The Blessed to Be a Blessing art installation lent itself to adaptation so easily. For the duration of Lent we removed all brightly coloured umbrellas leaving up any remaining black ones that hadn’t been painted and the one red umbrella which represented Christ. For Good Friday we took down every umbrella except the red one…
Tag: Art as Worship
The Evolution of Blessed to be a Blessing
There was a brilliant moment when I stumbled across a drama that used umbrellas as props. This was a fabulous way to continue to support our church theme with the umbrellas we had created with our Artist in Residence, Anita VanZeumeren. The drama is called “What Name Is Given in Bethlehem? A Christmas Drama” and written…
Blessed to Be a Blessing
Our church leadership chooses an annual theme for ministry and the year of 2014/2015 was centered around the Beatitudes. Matthew 5:1-10 What does that have to do with umbrellas? The Art as Worship ministry had hired our first Artist in Residence, Anita VanZeumeren. She met with members of our preaching team and worship planning team to brainstorm…
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