Comments on: installations and drum circles http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: anne http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-207 anne Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:54:00 +0000 http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/#comment-207 Shannon, I don't have anything specific to add to the drum circle idea, but I'm involved in a Creative Collaborative team that plans experiential worship elements for our gatherings. I love brainstorming - especially ways to draw people close to God.<br/><br/>We don't always use stations, though we often use a multisensory response element after the spiritual talk (sermon). Thinking of your "water's edge" - scriptures animated on laptops at stations, people invited to light a tealight and float in water, giving people a stone to represent themselves and place it in a large container of water to symbolise a desire for "going deeper", people invited to have water poured over their hands at a station and savor the sensation of the refreshment that water/life/God brings. Just a few thoughts, and my prayers for God inspiring more! Shannon, I don’t have anything specific to add to the drum circle idea, but I’m involved in a Creative Collaborative team that plans experiential worship elements for our gatherings. I love brainstorming – especially ways to draw people close to God.

We don’t always use stations, though we often use a multisensory response element after the spiritual talk (sermon). Thinking of your “water’s edge” – scriptures animated on laptops at stations, people invited to light a tealight and float in water, giving people a stone to represent themselves and place it in a large container of water to symbolise a desire for “going deeper”, people invited to have water poured over their hands at a station and savor the sensation of the refreshment that water/life/God brings. Just a few thoughts, and my prayers for God inspiring more!

]]> By: Makeesha http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Makeesha Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:19:00 +0000 http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/#comment-204 oh yeah ok, we use the words stations or centers. oh yeah ok, we use the words stations or centers.

]]> By: shannon http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-200 shannon Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/#comment-200 we use the word installation to describe some tables or stations where folks could have some experiences that are multisensory and such... we like to coordinate them with the messgae series we are in or by just having their own theme. <br/><br/>one theme that has stuck with me as i think about all of this is "at the water's edge" and wanting to have the stations take participants deeper through selections of scriptures dealing with water. i would love some brainstorming on this specific topic by the way.... we use the word installation to describe some tables or stations where folks could have some experiences that are multisensory and such… we like to coordinate them with the messgae series we are in or by just having their own theme.

one theme that has stuck with me as i think about all of this is “at the water’s edge” and wanting to have the stations take participants deeper through selections of scriptures dealing with water. i would love some brainstorming on this specific topic by the way….

]]> By: Makeesha http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Makeesha Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.emergingwomen.us/2006/06/29/installations-and-drum-circles/#comment-199 we used to be a part of an alternative congregation called the tool room and the whole worship was basically one big drum circle with other random instruments thrown in depending on who was there. It was awesome. They had a "leader" who gave some general direction but for the most part it was actually fully participatory and Spirit led. we LOVED it and hope to do something similar at our church. The only thing is that it can get crazy if there are too many people. The Tool Room group was usually not more than 30 people and only about half were playing instruments.<br/><br/>I don't know what installation is...is that a term for something? we used to be a part of an alternative congregation called the tool room and the whole worship was basically one big drum circle with other random instruments thrown in depending on who was there. It was awesome. They had a “leader” who gave some general direction but for the most part it was actually fully participatory and Spirit led. we LOVED it and hope to do something similar at our church. The only thing is that it can get crazy if there are too many people. The Tool Room group was usually not more than 30 people and only about half were playing instruments.

I don’t know what installation is…is that a term for something?

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