Services
What Happens on Sunday Mornings at Cityside?
Service Time : 10:30am
8A Mt Eden Road, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
We are committed to maximum participation and to the development of the creativity, gifts and relationships among the community that is Cityside church, so our services generally involve a number of different people leading us in different ways.
Our worship follows a monthly rotating cycle of services, with a theme-based communion service on the first Sunday of the month, and a sequence of service formats on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sundays. Alongside a few repeated liturgical segments, some of the rostered elements in these services include: prayers, confession, singing, meditative worship, storytelling, hot text (biblical, contemporary, or original composition), sermon, and morning tea - but not all of them every week. Where a month has five Sundays, the fifth service will involve some alternative form of gathering - either a free-form service, or an activity outside the building. This will be advertised in advance.
Each person leading a particular segment of worship can do so in whatever form, style, medium, level of creativity that s/he wishes to. Variety is encouraged. This means services vary considerably in style and content ( and length ) from week to week.
People are free to participate or not in any part of the service. Anyone (this includes children) can join the roster for any element of the service. If you would like to lead any aspect of our worship - regularly or occaisonally or 'one-off' - please see Brenda. Further explanations and helpful materials are available.
New Morning Service: 9.30am, for half an hour
Contemplative Silence: Centering Prayer
This service is held in our Children's Space, starting February 2006. It involves half an hour of active, practical silence, focusing on the 'Centering Prayer' meditation of Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating and The Cloud of Unknowing. One of the oldest forms of Christian contemplation in the West.
We start at 9.30 on the dot. Please arrive ahead of time.
What happens at night at Cityside?
Sunday nights
1st Sunday of each month : Labyrinth prayer path, 7pm.
Some months there will be no Labyrinth...give us a ring if you plan to come to check that it's happening.
This walking meditation form is ancient. The labyrinth is open from 7pm ( brief instruction ) until the last person leaves.
Sonar
Live sound manipulation and music making. Projected visuals. Prayer stations.
Watch this space for next date, or email us if you want to be kept informed.
In association with St Lukes Remuera.
Sonar related essays
The lost dimension in religion - Paul Tillich // The depth of existence - Paul Tillich // The big here and the long now - by Brian Eno