You are warmly invited to join us for a Bible story, followed by some gentle reflection and creativity.
We’ll gather together on Zoom to hear a Bible story retold, then spend some time together chatting about it with some open ended questions to get your imagination going. “What seems most interesting about this story?” or “Which character do you identify with most?”, that sort of thing.
After we’ve chatted for a while, we’ll all go off separately for half an hour or so to make some sort of creative response to the story. This could be writing a poem or a prayer. It could be drawing or painting a picture of the part of the story that most speaks to you. It could be an abstract scribble or collage that tries to capture how the story makes you feel. Or you might make a model of the story with characters you can move around. It’s entirely up to you.
It’s NOT about making an artistic masterpiece, or producing something of lasting value. It’s about playing and experimenting. It’s about trying something low key and creative because maybe it will help us connect to the story and to God in a different way.
Because we’re on Zoom, you’ll have to provide your own art materials. Coloured crayons or felt tipped pens are great, because no-one feels pressure to produce Great Art when they’re using those. Paper and pen are good too, or a laptop, if you want to write. Plasticine, Lego, paint, fabric and thread, it’s all welcome. Choose something that makes you feel relaxed and happy to play with. If you’d rather just use the time to make a cup of tea and have a think, that’s ok too.
After half an hour, we’ll gather again on Zoom to chat about what we’ve done. If you want to show us a picture or read us something, you’re very welcome to. If it feels too private and you’d rather not, that’s just as fine. There’s no pressure at all to share more than want to
We’ll chat for a bit about what we’ve noticed about the story and what questions we have buzzing around in our heads now, then we’ll wave awkwardly and go our separate ways. The whole thing tends to last about an hour and a half, so if we’re starting at half past seven, we’ll be closing at about 9 o’clock.
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