A regular feature of parish life has crept into my Chaplaincy work: storage. You know the problem - the puzzling fact that flower arrangers need 200 cubic metres of oasis when the Church has one flower stand and a couple of vases. Disposal of any of that teeth-on-edge-crunchy substance inevitably results in serious pastoral breakdown in Churches of all theological hue.
Anyway, our issue is not flowers, but PA, kettles, toasters and drum kits. Had to sacrifice the "back chapel" in order to generate a secure storage place that wasn't potentially lethal to access, but I can't really see any way round it without a substantial alteration to the building.
Well, for now it looks reasonably tidy. Just waiting for the green sponge to arrive...
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I admit to being sad about that. The side chapel that you've created is not quite the same...
That would be true, Em, if the back chapel had been usable as a chapel. In the end it was so full of stuff that it was unusable for anything, let alone prayer.
Becoming a store room merely confirmed what was already the case, only it made it more secure.
Plus the pit has always been dangerous, and I fear the the buck would stop at me!
I'm sure there are creative ways we could still do 24/7 in there if everyone worked together to plan it carefully.
That's 24/7 in the main chapel
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