Sanctuary First

If you don't know about Sanctuary First, please do visit the web site here, or follow the link on my places to visit side bar.

This is a worship space created on the web by my friend Albert and folks from St Andrew's Bo'ness. I've copied what Albert has written about Sanctuary First:

Sanctuary First is written for and by Christians who want to be passionate about daily worship but we know how easy it is to lose heart and fall by the wayside. We at Sanctuary First just want to be honest as we grow in our faith. We don’t want to be ‘over the top Christians’ who fall off the edge, instead we want to recognise that we won’t always get it right but if we journey as a group of companions with Jesus at the centre he will save us from ourselves.

The present format launched in October 2009 has been devised by Sanctus Media, a not for profit company that operates out of St Andrew’s Bo’ness. It has been partially funded by the Church of Scotland’s Emerging Ministries Fund.

The vision we have embarked upon will call for a great deal of hard work and input from a wide variety of people.

We are seeking to collaborate with writers from around the world while maintaining a Scottish identity in our writing and communication.

Our initial aim is to establish a network of worshippers around the world who will be encouraged on a daily basis by the prayers, scripture readings and video podcasts that appear on the site. So we look to you to sign up and join our community. We not only wish to be hi-tech we also want to be hi-touch. Look out for the local monthly worship hubs that we hope to establish. Perhaps one could be planted in your area.

It is our vision that this web site will be a creative tool inspiring collaborative thinking across the world allowing us to engage with the world church in worship helping us to become more passionate about the issues of peace and justice and reconciliation as we seek to live out the teaching and practice of Jesus.

I've been invited to write for the Sanctuary First site in the coming weeks on the theme of struggling with self and with God and would value prayer for this piece of work.