sunken church: October 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Another 24 Hours of Prayer

Last week we hosted our fourth 'prayer room' in Ancona and were really blessed. We started at 18:00 on Satuday and ended at 18:00 on Sunday, just as our weekly Sunday gathering started. A total of 36 people spent an hour in the room, including two children. Heather and Jen decorated it to a 'Mask' theme to encourage our community to spend time talking to the Father about what we've been studying - the TrueFaced concept of trusting God and others with who we really are. Here are some pictures...

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The story goes like this:

There once was a church down by the port in Ancona, Italy. With the passing of time, shaken by earthquakes and beaten by the winds, the foundations of the church crumbled and the church toppled into the sea. A friend of ours shared with us that she remembers, as a little girl, playing along the pier and seeing the remains of the church under the water. She remembers seeing the cross from the top of the church under the surface. She told us that some say that if the wind was strong enough and the waves choppy enough, you could even hear the bells...

The story leads to this question:

If we were to raise her out of the water, if we were to restore her completely to what she was originally intended to be...what would she look like? If we were to remove her from all the traditions that humankind has surrounded her with and drowned her in...who would she be?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Another 24 Hours of Prayer

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