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To: HKMk23
it sounds as if, based upon your parking situation, you might need to transition to having additional instances of the worship service if you grow much more.

Yes. Our previous rector held two services, an 8 AM said Mass (no music) and a 10 AM regular Mass (with music); this is quite common, you could even say "traditional" in Episcopal & Anglican churches. A format found in larger churches is 8 AM said Mass, 9:15 and 11:00 regular Mass. I grew up in a church that did the latter -- a problem was that the three groups of parishioners often hardly knew each other.

But we're looking at a different solution, based on the fact that some of our folks come a long ways, either from the north or south. (Seattle geography dictates this.)

We're building up a group of "lay readers," laymen who are taught and licensed to conduct the services of Morning and Evening Prayer, and with such we will hopefully be able to form and serve a mission somewhere around the northern or southern limits of our range, with lay readers supporting them generally, and rector or deacon at least once a month for Communion.

The numbers of organists in our midst, for way too many years counted as "one", is increasing too so the music could also be covered until the mission grows sufficiently.

1,834 posted on 07/18/2007 5:10:17 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: sionnsar

See, now there’s something I wouldn’t have thought of: all the logistics incumbent upon you owing to the liturgical format and the necessary denominational licensing required to make it a “spec” operation.

What’ll y’ever do if things get so bad we’re all forced underground into a house-church mode of operations?


1,839 posted on 07/18/2007 5:17:22 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
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To: sionnsar

We have “rotating” meetings, so that once a year, we change the times we meet, and every third (or fourth) year, we’re back where we started.

In the meantime, we have get-togethers about three or four times a year that involve all the people in all the meetings. It works out well.


1,841 posted on 07/18/2007 5:18:31 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Equal opportunity" means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~~ L J Pete)
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