Over 200 delegates from 13 different countries gathered at the High Leigh Conference center in May for the second ever MCIC. Seven came from the United States and several of us met one another for the first time! For the three of us who attended in 2016 it felt a little like coming home to […]
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Messy Church is a gift…
Ban the word “just” from your vocabulary…rather than saying “I just sweep up after Messy Church each month, boldly proclaim the gifts that you bring and use to make Messy Church what it is. Lucy Moore, Opening Session of MCIC 2019 (not a verbatim quote but shared in the spirit of what she said) The […]
Messy Church International Conference Reflection: What Now?
Leyla and I looked on a bit helplessly as the train we had just boarded to Broxbourne station; the stop for the conference center of the (MCIC) 2019 event, left the station with two of our traveling companions (Marty and Lynn) left standing on the platform. We had navigated the labyrinth of the London tube […]
A Messy Interview- MCIC 2019
Lindsey: I’m sure there were familiar faces, were you able to network with any new Messy friends? Leyla: It’s funny…I only saw a couple of people that I had met the first time even though I heard many times from people I was in conversation with that they had also been there for the first […]