We've had a fabulous weekend at Greenbelt. It is great to see such a diversity of worship, theology and creative expression.
Our Saturday morning worship session was such fun, with and amazing band, fab visuals and brilliant interaction from the crowd. If you were there and wanted to get some of the resources, or weren't there but are interested, here is the outline:
1) We started with Richard Lyall's 'Unforced Rhythms of Grace' flash animation, available on his blog.
2) The music continued into singing the chorus of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', interspersed with a piece of spoken word piece 'What is your Hallelujah' which we've posted up for you.
3) Sara led us in some liturgy, 'In the beginning'. This flowed into singing 'Immortal Invisible' with drum'n'bass-inspired music (the chords were Bb /// Bb/C /// F/A /// Dm/// x3, Gm /// Am /// Bb/C ///) and using the Jubilate words.
4) That went into 'Jesus Lead us to the Father' (free music and tracks on RESOUNDworship.org), but using AdAM Parkes backing track from this remix.
5) Next we focused on the humanity and divinity of Christ, using a kind trip-hop version of 'Meekness and Majesty' inspired by a Cinematic Orchestra track called 'As The Stars Fall'.
6) 'He's My Saviour' (free on RESOUNDworship.org) proved itself once again as a fantastic way of getting people involved as they shouted out their own ideas for verses.
7) That led into Stuart Townend's 'The Lord's My Shepherd', using a great version he recorded on a CD called Monument to Mercy.
8) From there we turned outward to our broken world, singing 'When our songs' (free on RESOUNDworship.org). A number of people asked
9) We performed a version of Psalm 88 by Sunil Chandy and invited people to write prayers for people or situations they knew of, inspired by the honesty of the Psalm.
10) The session closed on a high, celebrating God's justice and faithfulness with Geraldine Latty's Shout it.
Our afternoon workshop on Interactive/Unfinished Worship followed the same lines as our articles on this site and Worship Leader. We demonstrated the clay modelling and Psalms Praise ideas, and sang He's my Saviour. Richard Lyall demonstrated his use of fractals in worship (see how-to article here) - he promised we'd post the images that were created, so here they are. Thanks to all the people who came along and contributed!
Other stuff - engageworship.org contributor Andy Stinson was involved in a really creative Beat Eucharist, we're looking forward to see what happens with that material. We bought Jonny Baker's new book on Curating Worship which looks great. Lou Rhodes was absolutley the musical highlight. And we, err, drank lots of coffee and hung out with a lot of lovely people!
One of the fractals Rich created in the workshop. Zip of the whole set here.
Sam says something in the seminar.
The clay worship idea. Pics by @SonicSteveUK
