World Canvas Project: A fourth canvas begins at Bethlehem Lutheran

Monday, October 24, 2011

A fourth canvas begins at Bethlehem Lutheran

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, USA.The World Canvas Project was part of the Sunday morning gathering of 5th and 6th graders at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. They needed little encouragement as they each took time to create a prayer painting. Over 70 children and adults helped to complete the original canvas and began a new one. The World Canvas that started at Bethlehem Lutheran is intended to travel to Belfast in 2012 and Palestine in 2013.

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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.