vintage vespers | an exploration in what is possible

For those who may not have heard, I am now officially an associate pastor at Vintage Fellowship. Well actually that isn’t my actual title, as we are still working one. ‘spiritual architect’ has been suggested; I like ‘practitioner in residence’ or something like ‘spiritual gardner’ but neither of us are sure about it. Though the whole idea of a title rather creeps me out.

Whatever the title, the idea is that I have come on board to basically develop and jettison the community deeper in their spiritual lives. The idea is that I would be thinking deeply about the practices we do as a community to draw us deeper into worship while also developing relational discipleship within the community as well.

So my first major task I’ve set for myself is starting a Saturday service, focused on developing a contemplative worship experience set to a liturgy with plenty of time to stop and be still before God. It is very hard to have those times within the normal contemporary {Protestant} worship service. Even many liturgical traditions leave little time to simply be still before God.

My hope and my desire through the crafting of this time is to do exactly that. I am starting conservatively with one service a month, though I would love for this to get legs and become a weekly event.

I desire to share all my created resources here, for those who are interested in doing this themselves. For each person I am creating hand crafted booklets including original work by local artist Amber Perrodin. I will include high quality downloads of that plus images of them printed and bound after production.

I am really excited about this event. It is something I have been dreaming about for some time, finally getting actualize it. Below is the trailer I made for our Sunday gathering.