This month's Alternative Worship allowed us to play with some of the Exodus stories. We set up a side room with stations to allow people to engage with the text and then, with their imaginations, to walk the wilderness as well. I played with some ideas and made a mind map - my usual starting point.
I read through the significant parts of Exodus and also started blogging some ideas (some of the posts in this topic are still being re-written, and so aren't posted yet).
The key is to engage the imagination and the senses, particularly with the feeling that somebody would have had if they had been there on the periphery of the original event.
Slavery was "easy" - we could use modelling clay to make bricks. We would mould the clay by hand and then carve into a side something which enslaves us. It was delightful to have that scent of clay on ones fingers again - a real throwback to childhood.
I tried to recreate the burning bush using a plastic tree we have in Church and have used for various things, and then wrapped the lights on an LED string with crepe paper to make little flames.
I kept this afterwards, and we can use this as a visual aid when we come to think more closely about the book in our teaching series starting in a couple of weeks.
The Passover was represented by some (home made!) Lamb Koftas and some rocket leaves.
Likewise, the section dealing with the people complaining had little plastic shot glasses with salt water in them.
We looked at how we need to purify ourselves and not to presume upon being able to walk into the presence of God, using a bowl of water with soap and a towel.
The pdfs of the pages on each station are here Download Exodus stations 29 Apr 18. Feel free to use these yourselves if you want to (but it would be great to know and to see some photos of how you set this up).
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