Okay so here goes my first ramblings...
I wanted to write something about the pictures of church.
So last week we had holiday club in St Peters church and the first job we had to do was to transform the church into the crazy fish and chip shop types place it was ment to be!
So after taking out railing, Kneelers, flowers, prayer stool things, and lots of crazy church interior things that were clearly brought in the 60's we decorated with exciting coloured stringy stuff and made it look exciting.

Then on day4 when the church was filled with 30 excited children we had some interesting visitors from the official Church directory putting together pictures of all the churches in the diocese. They said i guess it doesn't normally look like this, someone else said but what should it look like?

This made me think!!!
What do I think that church should look like... and what does it look like?
I went on this fresh expressions course a year or so ago, and basically they said the most effective way of church is to meet people where they are providing something they need.
But keeping everyone happy is trickyyyyyy!

I kind of wondered what all the churches looked like in the church directory, and then wondered why on earth we keep a record of what all the churches look like inside the building? When actually whats beautiful about the church is the people and their hearts. wouldn't it be amazing if we made a directory of what was on peoples hearts.

I find it really hard to stay on subject and started this wanting to talk about pictures of church, how would your church be pictured in the church guide? how would you like it to be pictured?
more importantly what would the pictures of your heart show? and what would you like it to show?