A quiet service in a cafe

I thought I post up a recent service I led in a cafe during regular opening hours. Part of the subtext was to be able to worship together without making a nuisance of ourselves in private/public space and yet to be worshipping in secular space. It was a service to finish our contextual theology programme and to commission participants to go on their placements. Interestingly, my role as 'liturgical leader' was to distribute the instructions and resources for each phase of the liturgy to the groups (of c 4 people around different tables), judging when and how to move them on and occasionally interacting with different groups to help them as necessary. I found I was praying for the participants quite a lot while I wandered between tables and tried to get a sense of how things were going.
The alert among you may notice yet another liturgy 'of mine' using the Lord's prayer as shaping principle.

Each of the emboldened sections below was made onto a separate piece of A5 paper one or two per group.

CTP commissioning liturgy @ambience cafe
Praise
each group: try to write a haiku in praise of God, as far as possible drawing on things from CTP.
A haiku is a poem of three lines; line one has 5 syllables, line two has 7, and line three 5.
When you have finished, pass on your haiku to the next table along, and receive from the next table the other way their haiku. Read out the haiku you now have in your possession.

Asks
Share one thing each from CTP that has caused you to pray for something you'd not prayed about before or for something the wider world (as distinct from just your own personal needs or learning).
When everyone has shared their prayer point,
spend a few moments to reflect that God has heard it all,
and the unspoken aspects of what we have shared
and recognise in the pause that in hearing, God is answering.

Needs
Read all of this section before starting.
One at a time, share /remind the others at the table with you:
* where you're going on placement
* what you are most looking forward to
* and what you are most concerned about.
After each person has shared and before the next person shares their information, pause and one or two people pray quietly about what has been shared (recommended prayer style is eyes open, normal conversational voice as if God is sat with you at the table part of the conversation).

Ministry of the word
When everyone has shared and been prayed for, spend a while sharing Biblical passages that have spoken to you in the past when you have been facing new challenges. When everyone has shared, are there any of them that speak to you now?

Forgive(n)ness
Look at the words of confession on the paper provided at this point. As you reflect and recognise how the words may apply to you, take the red pen and apply the ink to one of your fingers or thumbs and put the imprint on the confession paper as a sign of your 'amen' to the prayer.
When everyone has done that, use one of the wipes to clean the remaining ink from your neighbour's finger/thumb, using such words as "God forgives us our sins".

Commissioning
Form a 'star' of hands sports-team style while one or two speak words of encouragement and commissioning, such as:
God give us eyes to see the Kingdom in the unlikely places,
ears to hear whispers of the Spirit stirring in the life of the world,
and hearts to sense God's compassion for those pushed to the margins.

Afterword
Some of the table groups ended with a 'yay' shout: probably the most disturbing thing to the other punters in the cafe, but even then not that intrusive. I think I'd be up for trying to plant a church in a cafe along these lines. I'm told the Ambiance may be closing; it's changing hands. However, if it stays open as a cafe, with that kind of space and -dare I say it?- ambiance, it'd be a good venue....