This from Andrew:

One guy got up and talked about his idea for a ring. He was inspired by the vow of Count Zinzendorf and the quote “None of us lives for himself”.

The vow-making was connected to this quote, he said. He also mentioned a dream in which there were thousands of rings, worn by young people who had taken this vow, and on the ring it said something like (and i cant remember the exact words) “none of us live for ourselves”.
Pete Greig got up and shared a little about vows - how people like Mother Teresa had taken 10 years to think through her vow. He mentioned others as well. And then he told everyone that he was taking this new vow tonight along with some of the others.
Pete also talked about the building - the building we were in - how the Clapham Sect had started here, William Wilberforce had preached here, Issac Watts had lead singing here. In fact, we sang one of his hymns as part of the worship.

I think there is a whole lot to be said for movements such as this and for religious orders and associations. In our Anglican tradition we have nuns, brothers and of course priests, but we also have lay orders such as the 3rd order of St Francis and the Society of St Luke (healing and wellness) - we have lay and clergy associatoins such as Cursillo and it seems that those who are involved in these groups, orders, associatoins are the ones who are the most active in their parish and in the diocese.

Where ever Cursillo has gone it has brought lay renewal and devotion to the gospel. I for one think orders are a great thing.

Sister S helped me and my predecessor run our Youth Group. She was young, energetic and spoke at the youth’s level. She was from Tonga but had lived most of her youth in Fiji.

At CSN it is obvious that the Nuns were getting older and that those who were young were from the Islands. My concern is that if we rely too heavily on these orders what will happen when they become irrelevant, and will this happen?

Thank you for such an interesting post Dan, it has made me think.