RAWWG News and Events, Past, Present and Future

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RAWWG Members 2011
 Works with a community that is passionate about worship, space, context and making links with the wider community. Collaboration, creativity and willingness to risk are all part of the mix in this small start-up congregation.
 



Brigid Coult Director of Music, St. Mary's Kerrisdale
"I am excited about this opportunity to broaden our boundaries and to help explore ways in which we can hear and give voice to the song of God in our world."
 

The Reverend Dr. Richard Leggett
Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. Faith's Anglican Church"
I celebrate an Anglican tradition that does not enslave me to a particular period in time, whether past or present, and, more importantly, calls me out of my consumer-minded concern about 'me' and 'my needs' into a corporate vision of what God is up to in the stuff of life."
 

The Reverend Lynne McNaughton
Priest-in-Charge
 at St. Clement, Lynn Valley and St. Clare-in-the-Cove Deep Cove
"My passion for creative, life-giving worship has been part of my love for the church since being allowed to plan worship as a teen-ager, when the youth group I was part of subjected the congregation to Jeremiah was a bullfrog ! I look forward to the work of RAWWG and working to create worship that tells the truth about our lives."
 

Michael Murray
Organist and Director of Music, St. Philip, Dunbar
Michael Murray is Director of Music and Organist at St. Philip's Anglican Church where he has been since the Summer of 2001. He is the Pipe Organ instructor at the UBC School of Music and founder of musica intima vocal ensemble.
 
 
(Brent Bonderud photo)








Tricia Coldren
Pastoral Liturgist, St Mark, Kitsilano
Tricia leads congregational singing, directs the choir and helps to shape the liturgical life of the congregation so they can all participate in making liturgy together. A firm believer in the potency of small congregations, Tricia loves the opportunity that liturgy provides to root worship in both living tradition and local, present communities for the common good.
 

The Reverend Elizabeth Mathers
Deacon, St. Clement, Lynn Valley                   
"I'm a cradle Anglican - some of my earliest memories are of liturgy; liturgy has shaped my life. Liturgy is our response to the good news of what God has done for us in Jesus – a response empowered by the Spirit. Through words, through music, through action, through silence, worship draws us into transformative encounter with God, renews us, and sends us out into the world in service."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Reverend David Taylor
Associate Priest, St. Mary's Kerrisdale
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What's in a Name?












Why call this group RAWWG – Renewing Anglican Worship Working Group?

The group called together in March 2009 was initially called the Bishop’s Liturgical Commission.
This group requested that it be re-named as Renewing Anglican Worship Working Group: RAWWG.

· This name reflects the diocesan strategic priority, Renewing Anglican Worship.

· The words Working Group suggest that renewing Anglican worship is a work-in-progress, open to testing and trial rather than a finished, perfected work of art.

· The words Working Group emphasize the active and collaborative role this group wishes to maintain in helping congregations and regions achieve the strategic goal.

Interesting Stuff!

John Wesley’s Rules for Singing (1761)
1.Sing all. See that you join with the congregation as frequently as you can. Let
not a slight degree of weakness or weariness hinder you. If it is a cross to you,
take it up and you will find a blessing.
 
2. Sing lustily, and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half
dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of
your voice now, nor more ashamed of it being heard, then when you sing the
songs of Satan.
 
3. Sing modestly. Do not bawl, as to be heard above, or distinct from, the rest of
the congregation, that you may not destroy the harmony; but strive to unite your
voices together, so as to make one clear melodious sound.
 
4. Sing in time. Whatever time is sung, be sure to keep with it. Do not run before,
not stay behind it; but attend closely to the leading voices, and move therewith
as exactly as you can. And take care you sing not too slow. This drawling way
naturally steals on all who are lazy; and it is high time to drive it out from among
us, and sing all our tunes just as quick as we did at first.
 
5. Above all, sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at
pleasing Him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this,
attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried
away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be
such as the Lord will approve of here, and reward when he cometh in the clouds
of heaven.