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We have contacts all over the UK and overseas.
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We have support from sympathetic clergy.
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We provide training in several art forms.
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Participants worship, learn and have fun together.
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Membership is free - a voluntary collection is
taken at services
and
fees are reasonable.
Basic
training days can be held at the invitation of any church. Shirley
Collins, Director of Arts Ecclesia, can run several workshops simultaneously
in different rooms. Participants may like to spend a whole day on
one discipline, or Pick and Mix - choosing two subjects. Popular workshops
are banner making, drama, dance, music (instruments and singing) and
writing.
A
theme is chosen and each group works on items which are brought to
a service of celebration and worship at the end of the day. Basic
days are a good way of involving all ages in creative activities which
can also bring healing, as well as a deeper knowledge of self and
our Saviour Jesus Christ, God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
If
there is a church group already proficient in a skill, then an alternative
is to hold an advanced training day on one subject. This allows participants
to gain further knowledge in their giftings.
In
addition we also run weekend courses and occasional summer schools.
And we have a number of resources: instruction
sheets, scripts, books, videos, which people can use in their own
situations.
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