House for All Sinners and Saints

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    I am the mission developer for House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado. We are an urban liturgical community with a progressive yet deeply rooted theological imagination. Check out our site for more info.

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  • Chris Enstad
    The blog of a dad, husband, Lutheran pastor, emerging, failing, conversing, confessing.
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    Ian is the Anglican Priest at Moot in London.
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    This is a great blog from Down Under which explores Christianity and religious pluralism
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    Ian is the priest of the MayBe community in Oxford...I think he's pretty stinkin' cool.
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  • MayBe
    This is a great emerging church community we spent time with in Oxford. Their website is well worth a look, especially the page "the spirit of MayBe"
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    If I'm the Sarcastic Lutheran, he's certainly the Sarcastic Anglican...
  • Steve Collins
    Steve's an interesting and articulate emerging church brit.
  • The Mercy Seat
    This is a really groovey new church plant in NorthEast Minneapolis, amazing jazz liturgy. Their website is well worth checking out

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Bluegrass at Pentecost

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Pentecost at HFASS included a bluegrass liturgy (see the link for Kent Gustavson on the side bar for more information about the music)

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The Holy Ghost Bluegrass Band (i just named them that...) The Mandolin player is my baby daddy/boyfriend/partner in crime/husband


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We wrote prayer for the church, the world, and all those in need on muslin and hung them for the Spirit to intercede with sighs too deep for words...may these prayers be carried to God.

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Holy Ghost Red velvet cake.  A HFASS Pentecost tradition (because we've done it twice...)

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63 people showed up!


Pente-chaos::Water::Fire::Wind

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Our Pente-chaos service started with a remembrance of baptism in which facts about water (6 of them) and the sections of the Lutheran Remembrance of Baptism liturgy (4 sections) were each written on individual pieces of paper and given to 10 folks when they walked in to worship.   They were asked to read these in a specific order and as they did, to place the pieces of paper into the water of the clear baptismal bowl.   So we began with things like -by the time you are thristy you have 1% of your total body water, because of evaporation and condensation, the water on the Earth now is the same water that has always been here... and then went right into Your spirit moved over the face of the waters bringing forth creation....you saved Noah and his family form the waters of the flood....with water you claim us as your own....

Then we used the baptismal water for aspersion. (showering a bit of it on everyone)

For The Word section of the liturgy we projected a film loop of fire

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Andie sang the descant for Viene Sancte Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit)

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Prayer

3 stations were set up: The Church, The World, and All Those in Need.  At each station were colored markers and strips of fabric on which to write petitions. We then during the Prayers of the People simply read each petition and then pinned them on a line, turned on a fan and watched them blow out into the world.

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Then we all celebrated with our Holy Ghost Red Velvet Cake.