{"id":3216,"date":"2007-12-04T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2007-12-04T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T22:20:50","slug":"christmas-snac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/christmas-snac\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas S*N*A*C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanolog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/7-from-8-christmas-snac.html\">Thomas<\/a> helps lead S*N*A*C (aka Sunday Night After Church) at his Church in Glasgow. They held a Christmas service this week and he shared the order on his blog. Sounds like a great time of reflection and celebration.<\/p>\n<p>From Thomas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The key to a &#8220;7 from 8&#8221; gathering is simplicity > its about taking time out > relaxing in the busy milieu of Advent. 7 readings. 7 songs. No commentary. Participation. Contribution. Darkness interspersed with candles.<\/p>\n<p>I introduced the gathering and set the scene&#8230; then let things flow (all readings from The Message except 7 which is from New King James version)><\/p>\n<p>1. Liz kicked off the readings with The Birth of Jesus [Matthew 1: 18-25] > BLOC then played &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;<br \/>\n2. Diane then read The Birth of Jesus [Luke 2: 1-7] > Janey played &#8220;Away in a Manger&#8221; on the piano<br \/>\n3. Bobby read A Virgin will bear a son [Isaiah 7: 10-14] > we moved into a period reflection and contemplation > I played &#8220;Emmanuel&#8221; by Blackmore&#8217;s Night on the ol&#8217; iPod.<br \/>\n4. Kirsty brought us An event for everyone [Luke 2: 8-20] > we then listened to BLOC who brought us an awesome version of &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221;<br \/>\n5. Janey read A Virgin conceives [Luke 1: 26-35] > we then completed the contemplative time with another track from the ol&#8217; iPod > &#8220;I am, You are&#8221; by the Martins<br \/>\n6. I then read Scholars from the East [Matthew 2] > BLOC played &#8220;A First Noel&#8221;<br \/>\n7. Lawrie brought the readings to a close with Isaiah&#8217;s prophesy For unto us a Child is born [Isaiah 9: 2-7] > BLOC then finished with &#8220;Love came down at Christmas&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alec closed the gathering with a prayer and we enjoyed some fellowship over Starbucks espresso blend coffee and mince pies. Simple yet effective evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a great time. Wish I could participate in it somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas helps lead S*N*A*C (aka Sunday Night After Church) at his Church in Glasgow. They held a Christmas service this week and he shared the order on his blog. Sounds like a great time of reflection and celebration. From Thomas: The key to a &#8220;7 from 8&#8221; gathering is simplicity > its about taking time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/christmas-snac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas S*N*A*C<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,22,3],"tags":[487,484,486,485],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-friends","category-misc","tag-bellshill","tag-christmas","tag-headphonaught","tag-snac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-PS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}