We do our best with our noticeboard.
We are not convinced that many people read it but it kept going through the lockdowns.
More importantly we work with online content - it is certainly something we try to direct people toward from the noticeboard.
So it is a little regrettable that the W3w location of our noticeboard is
///online.react.stale !
My disconcerting look at W3W and our church building spooked me even more when I found the three words for the area of our baptistry.
Oath Placed Snap . . .
The first two words amazingly appropriate; the third distinctly worrying!
Not so long ago we had a somewhat alarming experience when some roof metalwork fell off the side of the church building.
It did no harm, providentially, because most of our high roof does not overhang places where people can access. Nevertheless we had some serious checking to do. A more dangerous place would have been on the other side of the building which we therefore carefully assessed.
And now I discover the What3words code for that exact spot is ///actual.roofs.edgy
Mmm.
What3words location finder has been somewhat unkind to our church's front door - ///admit.varieties.gossip!
Anyone who's been involved in church life will recognise the strangely apt significance of these three words. 'Let 'em in and gossip about each other.' I admit it made me laugh. But I couldn't face adding it as our contact word set!
Proverbs 20:19 - A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.
You may be familiar with the location-finding app what3words. Splitting the whole planet into small squares it provides a unique guide to a location. It's obvious advantage is in a field or on a mountain where it is plainly more helpful than 'past the clump of trees' or 'next to the round rock'.
The words themselves are random - or so we suppose. However, when looking it up to add it to our church directions I confess to becoming alarmed. Thankfully we have a big building and this offers a wide choice - which as you will see in future blogs - is just as well.
I settled on the box GLAZE GOWN GLORY. Mainly, I think, drawn by the attraction of the word glory for a Place of Worship. Perhaps the preacher in me enjoyed the 3 Gs alliteration.
My best theology of it is that one day our eyes will glaze as we gaze, dressed in a gown of white, upon Christ's glory. See, you can make a sermon out of anything!
It represents a spot somewhere near a vestry. Why didn't I use the entrance, or the street by the entrance? That's another blog . . .
