Go Worship! Go Out! Go Wonder!
A resource to equip churches to connect to God through nature.
Elisabeth Sweeney Smith writes in the foreward:
As someone who lives in a place called Chapel-en-le-Frith (old English for a chapel in the woods), it is my pleasure to write a foreword for this outdoor worship resource.
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I therefore invite you and your church fellowship, through the pages of this booklet, to take time out to contemplate God’s creation in whatever outdoor space is accessible to you; be it in a garden, a window box, the local church-yard, a forest or coastal path or around a boating-lake in the local park or if you have the energy for it a hike in the mountains. Wherever you can connect directly with nature, and without any expectations, I invite you to simply be present in creation in an attitude of worship and see what happens.
- Session 1 – God’s creation - “Let there be light”
- Session 2 – God’s creativity, mighty power and gift to our care
- Session 3 – Lament over damage to creation
- Session 4 – Jesus’s baptism
- Session 5 – Jesus calms a storm
- Session 6 – Jesus’s teaching and a miracle of healing
- Session 7 – Jesus’s crucifixion
- Session 8 – Jesus’s resurrection
- Session 9 – Restoration and healing
- Session 10 - Trees
Please share this resource with your church fellowship.
Physical copies can be ordered from the Office in Nottingham.
