World Canvas Project: Dancing with God at Saint Andrews Lutheran

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Dancing with God at Saint Andrews Lutheran

MAHTOMEDI, MINNESOTA, USA. Nearly forty youth gathered in the sports center at St. Andrews Lutheran Church to bring their prayers, both image and word, to the World Canvas Project. After a time for reflection the canvas was filled with their art and prayers. We then gatherd around the canvas for a community prayer for all those who had painted on the canvas and those yet to come. Their energy and enthusiasm were expressed with passionate color and form as they shared their faith through the gift of creativity. – Saint Andrews Lutheran Church

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Prayer Canvas

The World Canvas Project began its journey when I was the Artist In Residence at Luther Seminary. The prayers on the World Canvas Project are collectively woven together in color and word. Threads of individual petitions give rise to personal and communal creativity, hope and reconciliation. The finished canvases will either return to Luther Seminary or in the communities where new canvases have begun. Along with many congregations and communities, the World Canvas Project has been part of the East Belfast Mission and the Skainos Project in East Belfast, Northern Ireland; Holden Village, Ghost Ranch, Presbyterian Church of Ireland, The Minnesota Without Poverty, Luther Seminary, Global Missions, United Theological Seminary and the Summer Institute in Spirituality & Art. A second, third and fourth canvas has traveled to Mosul, Iraq; Andhra Pradesh, India; Palestine and Israel; Guatemala.