We had some banner-age issues when the bottom pole threatened to spear a random and innocent by-walker. Wouldn't have been the greatest start...
The lovely Kate during our Wed paint. Kate, Chonty, Chelsea and me did paintings during the week on the lawns, a painting for each days sub-theme. The overall theme was 'Has God Failed' - pretty provocative as it turned out, people were confused about whether we were for God, or against God, which meant lots of questions, and great ways into convo's...
The first day: Natural disasters
Tuesday: Poverty
Wednesday: Too many faiths
Thurs: Injustice
Friday: Death
They all fit together in the end, and we put a cross over the 'has God failed', as in the cross = the answer to all the questions, to the suffering, pain, death in the world.
The girls... (we discovered we also had posing in common...)
The amazing J-week team!
A few seconds later... it descends into wrestling
Annie and I found another random awkward turtler in Jess! Yeh, you kinda had to be there...
Friday: Death
They all fit together in the end, and we put a cross over the 'has God failed', as in the cross = the answer to all the questions, to the suffering, pain, death in the world.
The girls... (we discovered we also had posing in common...)
The amazing J-week team!
A few seconds later... it descends into wrestlingAnnie and I found another random awkward turtler in Jess! Yeh, you kinda had to be there...
Two things learnt/reinforced: the absolute necessity of prayer.and spurring each other on. I was so much more kicked into action through seeing how passionate other people were about sharing the gospel, and just went for it.
And now time to go do some uni reading, which suffered a little with so much going on last week ... oops!
7 comments:
last photo = absolute gold. The rest are good to, the artwork is fantastic! its been good hearing ur stories about Jesus week, sounds amazing, its the kind of thing you hear about and just want to get involved in. gets you all psyched up about Jesus and just makes u want to spread the good news. silly flinders uni we havent had anything like that. and nice work updating. i was just coming here to tell you to update and youve done it. pictures and all! cya thurs xx
AND there were free pancakes!!
we had some interesting conversations within our group thanks to the red-jumpered people. so that was good. glad it went well.
those paintings are awesome Jess - good work to your painting team. as emma said, sounds like it was an awesome week!
Great post Jess - what a week! What is going to happen to the art works now?
cheers guys :) It was all very much a group effort - the paintings and the talking with people - hearing about other people do it made it seem so much more... doable! Good question about the paintings - I think we were thinking that we'd give the ppl who donated $ at the quiz night first preference if they wanted one (not that you'd really want them hanging in your hall/room!)but apart from that... not sure! Last I heard Reuben was deferring to Chonty about it.
Jesus week was awesome this year- i wish i could get more involved but my uni/work hours are stupid...but the jumper was warm to wear...isn't it funny how peole seem almost to ignre it when we go around talking about how loving God is, but once we start suggesting that he may have 'failed', everyone's ears prick up?
All in all, nice work on the paintings, they look gorgous (in an evil way)
Samara
Haha, just the effect we were going for ;)
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