Lent Ideas (ash wed, holy week, etc)

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Permalink Reply by Linda Sines on February 2, 2010 at 4:06pm

Jonny Baker always has great stuff from Proost available for Lent. If you are unfamiliar with him and his blog, take some time to immerse yourself in a wonderful site. I highly recommend all their downloadable (book)resources, there is a small fee (list is in British pounds 1.6 conversion estimate) and they take paypal. Here's a jumping off spot that gets you to Jonny's blog:

http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/2009/02/lent-resources-on-pr...

direct to proost (but don't miss out strolling around on the Jonny Baker site!):
http://www.proost.co.uk/


Another good site with really powerful, thought provoking videos:

http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/index.php?ct=site.home

Both of these sites have members here at CWT, and they may want to toot their own horns!

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Permalink Reply by Dan Bracken on February 3, 2010 at 10:46am

Here's a couple videos we did last year for Holy Thursday. The first is a promo for the event. The second was part of a narrative of Jesus' last hours.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=513812749321

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=509981577021

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Permalink Reply by Julie Blum on February 5, 2010 at 1:32pm

Here I am answering my own question. I found this great resource with station ideas for Ash Wednesday:
http://freshworship.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/creative-ash-wednesday...

I'm still looking for Holy Week ideas. Anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Nicole Eastwood on February 16, 2010 at 10:22am

Hi Julie-

Last year we combined Maundy Thursday & Good Friday into one all encompassing experienctial worship service - it worked really well and now we're working on keeping it "fresh" for this year. See the conversation on we did at the "Easter Branstorming 2009" topic. Quite a few folks shared some neat ideas, litugy, etc.

Julie Blum said:

Here I am answering my own question. I found this great resource with station ideas for Ash Wednesday:
http://freshworship.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/creative-ash-wednesday...

I'm still looking for Holy Week ideas. Anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Nate Woodward on February 20, 2010 at 12:36pm

Two things have caught my attention this year.

One is Andrew Peterson's song "The Silence of God," which I don't know if I could sing myself without weeping.
http://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Peterson/_/The+Silence+of+God?autos...

The other is this article by Sarah Hinckley--a bit dated for a take on the Zeitgeist, but still largely true. Here's my favorite quote:

Perhaps the only thing you can do, then, is to point us towards Golgotha, a story that we can make sense of. Show us the women who wept and loved the Lord but couldn't change his fate. Remind us that Peter, the rock of the Church, denied the Messiah three times. Tell us that Pilate washed his hands of the truth, something we are often tempted to do. Mostly, though, turn us towards God hanging on the cross. That is what the world does to the holy. Where the cities of God and Man intersect, there is a crucifixion. The best-laid plans are swept aside; the blueprints for the perfect society are divided among the spoilers. We recognize this world: ripped from the start by our parents' divorces, spoiled by our own bad choices, threatened by war and poverty, pain and meaninglessness. Ours is a world where inconvenient lives are aborted and inconvenient loves are abandoned. We know all too well that we, too, would betray the only one who could save us.

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Permalink Reply by Nate Woodward on March 20, 2010 at 12:29pm

Check out this installation from Life on the Vine (on a blog I regularly visit):
http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/lent-the-vine/

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