Ideas for Prayer Vigil for Haiti?

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Permalink Reply by Linda Sines on January 20, 2010 at 10:07am

Here's an idea for an interactive worship that I've been working on:

There's an old Haitian proverb--No one hears the cry of the poor or the ringing of a wooden bell.

There is great truth to this proverb, yet as Christians we understand a far greater truth, that God is not deaf to the cry of the poor. And as Christians, do we hear the cry now?

We can open our hearts to the cry of others around us. By listening to the unheard, we listen to Christ. By drawing close to the poor and rejected, we draw close to Christ.

Our service will have both time of stillness and silence to remember the unknown that have perished in Haiti as well as the unknown around us locally that are physically and spiritually dying. We will also have a time to celebrate the miracles and the outpouring of the global support.

I am considering an art project working with wooden bells. I'm not sure yet if this will be an individual project or create a corporate sculpture with lots of individual wooden bells. You might want to have people donate money for a specific orphanage in Haiti or charity that you have connections with. In return they recieve a wooden bell that they can paint. Or you might have all the kids paint these wooden bells and then have a charity auction. Or you might just want to provide the bells as reminders of our duty to listen . . .
Here is a link to where I purchased the bells: http://www.caseyswood.com/shoppingcart/zen-cart/index.php?main_page......

I would like to know how your event goes!

Can you hear me, now?

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Permalink Reply by Linda Sines on January 20, 2010 at 1:33pm

Here is a link to my good friend Lilly Lewin's ideas for Haitian Prayer Stations:

http://aidanslegacy.typepad.com/lillylewin/2010/01/creative-ideas-f...

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Permalink Reply by Dave Weiss A.M.O.K. on January 20, 2010 at 1:43pm

I've been doing a ministry with my arts ministry A.M.O.K. It's an online comic that draws attention to ministries helping the poor throughout the world. Included on the page is a cartoon that changes monday wednesday and Friday that folks can embed on their sites that links back to a page with ministries and information on it. The comic on that page also links back to the ministry the comic represents. Check it out for yourself at http://www.amokarts.com/amokmad.html
God bless,
Dave Weiss

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Permalink Reply by Josh Linman on January 20, 2010 at 10:13pm

Saw this cool video that might work depending on the setting...play it then sing All In All (a little old school, but still)


Find more videos like this on Creative Worship Tour

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Permalink Reply by Nate Woodward on January 20, 2010 at 10:44pm

Here's my narrative, as it currently stands:
1. Suffering is real.
Our questions about suffering are profound and soul-shaking. We are confused, angry, doubtful.
2.God doesn't avoid suffering.
The story of God is not one of avoiding suffering, pain, or questions. Scripture is full of lament, of the reality of good people suffering. Jesus is the ultimate expression of this.
3.Since God is not distant, or unfamiliar with pain, or ignorant or dismissive of our questions, we can pray.
God wants our whole selves, the angry doubting part, the part that yearns for hope.
4.We have hope in the ultimate rescue of the world, and in the work of God to redeem suffering.
Hope is what stretches us between the broken "NOW" and the redeemed "TO COME." God redeems the world through love, and we can pray trusting that good will triumph over evil, that love will win.

What embodied elements could help us tell this story, take this journey? What songs or poems or scriptures will carry us through this?

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