Lay Ministries Service Doncaster Minster

Lay Ministries Service Doncaster Minster

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Ten Days of Prayer 2011

I was very inspired to hear about the plan for 10 Days of Prayer for our Sheffield Diocese. 

http://www.sheffield.anglican.org/index.php/home/latest-news/29-latest-news/3681-ten-days-of-prayer-for-diocese 

We took the opportunity to pray for the themes suggested in invitation booklet and also included - thanks to Murray and Strategy Group - time for reflection on the Vision and Mission of our parish church:

Hope planting

My Psalm W4T

Psalm created during Worship 4 Today session in February

Holy Week Prayer stations at St Paul's Church

Prayer stations for Holy Week in our church are ready.... I really enjoyed setting stations up today and praying there...

Prayer stations

I am praying and preparing prayer stations for Holy Week for our church.

Have done prayer painting and now looking for inspiration on the internet.... I will put few links here and I know that probably I will prepare something different... I just want to be open to God and to listen... and to understand. so much has been happening. it was good to be able to spend this morning in prayer and painting - thanks to my husband Pete who took out daughter for Home Educating Maths forum and enabled me to have some time on my own with God....

so some web inspiration for prayer stations

http://www.vision4life.org.uk/index.php/prayer-year-a-sneak-preview/prayer-toolkit/prayer-stations/

http://www.worship.ca/easter.html 

Kings Daughter and The Inner Voice of Love connections and reflections

Worship 4 Today link group this morning was very  helpful... I came with too  many questions, with my head spinning around and it was so good to be able to come and listen to God. I brought 2 chapters from my very favourite Henry Nouwen's book The Inner Voice of Love and we read it and read bible reading and had some time for reflection and prayer... I did this picture...

The picture was - and is for me searching the place of stillness, coming to the cross, coming as I am and bringing together those many, many questions and struggles... it was such a blessing to be able to talk and pray and share with my link group people.... to hear from one another and to pray together...  and of course this picture was just one part of the journey...


later today, after visiting Wilderness Exhibition I drew this one and its King's Daugher coming back again... she just keeps returning :)

 

King's Daugher is for me the journey of continuing discovery of who I am, as me, before God... it is part of my journey, questions, passion in my heart

 to find the way for women to come together and share this exploring of connections between being woman and spirituality, identity of woman, using creativity... I just still can't put in words easily, but tried to share this with few other women and I trust this is something about God's call... its not about excluding men, its about deepening of who I am, who we are without our roles and jobs.... coming to the inner voice of love... where is our heart, connecting with our heart and connecting with God - in new ways, creative ways... receiving God's love in new ways and then to be able to go and give that love to others.... connecting with God in worship, prayer, creativity, spirituality.... complexity embraced and transformed in simplicity that is not over simple... trusting and walking in faith... women of faith....

Preparations for exhibition

http://wilderness-exhibition.com/

Title:    Wilderness journey I.
Opening invitation - entering the journey 

Medium:  Watercolors and acrylic paints
March 2011

Title:   Wilderness journey II.
Journey through and within 

Medium:  Watercolors and acrylic paints
March 2011
 

Title:    Wilderness Journey III.
Embracing the wilderness- Arrival and coming home

Medium:  Watercolors and acrylic paints
March 2011
 

Title:   The night in the wilderness
Being still and in awe of God's glory

Medium:  Acrylic paints and texture medium
March 2011
 

Creative Prayer at St Pauls

13th March service - 5th anniversary re-ordering of our church

On Sunday 13th March 2011 we celebrated 5th anniversary of opening our church after re-ordering. Number of organisations presented posters and tables describing their activites within church building. I created one poster that brought photos as illustrations of creative prayers at St Pauls and I also prepare small drawing, prayer card that was given to people as a part of prayer activity during the service.

Look at your hands, see the touch and the tenderness –

God's own for the world.
Look at your feet, see the path and the direction –
God's own for the world.
Look at your heart, see the fire and the love –
God's own for the world.
Look at the cross, see God’s son and our saviour –
God's own for the world.
This is God's world, and we will serve God in it.

From 'A WEE WORSHIP BOOK' (Wild Goose Publications, 1999)
Text (c) 1999 WGRG/ Wild Goose Resource Group, Iona Community. Glasgow G2 3DH, Scotland. wgrg@iona.org.uk; www.wgrg.co.uk. Reproduced by permission.

Worship and Art

I just found that my article is online now in March Spotlight magazine :)

http://sheffieldchristianeducationcouncil.giving.officelive.com/Documents/Spot%20A5%20Mar11.pdf

Be still

"Be still, and know that I am God: 
I will be exalted among the heathen, 
I will be exalted in the earth." 

Psalm 46:10

Prayer Painting Come as you are

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Prayer Painting Come as you are

View more presentations from Jana Sandford.

Creative Family Service 20th February 2011

Creative Family Service

Reading: 1 Corinthians 3: 10-11, 16-23

Watching the video clip "All Are Weldome" 

Two groups invited to explore the theme either in discussion group, or using art materials provided. And all coming together and bringing pictures and words to the tree and to the symbol of God's hands.