This week we are setting up our All Hallows Eve Labyrinth, to which we invite the community. I've been processing a deer carcass this afternoon so we have some bones for one of our displays. When our members went to the meat processing plant to get the deer bones, one of the workers asked, "What kind of church is this?"
This year our theme is The Final Judgement. All our displays will relate to things Jesus lists in Matthew 24. This is our third year hosting the event. Looks like we may have rain, as we did last year. It didn't seem to affect attendance too much last year so we hoping for another good year.
I wonder what others are doing for All Hallows this year and youth ministry.
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Rev. Edward Engelbrecht
- ALPB Forum Regular
"Pastor Stolzenburg retired from full time service at Emmanuel in 2017. However, he continues to lead congregtional (sic) services when Pastor Ed is out of town, teaches the Bexley Bible Study, and organizes the Emmanuel Travelers small group ministry. Pastor Stolzenburg also preaches weekly at Lutheran Social Services' Kensington Place, Columbus, OH."
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"When I tell people I follow a Minoan spiritual path, one of the first things they ask about is the labyrinth. Often, all they know about the labyrinth is what they've heard from the Theseus-and-the-Minotaur story. The thing is, the Greeks invented Theseus as a culture hero centuries after Minoan civilization had ceased to exist, so the Minoans never even knew about him. In Theseus' tale, the labyrinth is a deadly maze full of confusing twists and turns, impossible to escape with the help of Ariadne's thread. In reality, the labyrinth is very different from that.
If you have a look at the labyrinth design at the top of this post, you'll see that it has a single path that leads unerringly to the center. Sure, there are twists and turns. These are designed to disorient the person walking the labyrinth so they can enter altered states of consciousness and reach their own inner spiritual understanding. But there's only one way in and the same way back out. This is called a unicursal (one-route) maze. And it's not a tricky trap. It's a spiritual tool."
