We make space to pray together.
Throughout our gathering, we will speak to God and listen for God to speak to us. We give voice to our prayers in song, in spoken words, and we give attention to God through our prayers of silence and listening.

We make space to share our joys and struggles.
This time is an opportunity to share what you need to share. Some questions we are asking each other now are: What was the best thing you experienced last week? What was the toughest thing you faced? Where did you see beauty? Where did you see people in pain? What has Jesus been teaching you lately?


We make space to reflect on the world around us.
In this time, we learn what to look for in the world around us, and how to identify and engage in the work of the kingdom in the places we find ourselves. We consider questions like: What is really happening? Where are people in pain around me? Where do we see the need for the presence of God's reign? Where do we perceive the kingdom coming around us? What opportunity does our presence bring into these places? What are we powerless to do? What is God calling into being around us? What is rebelling against God around us?

We make space to listen to God through study, reflection, and meditation on the scriptures.
This is a time for us to rehear the story of God and the people of God; to develop a biblical imagination, to reflect on the meaning of the text, and to listen to the direction of the Spirit through the meditation on the scriptures.

We make space to identify and discern our calling.
This is an opportunity, not an obligation, for people to voice: a sense of calling, requests for direction, and reports on missional engagement.

We make space for service together.
This is not necessarily a formal action, but often it will be. Service together may take the form of mutual service in prayer, sharing a meal, listening, rejoicing and sorrowing. It may take the form of cooperative service to others in serving food, cleaning, building, praying, listening or other actions.

We make space to remember the faithfulness of God throughout history—the ancients' and ours.
This is a time to reconnect ourselves to the long line of people who have experienced the faithfulness of god and have been called to join in His work of bringing healing and wholeness to the creation. Through the practice of communion, re-member ourselves to Jesus as part of his New Covenant people. Through the recalling of God's rescuing action in our history, we announce that God is still delivering us today.