As regular readers will know I look after the worship and spirituality programme at Greenbelt. Each year about this time the Church Times makes contact with me to ask me for my five 'top-tips' from the worship programme. Here are the ones that I've chosen this year:
1 - The Rend Collective Experiment: Rend take worship in a new direction, looking and sounding like no worship group you'd usually see in a church! Alongside that they've supported Rob Bell and Shane Claiborne in recent tours introducing thousands to their innovative worship style. (Since when have preachers done tours with support acts?)
2 - Blessed: On Friday night Blessed start the worship programme with a multi-media mass in the Big Top. It promises to be audio-visual, sacramental feast!
3 - The Filid: Occasionally a group comes along who are stretching boundaries and The Filid are one of those groups. A a collective of artists from Canada, they're bringing their fusion of storytelling, installation art, dance, poetry and contemplative silence to the festival.
4 - Abide Campus: Our Eco-spirituality venue 'Abide' this year has expanded into a campus! Late night story-telling and meditations around an open fire and a meditation yurt alongside a diverse programme will make this one of the most innovative areas within the festival village.
5 - Home in a Horse Box: Five worship groups have created a home for you to explore in the horse boxes around messy space! Five worship installations, each based on a different room in a house will enable you to reflect on the home as a place of encounter with God.
The Full worship line up is here!
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