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 catered for completely in every service (particularly Sunday mornings) and that over time we need to cater for as wide a range of personalities and stages of spiritual formation as possible. So we try to do this by offering a variety of events, either weekly, monthly, or less often. We are working at developing further the idea of ‘resourcing the spirituality of the community’ — inside and outside our congregation. We do not see the services we offer in our building as the only way this can happen.
A full palette has looked like this:-
First Sunday evening — Labyrinth Prayer Walk
Second Sunday evening — Story Telling Night.
Third Sunday evening — Quiet Service
Fourth Sunday evening — Space
Fifth Sunday evening — Soapbox
Monthly Saturday mornings – ‘Micropause’ meditative workshops and retreats.
Weekly hour of silence 7.00am Wednesdays.
These events and others are described below.