A vision at breakfast?

Last week I attended a clergy breakfast for the first time, as part of my placement.


Quite a large group of clergy met to share porage, pancakes, bacon, sausages and lots of juice and tea at 8am! I found it amazing and enlightening to hear colleagues from Roman Catholic, Anglican, Church of Scotland, United Reform, Methodist churches (that's all I am sure were there - there may have been more) sharing not just their food but their lives and their ministries. They talked about groups using their buildings - shared good practice and concerns, they talked about events in their diaries and committed to working together, and they shared prayer together.



Not once did the issues that divide their churches raise their ugly heads...



They greeted me, along with my announcement that I was from MCC, warmly, without a flicker of the "political" concerns that I have met in so many church circles...



I had a vision at that moment...



To have just such a meeting, with my colleagues in Belfast, once we begin our work there...