next up at grace is a celebration of the coming of the Spirit. we’ll be mowing a labyrinth in the grass at the front of st marys, walking it prayerfully praying to be filled with the Spirit at the centre before beginning the journey out. we than have storytelling round the firewok before going over the road to the pub… should be a great night. it’s on saturday june 10 8pm. this is a first for mowing a labyrinth in grass for us inspired by brother anthony from burford priory and his labyrinth mowing with a piece of string, a hand push mower, and a few sticks. if it goes well i’ll be back blogging a how to mow a labyrinth blog post as a worship trick. if it’s never mentioned again you’ll know it was a disaster…
the following week we are taking part in the minet park festival in southall with arocha and mowing a larger labyrinth there based on the chartres pattern and running a tent with activities related to labyrinths. so this is a sort of warm up before the big one.
Hey Jonny
Thought I would share an idea with you that we are running in Kingston, inspired by the Labyrinth, but taking things in a different direction. It is based on the Bunyan’s allegorical novel, Pilgrim’s Progress. In Oxygen we have created a prayer room that people can visit and face some of the challenges that Bunyan wrote about. It is open all this week between 10am and 10pm and is worth looking at, or copying…
See more here:
http://www.thesyms.net/blogs/johnnybravo/infuse_news/archive/2006/05/30/the_pilgrims_progress.html
http://www.oxygen-online.org/stories/pilgrimsprogress