At Circle Church, after we dropped this uncomfortable dichotomy between a vertically centered Sunday morning service and a horizontally centered Sunday evening service, the Sunday evening meeting floundered for a while without purpose. For those of us who insisted on definition—okay, mainly it was me—who had pigeonholed and demarcated, circumscribed and prescribed, it was a little embarrassing to have this hour just floating vaguely around.
Finally we became resigned to having one meeting which was basically a catch-all (capitalization might help: Catch-All). It became rather like the homemaker’s proverbial closet—a place of utmost practicality that company is not supposed to open.
Usually we began around 6:30, but the time was not binding. We may have been in the Union Hall, if the anticipated group was large. Or, the church office was often used to accommodate a smaller number. It was more likely, however, that one or several homes would have been used, as they were definitely preferred by the congregation and by our Union Hall janitor.
If many houses were involved, a common topic could tie together the different locations. Or, each did their own thing.
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