Stillwaters

After a week or so with Urban Vision we moved to a different part of Wellington to spend the weekend with another community called Stillwaters. The core team are around 10 folk who live together in a big old house which they call the Castle. It was great to be welcomed and experience a style of life quite different to the guys at Urban Vision. The main focus of the Stillwaters involvement with the local community is via a communal meal that they host on Friday evening for around 50 folks and a church service on Sunday that is totally participatory with a rota for anyone to sign up to take different parts of the service from readings and prayers to the talk and communion. Leadership at the community is basically diffuse and not surprisingly some have called them Christian anarchists. A really interesting concept which Dave Andrews has written a book on, called 'Christianarchy'. The service was great with all kinds of people making a meaningful contribution - a working example of everyone feeling a valuable part and the 'important' things not being left to the 'experts'.