Celebrating God's Creation

During the month of July, our church has one worship service on Sunday mornings instead of the normal two. Instead of using the same services, we call it Surprise July and do different things. People seem to enjoy this time every year. Today's theme was Celebrating God's Creation. We held the service down in Brin's Garden which is our outdoor worship space. It is a nicely shaded area where people bring their own lawn chairs to sit in during worship. We also have some garden type benches down there for people who forget their chairs. Singing is usually either acapella or guitar led. I always enjoy this worship setting. It was the perfect setting today for this themed worship service. It is a carved spot in the middle of the city. 

This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time during worship. Celebrating God's Creation with looking at our impact we have made on His creation. I think it is important to look at our call as being the steward's of God's creation once in a while in a worship time. It was neat listening to the sounds of nature around us in contrast to the urban car traffic that is prominent also in this setting.