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Upcoming Events

Creative Meetup

Come gather with other Bridgetown creatives to hang out and network. We will provide light refreshments, good tunes, and space to meet with fellow artists, entrepreneurs, and creatives in our community.

Date: Mon, March 17
Time: 6 PM - 8 PM
Location: Bridgetown Church (2120 NE Tillamook St, Portland, OR)

Writing Workshop

An interactive writing workshop by Dr. Jesse Peterson, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at George Fox University, hosted by the creative team. He will primarily focus on prose writing and essay writing. Participants are welcome to come with simple topics or previous writings to brainstorm and develop further.

Date: Sat, March 1
Time: 10 AM - 12 PM
Location: Bridgetown Church (2120 NE Tillamook St, Portland, OR)

Calls for Artists

Check back later for opportunities to contribute creatively to what we are doing around Bridgetown!

Spirit-led, prophetic imagination

Recommended
Resources

Recommended
Reading

Culture Care
Makoto Fujimura

With All Its Teeth
Joshua S. Porter

Art and Faith
Makoto Fujimura

The Return of the Prodigal Son
Henri Nouwen

Rembrandt is in the Wind
Russ Ramsey

Garden City
John Mark Comer

Recommended
Listening

Garden City Teaching Series
Bridgetown Church

From the first page of the Bible and onward, human beings were made to rule over the earth, to gather up the raw materials of the planet, and carve out a world. Out of this inherent design, we search for our calling in life and find meaning in the normal, ordinary stuff of life like going to work, writing emails, cleaning the house, raising kids, and doing homework.

During this series, we will take a look at Genesis and the story of a man, a woman, and a garden as we ask the ancient question, “What does it mean to be human?” Listen to the Garden City teaching series as we discover God’s design for work, rest, and being human.

Visio Divina | Holy Seeing

A guide for communing with God
in an art gallery

  1. Pick out a work of art to sit with.

  2. What first catches your eye upon looking at the image? Let you mind rest on that portion of the image and try not to let your gaze move.

  3. Zoom back out to take in the entire image. Is there anything that changes about the way that you see the entire image after focusing on the smaller portion? Is there anything that changes about the way you see the smaller piece in light of the whole?

Consider the following questions:

  1. Does this piece stir any emotions in you?
    Name them.

  2. Are there any invitations that you sense as you dwell with this piece?

  3. What does this image demand of you? What does it call your attention to? Are there any ways you feel invited into prayer after sitting with this piece?

Prayer

After reflecting on how this image might be inviting you into prayer with God, spend some time talking to him.

Prayer

Feel free to repeat this process with as many images as you like, bringing God into the process of taking in art.