Pray Create Worship
Location: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
4000 28th Street South
Moorhead, MN 56560-7460
Cost $20.00 per person
* This is an event sponsored by the Faith Practices Table, the Fabric of Mutual Ministry (grou.ps/fmm), and in partnership with MICAH (Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing/ www.micahprays.org)
In 2010 a group of young pastors got together for a pre-synod assembly gathering. We all agreed that it was worthwhile to gather but that perhaps our focus for the event could be different this year. Last year our focus was on the future church and the role that we as pastors will have in that church.
It's a new year! All who wish to participate are invited. This year we wish to shift our focus and claim that we are not just the future of the church but we a vibrant expression of the body of Christ right now. As such we know that it is good for us to gather as the body of Christ, to pray and dwell in the presence of God and of one another, and to join the Holy Spirit in a time of creativity and expression. All of this combined will come together to create a worship experience that is completely unique to this day.
You are
invited to join us at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Moorhead as we,
Pray – Create – Worship
9:30 Introduction to the Day
9:45 Lectio Divina - Focus Text Acts: 2
10:15 To Create is to Pray
If we define worship as the creative expression of what God
is up to in our lives then our worship may or may not look different than it
does now. If we were free to express
worship through artwork or gratitude through poetry what might a worship
experience be like? Perhaps worship
might consist of a series of drawings, an original song, a chorus of singers, a
trombone solo, a dance, a unique gathering space, or even a newly knitted scarf. Is there something that you have always
wanted to try in worship but never felt like you had permission to do it? Perhaps those longings are God speaking to
you, and maybe this is a safe place to try it.
So bring your knitting needles, your instruments, your paint, and
yourself.
12:00 Lunch and
time to finish our projects
1:00 Bringing
it Together
As we gather as a
group we will all share with each other the things that we have created, and discuss
what it was like for us to create them.
1:45 Break
2:00-3:00 Worship
This worship experience will be what we make of it, and we mean
that quite literally. We will all share what we have spent the day creating as well
as sharing in the Lord’s Supper.
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