Tree of light Project – Slough Town Centre Churches to get involved

At a meeting last night I learnt so much about trees. In just fifteen minutes I was amazed at how a group of people looking at a few postcards came up with such wonderful and creative images of the human interaction and ultimately our dependency on trees. One such image was the idea of trees watching us through history being there through time observing our relationships and interactions with one another.  With God in the midst of all that sustains and norishes we need strong roots that will enable us to grow and develop in all sorts of ways, to do this we must plant our roots deeply in the teaching of his word. This morning I read Psalm 126 a favourite of mine. A song of restoration when Israel returned from Babylonian exile, they hardly dared to believe it.  The joy for those who returned felt like a dream.  As I reflected on last night’s event to recruit volunteers to be part of the tree of light project  and as we celebrate ‘one year to go’ to London 2012, I wonder whether we will look back and see the opportunity of the Games  as a dream that we dare not believe that God could set before us.

The tree of light is one of four cultural Olympiad events across the UK.  It’s a large scale community event to take place in four locations Oxford, Henley, Reading and Windsor. It will be a visually stunning performance featuring music choreography and cutting edge digital arts in spectacular surrounding.  The project aims to encourage the excitement of the 2012 Games and will be shared by many thousands of people at community level.  The Slough town centre churches applied to take part and have been selected alongside other community groups to take part.  Christians will be encouraged through working with songwriters to use our Christian faith and bible knowledge to develop their own creative response and performance to one of the Tree of Light themes.

Anne Brown a member of the local Baptist church has the experience of managing a project of this scale is heading up the initiative. She says ” This came at the right time for me as this was just the sort of thing I wanted to get involved with, I felt very excited and enthusiastic about the project.  She goes on to say that “all that is needed is enthusiasm and a commitment to see the project through from beginning to end. Representing Christian values and beliefs and a passion to take part in arts activities and a large scale performance”

This is an amazing opportunity for Christians to be part of an amazing project and there is many more. In our Christian journey all that is needed is enthusiasm, commitment and a passion to be part of the God’s plan and purpose for his people. To hold firm to the teachings of the Gospel and represent Christian values and beliefs and see the journey through from beginning to the end.

When we look back on the London 2012 Games in years to come let’s not think of it as a dream but that we did everything we could to make it a reality that God could put such an opportunity before us to reach out to our communities and change lives for ever. 

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