In every market up and down the land you will find a stall on which a
little man will be selling T-shirts on the premise that one size fits
all.
If you have ever bought one of these you
will know
that as human beings we come in so many different sizes one size will
never fit all.
In this parish we recognise that people are different in all sorts of
ways and so our churches and the services within them are all different
styles too.
Let's start
with the Sunday services:
In Llantrisant at 9:00am
we have the communion service which we follow
from a book.
We have a robed choir and you will get a sermon from the pulpit,
communion from the altar and the organ to play the hymns.
The 6:00pm Evensong service
is the same style except that there is no
communion
The 11:00am All Age
Service
alternates between communion and not communion.
The organ will play one or two hymns but the worship group will get
their guitars out to play the rest.
We will not use hymn books but will use PowerPoint. There will be a
sermon but not from the pulpit
and it will have an altogether more down to earth feel although God is
still central to it.
There may even be a bit of dancing.
In Beddau and Miskin
the Sunday morning services are similar to the
Llantrisnant 9:00am service
except there is no robed choir in either church.
In Miskin the All Age Service on the 1st Sunday of
the month is the kind of service all the family can come along to. Its
God centred, down to earth and has a good chance of having action songs
in it.
Midweek
services:
Our Sunday services are hopefully welcoming and churchy at the same
time.
With our midweek services we are usually less in number and the
services are shorter in length.
We follow the service book, still have sermon, prayers and communion
but take out the hymns and some other bits. It's the kind of atmosphere
where if you really have a question you can ask it.
Other Services:
There are other times when we come together to pray publicly and if
it's
a special day e.g. St David's Day then we may put on an extra evening
service.
Our aim is to be the complete opposite of a one size one stop
T-shirt
shop.
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