A New Location - a continuing challenge.

We opened up the doors to Eikon's new location ( a room above an Edinburgh Community Arts Cafe called The Forest) for our first Sunday gathering this weekend.The turn out was a 60/40% mix of regulars and visitors.

What is becoming increasingly obvious to us (as it is no doubt to all city churches) is that ministering in a city brings with it a whole new set of challenges. Cities by their very nature are places where people come to do rather than to be to get rather than to give. Doing and being church in this environment brings with it the exciting challenge of being a 'good news community' in the midst of a city community that is in a constant state of flux. Edinburgh, like all cities is a place with a heady mixture of those who have chosen to make the city their home and those who are 'just passing through'. The community that make up Eikon has been a reflection of that phenomenon of 'stayers 'and 'visitors' . What has been up to now a fairly consistent flow of 'Eikon temps' have brought with them the challenge for Eikon to be a place, where regardless of how long people stay with us, they will not fail to meet with the challenge that Jesus calls all of us to and hopefully in the process find their lives changed for the better after being among us.