{"id":4225,"date":"2021-03-29T20:45:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/?page_id=4225"},"modified":"2021-04-13T21:35:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:35:19","slug":"messy-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/?page_id=4225","title":{"rendered":"Messy Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/messey-10-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/messey-10-rotated.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/messey-10-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Palm Sunday 25 March 2021 our worship service was lead by Rev Keith Robinson and his wife Roz Robinson in our first &#8220;Messy Church&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have in the past had what I would call a traditional worship service. This was our first experience of a very different worship service.&nbsp; I found it very interesting and enjoyable.&nbsp; The big change was being involved in an activity (Making up &#8220;Show&#8221; bags).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a time of thinking about the symbolism of what went into the show bags and a time to discuss within our small groups our thoughts about what the contents symbolised and a time to get to know more about the people we worship with each Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes we sang Hymns (the first time in about a year), had time to pray, Bible readings and a sermon.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following are some pictures of the &#8220;Mesey Church&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"639\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-5.png 639w, https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-5-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><figcaption>OK. This is different!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"638\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-4.png 638w, https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-4-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption>The makings of the show bags.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"354\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-9.png 354w, https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/messey-9-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption>Yes we had palm fronds, just like the Bible story<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Palm Sunday 25 March 2021 our worship service was lead by Rev Keith Robinson and his wife Roz Robinson in our first &#8220;Messy Church&#8221;. We have in the past had what I would call a traditional worship service. This was our first experience of a very different worship service.&nbsp; I found it very interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/?page_id=4225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Messy Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4225\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}