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AngelCanopy Arts Community Creative Worship

St John’s Canopies pt. 2

On several occasions we have used stars. This post combines work from several installations and settings. We adapted our approach for each setting to work appropriately with the setting. In a general sense we used the craft of making paper stars as a way to help participants reflect on “Wishes” and work out which of […]

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AngelCanopy Arts Creative Worship Thought of the Day

St John’s Canopies

We are folding a Canopy of Angels this Christmas. We are doing this to invite people to mark moments from the past couple of years, and to mark this moment in time entering Christmas 2021. All are welcome to join in, and by working together our personal thoughts can be carried up as part of […]

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Thought of the Day

Christmas, Easter?

God is Love and we are God’s children There is no room for fear in Love We Love because God first Loved us Love is the key placed within our being beyond time, and when we turn it we are released from the slavery of sin.

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Forest Church

November Forest Church

There was a wind blowing through the Crichton today. The fallen leaves were rustling, dried by a sunny day and drifting around the contours of the grass. Our attention was drawn to a dandelion, a last bloom of yellow on the green looking up at the yellow on the blue. There was a rhododendron in […]

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Creative Worship Forest Church Thought of the Day

Ingredients

When I am physically illuminating a text with ink, I use pigments like ground up soil, or oak galls and Iron salts. When I am digitally illuminating I use a colour pallet from a photograph of a place. Alison makes paper where the leaves become one with the page, and has a catalogue of colours […]

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Thought of the Day

Love is …

There are many words used for Love. Some of them hide the power of the emotion in the everyday, some are kept for special occasions to release the power of a moment. How many words do you know? (How many unspoken actions!) How many could you add to this video 🙂

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Forest Church

Sunday the 21st of November

The Third Quartz Forest Church Meeting We will meet again outside the front door of Crichton church for a 2pm start, (The Crichton, Dumfries DG1 4ZZ) Find it on google maps Please dress for the weather, and don’t rely on there being any indoor (or any other) facilities available. Once we meet we will walk to […]

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Thought of the Day

MU: 16 Days of activism

There is an awful lot going on under the surface. It takes time to become aware of it. If your awareness is raised by one instance though, you become aware of an issue for a moment. Small as a mustard seed. Take time out to recognise the moments and your understanding deepens. A life of […]

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Ignation Spirituality prayers

CLC monday the 15th of December

Alison will be leading our CLC meeting on Monday the 15th of November at 7.30 She will use the text from 1 Samuel 1: 4-20 as a focus and we will have paper and pens etc. to respond as we listen to some music. She also suggests that the canticle for Sunday from 1 Samuel 2: 1-10 might be […]

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Arts Fresh Expressions

The Return of Interweave

Not a new technique for ironing hems in place! This will be a creative worship event in St Johns exploring Candlemas and symbols. Not sure what Candlemas is or what will this event will look like? No bother. More information will follow as we work it out. It is likely to involve things like candlemaking, […]