Wellspring's evening service, Resonate, has grown a lot since I first turned up at the church. My first experience with Wellspring's young adult service was when we were called BayWest, and the service was called Sunday Night Live, it was a service of about 40-50 regular attendees (can someone refine this? John, Chris?). After the initial 2 weeks, and the hard slog of fitting into a church community as a newly committed Christian, I was finding myself getting to know many of the members, and after summer Camp and joining the praise and worship team, almost everybody.
The service has, over the years, experienced a few changes, and as we migrated into the hall adjoining our church building, we have gradually begun to fill the 200ish seats we have there.
But as the service style has changed, and the numbers have grown, our model of ministry has also changed.
Where there used be a volunteer 'ministry team' whose job it was to ensure they knew who was a part of our service, there has been a shift to a more traditional anglican model of service, but maintaining the style of our previous years.
This has resulted in a massive shift in community - something I'll reflect on over the next few weeks and blog posts.
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