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For a class project I helped to create a place that the community of Delaware as well as the Terra Nova Community could interact with God through prayer and art. We called it the 40 Hour Journey through Art and Prayer. Starting on the Thursday before the Delaware County Arts Festival we set up a storefront that included an anteroom and an inner room that led people to engage God. For the anteroom, we created a space that anyone could come in from the street and engage their spiritual journey through the art on the walls created by artists within our church community. In the inner room we created a comfortable space the brought our community members into a place that they could engage God for an hour without any distractions.

The response to the event was amazing, both from our own congregation as well as from the community at large. In our own community people were dealing with struggles when they entered the room and truly felt that they met God in their experience within the room. Many came out wanting to take on another hour (but all spots were filled), or wanting to have the room on another week. In the area that anyone could walk many were hesitant to fully engage the spiritual journey, however, they were impressed by the fact a church was willing and able to create such a space. The Delaware Gazette did a little article on the space to make sure that the community realizes what was going on in the little store front.