Tuesday 1 May 2007

0:-) or "Squiggle" (if you want to pronounce it)

Hi, I've been told by my father to post something...so I thought that I might as well talk about 0:-), the Fresh Expressions worship that I am involved with. We meet twice a month: on the first saturday of the month we meet in the Tithe Barn (Carlisle) for full worship, and then on the third saturday of the month we meet in St Cuthbert's Vestry (Carlisle) for cafe worship. We also run a yearly event called Ablaze, which is often an all-night event with workshops, worship, bands, open-mic and food, and tries to include people from all over.

We have a website which can tell you about everything we do, including a forum for Young People, a podcast to subscribe to, and information about CDYC (Carlisle Diocese Youth Council). The URL is http://www.ablaze.org.uk/.

We also have a band that leads worship at most 0:-)s and Ablazes, as well as at events to which we are invited. At the moment I'm a part of this band and run our Myspace, which I try to keep up to date with what we're doing. The URL for that is http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=44944661.

Finally for now, we often prepare short dramas and talks for 0:-), some of which get filmed and then posted up on YouTube under our profile name "SquiggleCarlisle". The URL is http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SquiggleCarlisle but for those of you who've never even heard of YouTube, let alone know how to navigate it, here's a few of our videos so far:


This was Ben Mattinson's talk at the 2007 Easter 0:-).



This was a short drama about Septimus, the Roman Centurion, and his witness to the Resurrection, which we performed at the 2007 Easter 0:-).


Finally, this was a spoof of Ardman Animation's 'Creature Comforts' , which was about prayer, that we showed at a cafe worship 0:-).

1 comment:

Gary T said...

Great to see the Cuddly animals again- I am amazed at how confident the animals are on video and how open they speak of prayer- would that us humans could be likewise.