All full members of The Great Meeting Chapel are kindly requested to make every effort to attend. The Annual General Meeting is your change to shape the direction of our community, vote on important matters and elect representatives to our Vestry Committee. The agenda for the meeting, together with chapel’s accounts will be circulated to all full members prior to the meeting.
If you have a topic you’d like to raise at the AGM please let Mike know as soon as practically possible.
The meeting is open to Associate Members and Friends of the Chapel, but only full members are able to vote.
Get ready for our annual feast on Haggis, tatties, neeps and delicious Cranachan!
As it is our annual tradition, we are holding our Burns Lunch honouring the life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, as the Scottish heritage of some of our members.
We ask those willing to attend to put their name on the sign-up sheet in the chapel or to email the minister and indicate whether you’d like a vegetarian haggis or a meat haggis.
Cost: £7 per person.
Our new monthly group will follow David Usher’s Book “Life Spirit: For Groups and Individuals Exploring Deep Questions.” The book is designed to help us explore some of the big questions about life, and to help us reach to our own conclusions. There are several reasons why you might be interested in this course. Perhaps you find yourself asking questions about your life, and how you can live it more meaningfully, with more attention to your spiritual health and well-being, but you don’t like being told what to believe. You want to nurture your spirit, but you don’t want to compromise your intelligence. You want to be free to believe what you think is true, and not believe what you think is not true. And you want to be free to choose which spiritual practices suit you.
The book has 12 ‘stand-alone’ chapters, and our aim is to consider one chapter a month. We will meet in the last week of each month, but to allow as many different people to attend through the course of the year, we will change the day of the week each month, so look out for further announcements.
In-person in the chapel and via the Sunday Service zoom link
We have made the decision to transform our services on the first Sunday of the month into more relaxed family-friendly worship experiences. These services will centre children and young people, will be lighter in their content, and there will usually be some form of sensory/experiential prayer or meditation. It also means that the needs of children (as well as anyone who may find it difficult to remain quiet for a full hour!) will be centred.
In our services, you should never worry about needing to fidget, make a little noise, or walk around a bit, but at the Relaxed Family Services, it will be even more welcome!
And afterwards: a board game afternoon with bring-and-share lunch as usual!
What’s the better way to spend your Sunday afternoon than some board games in a good company? Come and play with us: Scrabble, Codenames, Codenames Duet, Ticket to Ride, Patchwork, Onitama, Bananagrams, Stratego, Quoridor, Camel Up, The Mind, Mindbug, Backgammon, Qwirkle, Azul, Ocean Pods, Four Corners Kaleidoscope, or Monopoly! You are more than welcome to bring your own board games too.
Additionally, we usually bring some light snacks to share so that we don’t play on empty stomachs! 🙂
Pop in for a free cuppa in our beautiful Garden Room overlooking our peaceful grounds. Come and relax, chat and connect with new people. We welcome all who are welcoming! We usually meet in the Garden Room, but on nice days over Summer we make the most of our garden and sit outside enjoying the calm oasis in dappled shade in the heart of our busy city.
What to expect: A cuppa, cakes or biscuits, and a small group (usually between 5 and 12 people) made up of people of various ages (from Uni student to pensioners) and of diverse interests. You can pop in at any time between 11am and 1pm. And if you wish you can stay for the MidWeek Recharge meditation service at 1pm.
Our Coffee Mornings are part of the Places of Welcome network.
