Wild Church Colorado Springs
“Take off your shoes, for the place you are standing is Holy Ground.” Gen 3:5
What is Wild Church?
Wild Church is in essence a community of people who gather outdoors to worship and connect with God through experiences with nature. A new way to redefine church and reconnect with nature by meeting outside, outside of human-made buildings and dogmas and control.
Where like here, under the cathedral of the pine trees and an altar made of nature’s gifts, a place where Mystery is experienced, not explained. An opportunity for us to read the first book of God – nature – as the ancients would tell us.
To break it down a bit, we define “wild” not in the sense of being “out of control,” but refers to the natural, innate way the world was created: not controlled or tamed or domesticated. Reclaiming wild is reclaiming who you are meant to be, who the world is meant to be, which isn’t static. Wild means swirling in dynamic and even loving relationship with because all wild things ae naturally connected.
We define church as a place of intentional connection with the sacred. Wild Church reframes this as a sacred connection that is fully in relationship with, and even initiated by nature. It is a call from Holy Spirit and from Earth to restore a dangerous fissure. Spirituality and nature are not separate as many of us have been taught.
References from the book, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred, Victoria Loorz
Wild Church Colorado Springs will begin on Sunday, May 19 from 4:30-6:00pm at Benet Hill Monastery.
3190 Benet Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80921
Future dates:
Sunday, June 30 at Fox Run (email for directions) @ 4:30pm
No July service
Sunday, August 18 @ 4:30pm Bella Terra Farms, 15920 El Dorado Way
Contact Kim for more information.