Creating Sacred Space
Recently I had the chance to sit in on a breakout session with Lilly Lewin at the Shift conference. Lewin co-authored a book with Dan Kimball called Creating Sacred Space A Hands-On Guide to Creating Multisensory Worship Experiences for Youth Ministry. Lewin shared with us one of the problems we face in today’s societies especially amoung teeanagers is the difficulty to be still and quiet before God. We preach about this all the time, however we rarely give students an opportunity to actually do this. Lewin suggested creating opportunities maybe quarterly where you would setup prayer stations in your youth center. These “prayer stations” are described more in detail in her book with pictures and instructions, however the overall premise is to connect with God through multiple senses. One example is a prayer station where you would read about the cup in the bible and then proceed to actually washing a cup both the inside and outside with soap and water. Another station you might eat some goldfish or swedish fish and read about the feeding of the five thousand. Lewin also suggested displaying art or even student art from photography to video to paintings.
This does get pretty complicated the larget the audience, however after experiencing the prayer stations myself I was really intrigued on what an impact something like this could really have when used on an occasional basis.
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