Hope Chapel would
like to extend an invitation to a special evening with
David
Taylor
We will be celebrating the work he has
completed on his collaborative book:
For the Beauty of the
Church
The evening will include:
Visual art that was
featured in the book
Musical performance by Ellen Johnson
An Interview with David Taylor
Book signing opportunity with David
And of course a reception will follow (what is a Hope
Chapel event without food?)
Hope Chapel
June 12th, 2010
7:00pm
Please invite your art-loving friends!!
Pentecost
God often speaks in a still small quiet voice
But sometimes he speaks with fire and wind!
Jesus breathed on his beloveds
And said
Receive embers of the Holy Spirit
Wait 50 days and I will burst you into flame
My words are Father words
Spirit and life
And O
What a firestorm the Father has coming
Why did you come out into the wilderness to see a reed
shaken by wind?
Church
You/We are Father’s fire garden
Father
Plant in us your fireseed
That we might become your firefruit
Church
Receive the Father’s fireseed
Nourish in Fatherfire
Flourish as firebush
Til we become Fatherfruit
Church
See what a great fire is kindled by a spark
Speak the Father’s words to each other
Pour them back and forth
Pentecost is the Lord’s passion!
The Holy Spirit’s fiery dance!
Come, O Wind
And blow through our garden!
© Rick
Van Dyke
For the
Easter exhibit
we took the Lent panels (see below) outside on Palm Sunday
and invited everyone to cover them with paint. We used palm
branches and our hands to cover the darkness of Lent.
The
Lent exhibit
consisted of blank canvases hung around the sanctuary with
charcoal pencils next to them. People wrote and drew on
them according to the following:
All who depend on the law to make
things right are under a curse. Galatians
3
The
canvases represent our bodies, our lives.
The
charcoal pencils represent this world of sin and death.
You
are invited to record those things that are not good and
right and true.
We
invite you to engrave your losses, your hurts, sorrows,
indignations,
unfulfilled dreams, hopes deferred,
all that cries death and despair.
We invite you to scrawl out all those things hanging over
your head,
the relentless requirements of a guilty conscience
- failures, offenses, omissions, regrets -
your mountain of debt,
however you conceive it to be.
We invite you to declare on this space all that is owed to
you
– confession, apology, acknowledgement, explanation,
retribution, restitution –
all that justice demands and longs for.
Write it
once. Write it again. Write it over other words.
There are only 2 rules.
Be
sensitive to the public nature of this display.
No explicit drawings. No naming names. Use code words or
personal symbols to depict that too great for the young or
innocent. God knows whom or what you mean.
Keep it
personal.
This is a place for your sins and the sins committed
against you personally. While we know that the sins of this
nation are great – acts of war and arbitrary killing, greed
and licentiousness – this is a time for removing the log
out of our own eyes.
If we claim we have not sinned
we make him out to be a liar...1 John
HopeArts is the art ministry of
Hope Chapel in Austin, Texas. The fine arts ministry
hangs 4-5 exhibits per year; the biennial HopeArts
Festival showcases musical, theatrical and literary
performances; other creative arts ministry includes
community events, special interest small groups, and
classes on Christianity and the arts.