Art as Prayer - Interactive Prayer Stations Workshop

I've been contemplating how to explain an upcoming workshop I'll be leading/teaching/sharing on August 22 & 23rd at a Province V/Diocese of Chicago Christian Formation/Education conference, "Whose Church Is It Anyway" in Mundelein, IL. I'll be using 10 -15 of my assemblages to create an experience for participants as well as handing out info, answering questions, giving suggestions on how they could do something similar in their own churches. Here's what I've sent in as my blip about what the workshop would be:

The basic premise of this workshop is simply to pray and to call people to prayer through reflections of sight, sound & action using creative collections of mixed media. It will allow the participants, as well as the creators, to experience God's presence & speak to God about our own needs and the needs of the world.

Participants will experience an example of prayer stations using art, as well as ideas to start one in your own Church using the gifts and talents of your youth and/or adults in sharing their creative expressions & reflections of God and the world we live in.

This is a really wonderful conference, and I look forward to attending some workshops while I am there too. So if anyone is in that area and wants to check it out here is more info from the people in charge of organizing it...

This two day conference offers a wide range of workshops (from presenters from the Diocese of Chicago and from other dioceses of Province V) dealing with ways to assist people in their own formation and is for any and all adults who are interested in, charged with responsibility for, or even just happy-to-be-with-other-folks whose passion is Christian Formation.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

+ learn some new as well as tried-and-true processes for pepping up adults.
+ receive helpful hints and creative strategies for facilitating youth in their encounters with Christ and the Church.
+ be given practical and fanciful ways to continue to nurture our children.
+ view demonstrations of a variety of curricula.

A brochure with registration information is at the website. Please make copies and distribute to others in your congregation and encourage them to join us for this opportunity to experience, discover, recharge and share with each other. Stay tuned for a full listing and details of workshops (to be sent to registrants and also available online at www.episcopalchicago.org soon).