Thursday, January 17, 2008

TILT Town Hall | What's the deal?

As most of you hopefully know, this Sunday is going to be a 'town hall' meeting for us as a community. We'd like to spend as much time dialoguing as possible, so please do your darnedest to make it for 6:30!

We will be having elements common to our usual worship gathering (some singing, prayer and communion), but the bulk of the night will be spent talking with one another! We recognize this isn't the best with respect to visitors, but at the same time it says something about who we are.

Here's a brief overview of how it's going to work, just so you know:
:. We will be set up in the lounge for the entire evening, and we'll sit in six clusters (each with 6-7 people depending on who is there). Each table will have a (pre-) designated facilitator and yours truly (Scott) will be the 'moderator' (for lack of a better word) for the evening. Each cluster will also have a recorder/presenter.
:. I will give a very brief summary of what the dialogue feedback was from the forms we received.
:. We will have six questions to be discussed. I will pose the question, and it will be discussed in each cluster for about 5 minutes. Then the recorder/presenter of each cluster will summarize their cluster's discussion for the entire group, and I will record what is said. We'll do this for each question.
:. Once that is done, we'll have a time to see if we have missed anything in the discussion, and if people have questions of leadership, they can ask them. Free-for-all! Well, an orderly one hopefully.
:. We'll finish with communion and prayer, as close to 8 as possible!

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