We were starting to prepare for Christmas at Christ the Cornerstone, CMK, and everyone generally agreed that our crib set is just too small. Christmas Eve sees almost 1000 people visit the church and the tallest figure is under 30cm. I offered to make a textile prototype at about 70cms tall. In place, even this was too small - we need something REALLY BIG! but...given the issues of travellers, refugees (Jesus was a refugee) and the multi-cultural nature of our congregation, I offered to make a family which could move round the church during the four weeks of Advent and people could just respond...words, music, cuddles, whatever, noting things in the family's journal.
Here are the members of the family.
The experiment was fantastic: People wrote them letters, took them home for meals, wrote prayers to focus on the plight of refugees and how we could help and took them to heart. The family will be at our exhibition in Worthing and I'm looking forward to see how visitors there will respond.
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