Your Glory, by Buhle Khoza, Oasis Christian Academy

Your glory starts someone's story
When their heart is hollow, You will say follow.
They take one step, then two - only to spend time with You
You take them in Your arms and say "Shall we dance?" You dance around the room, knowing You are the only Groom.
When the evening is done and the last song is sung, You whisk them off the floor to chaperone them to the door.
When You are there in complete silence, You look them in the eye and say "Has my glory finished your story?"

Restoration, by Luanna Hutton, Oasis Christian Academy

Broken dreams and broken promises
My heart still bears the pain
My withered eyes and tattered heart still bare the past
I cry not knowing what to do with the pain I once bore.
My mind once echoed lonely through the night.

Whispering thieves with tormenting arrows pierced through my clouded mind
Left alone in my darkest hour, my Saviour came to rest
He bore my pain and cried my tears

My heart restored, my dreams made whole
The heart I gave - the heart He mended
The battle He fought, the victory He gained to restore my broken heart

He made me whole - He made me strong
But now I give Him my scared heart and rest at His feet
For I am His daughter - the precious one He saved.

Wind Through The Trees

This is what the sound of wind through tree looks like. The image was generated using Windows Media Player (a retro version!). I took a screen shot of the visualisation as the video sound clip played. I generated the audio via Audacity. Who would have thought sound looked so good!

Revival of Love Collage

We created this collage at a recent worship training weekend.  The theme was "Revival of Love", and it is composed from various medium - pictures, labels, photographs, downloads.  We worked on the images on Picasa.  Lots of fun!

Art in church.

David Garibaldi: Jesus Painting on Vimeo

An intersting look at a forgotten period of history.

Carolingian Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Poem by Ryan Hogarty

God said love me with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind and with all your strength.


This was his greatest commandment and not a suggestion, something to do and not to shew....


But what did the master mean when he wanted us to love with everything we had, surely we can not stay the same, we had to change!


Well, with Father its always simple... With your mind, the mind of Christ , imagine, dream, and envision with Christ's thought, in the power of the Holy Spirit spend your strength on His mighty works, with the inspiration of the Father in your soul create, sing aloud, compose and dance with daddy, and with everything, with all your heart, and all these days on this earth let not your heart remain silent as you spend your all for your King!!!!


But that was only one half of the equation, an unbalanced part of the Father's determination...
For without the second we would be lead into navel- gazing introspection...


For His love is only complete when we give it away, a windfall gain to be passed by the saint... For his second commandment is to love, your very neighbour as yourself!


For Your gift, your heart, your mind, your love is NOT for your own, its not by chance to you it has been sown...


It's for the lost, the hurt, the broken to release, the whole, the body, in fullness to bring increase....


And so we swallow our pride and to the Father's wing we return to hide, for in Him alone, in His love do we have our strength our joy our victory song...


And so now balanced and even spanned do we walk with our hearts turned heavenwards and our hands and eyes, touching, looking, releasing His love by the power of His dove.


For at the end of day all that remains, is His love not just for us but to give it away!