wednesday, march 1st we will do the view (our student oriented worship service) together via individual mp3/cd players. the service will be up for download the day before. you can download and then come to the view that night. we’ll all start the recording on our mp3 players at the same time and together follow it. it should be an interesting night.
playdough worship
the photo above is composed of a few of my favorite playdough sculptures from our worship service last night. i asked the kids and adults to stay seated and work on sculptures while we all sang together. the tables were full of playdough and i wanted them to make a sculpture of how they felt when they knew beyond a shadow of doubt that they had sinned. the sculpture didn’t have to be anything that anyone else would understand. it merely needed to have meaning for them. we used these sculptures later in the evening as a means of representing the forgiveness that we receive from CHRIST through the love HE showed on the cross. the kids left these sculptures behind them at the end of the evening. though we never discussed specific meanings of each one (after all they were supposed to leave it behind them) some of them spoke volumes to me.
[Listening to: Daylight – Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head (5:29)]
mp3 worship
awhile back i read where improv everywhere did an improv completely from mp3’s that interested people downloaded. the people who downloaded the improv mp3 came to a local venue and then were taken through the improv experience via the mp3 they had dowloaded. here’s their description of it. i thought it sounded great and then began to think that it might be an interesting worship experience. it be a cool way of discovering being individually and coporately involved within faith at the same time (i.e. you are individually listening to the mp3 but listening to it at the same time as others and thus doing the same things). i don’t work well on vague timelines so i finally decided that i would just go ahead and schedule it. so it’s setup for the wednesday, march 1st. this means i have to write everything out and get the whole thing mapped out word for word and then recorded. i just wish i knew someone with a cool british accent to record it.
do any ideas of what i can do within the mp3 to convey individuals working within community?
[Listening to: Square One – Coldplay – X&Y (4:47)]
yesterday’s lunch
wednesday are always busy around the youth and college ministry office at parkview. yesterday was no exception to that. though it was busy all of us still wanted a decent meal for lunch and none of us had actually brought our lunch to church with us. we decided to go to vodoo bbq – which was very good. sometime during the lunch jonathan, who loves to have his picture taken, decided he was going to force my hand and get me to take a couple of photos of him hugging people. so i obliged. along the way it suddenly became funny for the person jonathan was hugging to change their face from a smile to what i like to refer to as their “i’ve eaten too much cheese” face. i though the result was pretty funny look.
in order to the full effect you really need to look at this photo in at least a medium size but if you are truly brave then you might want to look at the large size.
[Listening to: The Other Way of Stopping – The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta (3:22)]