More Lent

*Prayer as Community – how do we live out our faith? You can view a clip about a new monastic community here at Prayer as Community link . It could lead into a discussion about how we experience and offer prayer in our daily life. An interesting quote from one of the members of the monastic community is “Our neighbours just call us 'The Christians' because we're the only ones they've ever known," says Markus Laegel. "It's scary because the way we live will define Jesus to them."


Lent can be a time to explore our beliefs. What do we believe about Jesus? How would people in our community understand Jesus by the way we live and worship? How do we live out of our beliefs?

~Check out this video posted at Guerilla Worship Flash Mob at Shopping Mall link. Compare and contrast it to the monastic community video as a way of living out beliefs.

~A Jamaican proverb says “Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer”. What do your youth think about that? What other ways to pray besides spoken can they think of? Here’s a site that has all kinds of creative contemplative prayer ideas Creative Prayer links *please keep in mind that this article comes from a site that does not necessarily reflect the theology of the United Church of Canada. You may have to adapt other articles as needed should you choose to use them.


* Just for You ~ 40 images:40 videos:40x40 words:40 days- follow the reflections of Ben Edson here.  Keep clicking on the link at the top right to scroll through the 40 days of Lent.

or Christine Lawrie counts down using 40 words to begin with.  You can access her link here.

Lent

*Holy Week is re-invisioned at Easter photos article  (don't be put off by the title.   "Shooting Jesus" refers to photography).  Consider inviting your youth to consider how they would portray the events of Holy Week either in photos or “theatrical tableaus”. How might you share this in your congregation’s Lenten/Easter worship?

* Just for You ~ Beach Tweets – different words/phrases selected to be written into the sand each day and washed away with the tide. You can access them here and also follow on twitter.