I bought out the $1 bargain bin at the op shop around the corner… I’ll donate them back again later this week… Dirty washing. We’ve all got it. Stuff we’ve done (or not done), thoughts we’ve had words we’ve said making everything muddy and grotty. Sometimes it feels like we’re walking through life all dressed…
This was another ‘one person at a time space’, just set up with a table, chair and scrabble board. John 1:35-39 was written out, and the following words: I wonder what Jesus’ house was like and what it would be like to just hang out with him for the rest of the day… (do you…
We had a change of idea at the last minute – instead of doing graffiti on a wall (with paints and canvas), we did it with pavement chalk on the footpath outside the church. i was quite stunned by the amount of energy and passion that went into this…
This was one of the spaces designated for one person at a time. We set up a bed in the church office – just a mattress, doona, pillows – and covered it with a large piece of bedspread-like fabric. The music was different in this space – we played Urban Myth Club’s So Beautiful. What…
The wall in the community space at the church is used as a kind of gallery space already, hanging works by artists within the congregation. We projected the following mosaic image, made up of pictures of refugees, onto the wall, so it became another of the pictures. The prayers were written on gold card and…
Armchairs, cushions, coffee table with lego, tv and vcr with episodes of The Wonder Years playing silently… Ever wondered why it’s your family that has to be the most uncool? or why the arguments you have in your home don’t get solved in 30 minutes (minus the ad breaks)? or when someone will make a…
The table was set with bread and wine – we decided on that for the symbolism. The bread was on plates which had different feast stories from the Gospels written on them. Jesus ate with a lot of people… and he talked a lot about feasts. He dreamed of a day when everyone would know…
The worship was great – they were a really fun, interesting group of young people (which is no surprise, of course – most groups of young people are), and people from the church kept saying ‘yes’ whenever I asked ‘Can I…’. I’d change a couple of things – I’d add another ‘individual’ space. We had…
I’ve been playing with MacOSaix, a program i discovered through Jonny, and created a picture of a house, made up of images of refugees [note to self: after this weekend, work out how to link to external sites in wordpress…]. I’ll get it printed onto A0 size paper, stick it on the wall on Saturday…
(confession space… there’ll be a clothes line strung up, a dirty clothes basket, pegs, and a bowl of soapy water) dirty washing. we’ve all got it. stuff we’ve done (or not done), thoughts we’ve had words we’ve said making everything muddy and grotty. sometimes it feels like we’re walking through life all dressed up in…
