ICON Weekend

This weekend I’m heading to Pitlochry to be a participate in a Church of Scotland initiative that looks to help young adults connect with the Church and most importantly, with God.

This initiative has been on the go for a couple of years now, we had a weekend away in Alnwick in 2007 and various day events since.

It should be a good weekend for those going. We are expecting around 40 people I believe, many of whom I’ve known for a while, some of whom I’ve never met! There are various workshops happening over the weekend as well as time just to hang out with each other or with God. Plenty of time and space to reflect and be refreshed.

I’m quite excited about this weekend for 2 reasons: firstly, Linda will be there. Linda doesn’t always go to these kind of events, so it will be great to have her there and have her meet some of the folks I work with on these things. Secondly, I’m running a workshop/ worship time based around photography. I’ll blog more about that after it’s happened. But, here’s a rough idea of what I’m doing. the idea of the workshop is that its a creative response to God. The workshop will start with me explaining the thinking behind the idea and then giving them some space to refelct, pray, listen for God. I’ll have some Bibles open at the Psalms, this is an activity purely based around worshipping God through capturing images that a) inspire us to Worship b) are of things that inspire us to worship c) are of something that we think God is speaking to us through or about d) perhaps just something that feels right to capture, even if we’re not sure why.

I love that I have the opportunity to lead people in an activity that has blessed me so much over the last few years.

For me, photography is all about connecting. With people, places, events, whatever. I’m still in the infancy of exploring this idea of using photography to worship (something different to using photos in worship I think). If you have any thoughts/ inspirations/ advice please share it!

Peace Out

Chris