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This October, on each Saturday morning of the month, a small group of us met together to explore our creativity and self expression through mark making and painting. The four workshops were held in The Ark, a small personal studio space in Berkhamsted.
Picasso was believed to have said, ‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up’! So with Charlotte Wright as guide, the Companions, and one participant who wanted to walk alongside CF friends, set out together to explore the process and challenges of making and creating.
“One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.” John O’Donohue
Carrie Williams leads her first CF event.
A report from CF North’s meeting “The Banquet of our Whole Selves”, a reflective prayer exercise which Jacky Stride brought from the Whirlow Spiritual Growth and Transformation Course.
Notes from the Trustees’ and Hub meetings.
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Abbot Erik wanted to address the reasons behind a Christian community. The community we form in the church – ecclesia – “coming together”- is a redemptive process and experience.
The Community Fellowship Weekend
Including Notes from Abbot Erik’s Talk on Community
Abbot Erik wanted to address the reasons behind a Christian community. We were in mid-Lent, bringing thoughts of the Exodus narrative and the forming of the people. The individuals who came out of Egypt – the 12 tribes and others, a bit of a rabble! – turned into a nation of people through the experience of the time in the wilderness. He spoke of the redemptive dimension, how something was healed. The community we form in the church – ecclesia – “coming together”- is a redemptive process and experience. Atomised, individualised people were “redeemed” in a social group held together by God’s forgiveness, mercy, promise, covenant.