With the new academic year in September, the stuff that we do as the Lab - our structure and organisation - is going to change quite dramatically. In order to continue realising our identity as a community, we feel that we need to change the way we organise ourselves, becoming much more networked and organic, rather than centred on a specific meeting.

We aim to live out our faith together, enjoying each other’s company and hospitality, as well as living missionally together. Because of this, the majority of what the Lab “does” is dis-organised, spontaneous and organic - and often slips under the radar. However, to encourage and equip each other for our lives spent together, and to do mission and social justice together, we will also have some arranged events and projects which will serve as “hubs” for the Lab “network” to gather.

The main change in September will be that we will no longer have a weekly Sunday meeting, but instead Foodface will form the hub where everyone will come together to eat and share together. Briefly before Foodface, and occasionally afterwards, we will also be creating space for worship and prayer.

Then during the rest of the week, there will be the chance to be involved in different missional projects - in Alway based around the Lab House, in Newport City Centre and elsewhere. We are currently in the process of working out what these will look like.