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11 December 2009

Batteries Included

After the utterly brilliant experience of polishing shoppers' shoes on Maundy Thursday, my much esteemed colleague, Nick (have you not been following his coverage in the Herald and Daily Mail?),  has come up with the plan to give away batteries with Christmas invitations ("St Silas' - seeking the real power in Christmas") to the shoppers on Sauchiehall Street. Permission has been granted by the council for this mighty endeavour, so we have lift off for next Thursday. All we need are more AA batteries (great offers on Duracell and Energiser Ultimate at Morrisons right now, btw) and some volunteers to help us out. Come on, you know it will be fun!

11:56 AM in Church, Glasgow, Mission, Outreach, St Silas' |

Comments

who?

FYI, I find energizer batteries to be far inferior to duracell, though I'm sure most other people aren't as geeky as me!

Posted by: who? | 11 December 2009 at 12:19 PM

ryan


Gah, Thursday's new comic day! Hope you guys are more avoidable/less annoying than the Scientologists ;-)

....And...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FR.GADGETPRIEST :-D! Should you feel a bit decrepit then bear in mind that Bono is nearly 50 and Bruce Springsteen is 60! If they can rock concerts at said ages then, surely, you can look forward to preachin' and pastorin' till you hit the big 7-0! ;-)

Posted by: ryan | 11 December 2009 at 07:24 PM

Jennifer

David,

Well done (again) to Nick for stepping out to reach Glasgow, and will pray for the event. But could you just run over the message behind giving away batteries with the invitations? I've been listening in church, but I don't quite get it.

Thanks
Jennifer

Posted by: Jennifer | 12 December 2009 at 03:35 AM

GadgetVicar

Jennifer,

We're simply blessing people with a free gift and a kind word!

Posted by: GadgetVicar | 12 December 2009 at 10:42 AM

Nick

It's two-fold really: First, as David says, it's a free gift of something which may be useful to people (how often have folk been looking around the house on Christmas morning for some batteries?!). Second, along with our advertising, it is an opportunity to share something of the Christmas message if people ask why we're doing it. Jesus is the true power behind Christmas, the batteries - power sources themselves - are a shadow of the power that He brings. With the shoe cleaning earlier in the year it fitted in with the Christian story, I hope that this might too.

Posted by: Nick | 12 December 2009 at 11:36 AM

m0ok

So will there be an Energiser-Bunny follow-up at Easter, with David heading up the aisle wearing the costume? :)

Posted by: m0ok | 12 December 2009 at 06:28 PM

ryan

Gah, that Easter Bunny was dangerous! It tried to attack me with a hug (doubtless from the finest and most Christian motivations, but still) and I had to defend myself!

Posted by: ryan | 17 December 2009 at 10:12 PM

m0ok

Perhaps it was a Gnostic celebration that year and this was the lesser, 'evil' Easter Bunny - the one who created the universe?

Posted by: m0ok | 18 December 2009 at 04:17 PM

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