Session plan Welcome prayer and stillness Flying races (in two teams for this – beginners and advanced – time flying around the track.) Travel to p:transfiguration – praise dance – jumping in the house of God! Music played through Zoom (“share your computers sound” for best results) Build. Split in to three teams. 2 Kings… Read more »
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Session 4 – Candles at dusk
Session Plan Gathering prayer Friendly inter-tribal swimming race: idea from How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell. Armed only with heave axes and armour the players must swim out into the water and stay out for as long as possible before returning to the shore (alive!). The last one back wins. They must not… Read more »
Session 1 – Christingle
Our protoype attempt at meeting started with making Christingles! We had created three worlds before the event. The Lobby, Christingle world (which was a flat endless plain that would focus attention on what we could build) and Scavenger hunt world. We met in the Lobby. There were a few technical hitches but all being on… Read more »
Making A Minecraft Christian Community – Part 2: Rich, fun and Creative worlds
Our initial choices shape the end result. We don’t always know how of course! I very much started with a couple of aims in mind. To create a rich, fun and creative community: one key aspect of this was to break out the text chat that is offered in the Minecraft world and use speech… Read more »
The How and Why Not of making a Minecraft Worshipping Community – Part 1
All ministers in the Church of England affirm upon taking up a new appointment that they will proclaim theĀ Christian Faith “afresh in each generation.” So I am going to try to think through this current experiment to create a worshipping community or a Fresh Expression of church that does just that in the mediumĀ of… Read more »