GREENBELT FESTIVAL SESSIONS, AUG24-27, KETTERING UK

THE LIVING ROOM
FRIDAY 10:30

COMPASSION

Many of our churches deliver compassion through programmes and networks. Dave explores what it means to live in compassion and to centre our churches on connection with our neighbourhoods. He will give inspiration, share wisdom and bring encouragement to us as we think how we can transform our churches by risk-taking, adventurous kindness and radical hospitality. Dave has a dream for the world and he believes the church can be a catalyst for a new way of living together in ways which encourage equality, allow for growth, build trusting relationships and transform pain and trauma. Come and be challenged and changed to start living compassion more boldly, with greater wisdom, in community which reflects the love of God for all creation.

PAGODA
SATURDAY 17:00

BEING/NOT BEING A SELF-RIGHTEOUS BASTARD

All my life I’ve sought to be a ‘righteous person’, only all too often to be a ‘self-righteous bastard’. For someone as combative, dominating and intimidating as me, the quest to ‘be right’ and ‘do right’, regardless of the consequences, means I have done a lot of damage. These days instead of focusing on righteousness in myself, I focus on righteousness in others, for others and with others. And it is working out a lot better for everybody.

THE LIVING ROOM
SATURDAY 11:00

TABLETOP CONVERSATIONS – COMMUNITY

Community worker Dave Andrews has lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised people in Australia, Afghanistan, India and Nepal for over 50 years. Lets talk together about ways in which we can build community in our neighbour-hoods and live in a way that encourages equity, justice and compassion.

TREEHOUSE
SUNDAY 17:30

BECOMING A WEIRDY, BEARDY, KIND-OLD ELDER

I don’t want to merely become ‘older’ but become an ‘elder’ – not simply ‘age-ing’ but ‘sage-ing’ – nurturing regenerative engagement in our world on the margins of my own religion and other religions. I aspire to be what Martin Wroe once said of me: ‘I like to think of Dave Andrews as a weirdy, beardy, proverbially wise-old, kind-old, be-slippered, fire-sided, snoozy, fearless, story-telling, grand-fatherly, rugged, tribal-leader.’ This is my story.

Dave Andrews has lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised people in Australia, Afghanistan, India and Nepal for over 50 years.

• quote David Busch
  ….enigmatic, paradoxical, yet disarmingly honest. An authentic, radical Christian, whose integrity and lived, costly commitment to the God of transforming love both inspires and disturbs
• quote Mike Riddell
  …one of the leading prophetic voices of our time

Dave Andrews