{"id":3215,"date":"2022-03-24T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:27:30","slug":"palmyra-offers-creative-worship-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/03\/24\/palmyra-offers-creative-worship-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra offers creative worship elements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Carol Hoke<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Palmyra (Pa.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> placed twine “lanterns” in the sanctuary windows for an Advent worship series from Marcia McFee’s Worship Design Studio. For Advent, brass or
white metal stars were hung in the lanterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, luggage tags were substituted for a series titled “What’s in Your Suitcase?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, logos of the service ministries of the denomination hung in the lanterns: Brethren Volunteer Service, Children’s Disaster Services, Brethren Disaster Ministries, FaithX (workcamps), the Global Food Initiative, Material Resources, and the Brethren Service Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small group used the lanterns in a spirituality exercise. This is the poem I wrote for that exercise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tangled twine wound in a circle,
crossed and criss-crossed.
The twine is bound to the tools
Giving a lifeline from the top.
Love in action
Flowing through the universe.
Symbols of service, agencies
for doing God\u2019s work in the world
Set against a bed of purple, the
color of royalty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This article came from the April 2022 issue of Messenger. Subscribe to Messenger<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palmyra Church of the Brethren has used twine “lanterns” in the sanctuary windows to reflect a number of themes. Find out how. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[320,323,325,322,321,108,149,324],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-northeast","tag-02-420","tag-art","tag-atlantic-northeast-district","tag-creativity","tag-palmyra","tag-pennsylvania","tag-service","tag-worship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}