanks to Phil Coates for providing this excellent screenshot of the practice. There is a separate article about the Church Meeting elsewhere on the website which can be accessed by clicking HERE 

There was also a new look for Oasis Cafe this week. Last Tuesday Shelley introduced Story Time, a short slot in which someone reads their favourite bible story. Opening the feature and making his debut was Sam Joyce (left) who had everyone gripped by his telling of the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a big fish. Other stories lined up are: Daniel and the lions den, The miraculous catch, Psalm 139 and Joseph and his coat. You can join Oasis Cafe at 11am on Tuesdays by going to www.facebook.com/moortots and you can catch on any you have missed on Youtube by visiting Family at Moortown

Elsewhere on the website there is chance to revisit the whole of our Pentecost service. However, such was the reaction that we couldn’t resist the temptation to give our Pentecost Dance/movement sequence another airing. From hula-hooping to lamb dancing and from pan banging to ballet it is universally agreed that we must find a way of bottling all this talent so that at some stage in the future, live, and in public we can reprise it. Above is a collage of totally random screenshot images grabbed during the performance, but if you would like to experience the entire spectacle again all you need to do is to click HERE 

Karen’s cross stitching ticks all the right boxes

As well as being MBC’s ace hula-hooper Karen Handley is also proving to be no mean crafter.

“I took up cross stitching some years ago,” says Karen “but hadn’t done a project for a while. Then I suddenly remembered that I still had both the raw materials and a frame that had been given to me by a friend after I had admired some of her work.”

Many thanks to John Kavanagh for sending in these pictures of how our busses now look. A maximum of 19 passengers per double-decker to ensure social distancing and at the time of writing a recommendation that everyone uses contactless payment and wears a mask.

And finally Some things never change. It won’t take me to remind you that over the last eleven weeks many things have changed. However, is there something in your life, some habit, some tradition that is so set in stone that no matter what this one thing carries on exactly as normal.