Contemplative Services
These notes were written by Andrew Rockell, who initiated and developed the contemplative services at Cityside. The contemplative services took three different formats: a) Micro-Pause/Nano-r…
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Evening worship
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Evening Worship Introduction
At Cityside our usual palette of services includes a monthly cycle of events on Sunday evenings and the occasional Saturday morning. Our philosophy is that not everyone can (or should) be ca…
Labyrinth
A labyrinth is a pattern marked on the ground or floor that is walked as an aid to reflection and meditation. While not specifically Christian in origin or in contemporary use, it has ancien…
Quiet Services
These usually operate on the third Sunday of each month at 7pm. They are multi-media, multi-sensory, reflective services built around a specific theme. They generally involve communion. They…
Soap Box
Soap-box grew out of the desire of a couple of Citysiders (Stu McGregor and Adee Wood) to explore an issue that was bothering them. We have only had one soap-box service so far, but hope the…
Space
‘Space’, as well as being an archetypically Cityside-ish kind of word in its own right (we use it a lot), was named as such because it emerged from the ashes of another evening service: Spir…
Storytelling
The Storytelling service recognises the profound importance of stories to our individual and shared identity, as a way of processing our culture, learning wisdom, and shaping our own life st…
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