We believe that part of being made in God’s image is sharing in His creativity. We try to encourage our church community to use their gifts and have found that creativity is expressed in many ways.
For example our church grounds are constantly developing through the green fingers of our gardening group. We also try to encourage participation in the administration, discipleship and communal worship; especially through teaching and music.
Our prayer space features paintings from a local artist and another member of our community has featured in the press with her incredible recycling art and the communitea craft group. Look around our building for some of the innovative craft on display.
Nativity
In the last few years we have produced some form of dramatic retelling of the birth of Jesus.
In 2020 we presented ‘Follow the Star’ an interactive walk around the North Inch park featuring links to original videos telling the story of Christmas.
In 2017 we produced a street play (A Muirton Nativity) which told the story while moving throughout our parish. With the help of Creative Communities funding we were able to hire professional actors to work with a local director.
Christmas 2018, 2019 and 2021 saw a production of ‘The Nativity Experience’ which was again professionally written and directed but this time the church congregation provided the actors and live animals took part (thanks to Ayleswood Rarebreeds)! The Nativity events have been great fun and well received by the church and wider community.
Here are some images of these events.
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