CRAIG MITCHELL
Welcome to my blog and portfolio. I’m an educator, facilitator, author, multimedia maker, event curator, church worker, musician, researcher and culinary explorer.
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See the Light
See The Light An Invocation and a.Blessing inspired by Matthew 5:13-20. Did you see the light? Were you rubbing sleepy eyes when yellow beams pierced the gap in the bedroom curtains? Were you already holding breath in awe as the sun spilled its bright dawn rays across...
RedBubble Store
This week I've started updating my REDBUBBLE Shop with some additional products based on some of my photography. The big thing is a range of jigsaw puzzles based on landscapes, birds and fauna, and farm images from Australia and New Zealand. I started the shop about a...
Gathering on Christmas Eve
Twilight comes, and the rush of traffic and unfinished business is replaced by the babble of evening news, with its unending litany of shock and sorrow. With weary bodies and troubled souls, we gather here to welcome the night - to seek respite from the world's woes,...
New Sheet Music
I've added a couple of newer songs for sale as sheet music for the Advent/Christmas season. Make a New Way is based on the cry of John the Baptist but set in Australia. Written with David MacGregor. Blessed Night, Blessed Light which explores God being present in...
Missional Church Leadership – Weeks 9 and 10
Leadership and Change Week 10 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology continued the theme of Leadership and Change. We revisited Luke 10: 1-20 and spent time talking about Lectio Divina as a four part process. We then looked at the Five Marks of...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 8
Week 8 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was the first of two sessions on Leadership and Change. Of course there is a plethora of material on both, and people can do whole units on each of these topics through the College and University...
Featured Resources
VIDEO & DISCUSSION SERIES
Video Series
Our Faith: Christian Beliefs in the Uniting Church
Six short videos produced as a national learning resource for the Uniting Church in Australia. A range of church leaders – local, state and national – open up Christian beliefs about God, the Bible, the Church and God’s Mission. Discussion guide and activity resources for groups here.
“Here is a book of invitations to deeper water – to open a strange story and live in its pages, to learn to sing a new song in a different land, to be seared by a burning bush, to board a weathered boat and push out into the depths.”
Deeper Water: Resources for Immersive Worship