[Magdalen] Need chairs for nave!

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

If you can get the group to buy the idea, a very nice way to get chairs
would be to have each person pick out a chair, not for his perpetual use,
but something he thinks would be a satisfactory chair for anyone in the
group.  And if they realize that they are each just simply bringing a
chair, then the whole thing becomes a hands-on communal action. And the
results would be fantastic, because no other parish is going to look like
this one.  The varied style, color, etc., of the chairs would be a sign
that each person sitting in them is also unique. We need reminders that we
are not one size fits all, sitting in long nice orderly rows, all the
same.  There will be people who think all the chairs *need*  to be the same
style, the same color, the same. Part of the mission is to teach those
people to value differences instead of striving for everybody to be the
same. Those ones will take a lot of work and a lot of patience, but we live
in hope.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 17/01/2015 02:22, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> Have a chair party.
>>
>> You can rent some very cheap folding chairs and a few folding tables, and
>> ask everyone to bring a chair.
>>
>> Yes, the chairs will be all different sizes, shapes colors, etc.  Wouldn't
>> that be great???
>>
>> If you wish, you could suggest a few options, maybe even get a local store
>> to offer a discount to people who tell them they are buying a chair (or
>> chairs) for your new location.
>>
>
> Something I have known is to invite people to sponsor a chair, a little
> plaque being placed on the back to indicate their sponsorship.
>
> Roger
>