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Worship at Greenbelt 2008: Rising Sun

Ambient Wonder

Ambient Wonder are seeking to surprise one another with the creativity of God. They try to find a meeting place between meditative traditions,...

Andrew Walker

Andrew Walker is an Anglican priest and director of the London Centre for Spirituality. He is a Psychosynthesis counsellor and supervisor and...

Ara

'Ara' means 'altar' or 'sanctuary' and is a monthly club-like event that takes place in a 17th century church close to the centre of Manchester....

Beyond

Beyond is an arts and spirituality group based in Brighton & Hove which aims to provoke people into thinking about christian spirituality using...

Bishop of Swindon Rt Revd Lee Rayfield

Lee Rayfield is the Bishop of Swindon. Before ordination he was an immunologist involved in research and teaching in a London Medical and Dental...

Blesséd

Exploring the missional possibilities of the sacramental life, Blesséd characterises itself as outrageously Incarnational, rabidly Anglocatholic...

Church of England Liturgical Commission

The Liturgical Commission is is resposible for the development of the Church of England's liturgy. Over thelast five years, through its Transforming...

Church on the Corner

Church on the Corner is a new Anglican church in Islington. It is a fresh expression of church, a young community that provides a spiritual...

Contemplative Fire

Contemplative Fire: creating a community of Christ at the Edge. Their worship Gatherings integrate sign, symbol and spaciousness, drawing on...

Diane Craven

Diane Craven is currently Youth and Children’s Work Adviser in the Diocese of Southwark and is working towards a PhD. She is passionate about...

Divine Space

Divine Space started as a meditative, low-tech alternative worship event in Bedford and has now become a regular feature of the Contemplative...

DivineSpace

Divine Space is the name of the alternative worship service set up by Paul Cudby while serving as a curate in Bedford. Bedford have continued...

Dream

Dream is a network of groups based in the Merseyside area and Bolton. Our focus is on building community that values openness, honesty and freedom...

Embody

Bruce Stanley ran away from the circus to become a happiness coach and run Embody.co.uk, the umbrella for creative project development focused...

Feig

Feig is a church community based in the city of Gloucester and one of the congregations of the CathedralWe create space to listen to God, one...

Foundation

Foundation is an emerging church/fresh expression based in Bristol, a Christian community seeking to live out its faith in a healthy relationship...

Franciscans

Anglican Franciscan sisters and brothers of the Community and Society of St Francis live in community in Britain and around the world, and are...

Fuse Factory

Fuse Factory, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is an audio-visual band delivering a symphony in 3 dimensions. Multi-layered saturated video images,...

GothGB

In recent years Christian Goths have embraced Greenbelt. Fr. Alex Gowing-Cumber brought the cyber-feminist Eucharist in 2000 and since 2003...

Gothspell

From the naughty North to the sexy South, you can't escape from Goths – they've even been seen advertising a popular fizzy drink on TV recently!...

Grace

Grace is a Christian community/network that has been creating participative and interactive worship from our base in Ealing, West London since...

Graceland

Our group started in Cardiff in 1996 as a d.i.y homegroup. d.i.y. because, as individuals, we felt we were being gently 'nudged' aside as the...

Happygoff

Happygoff are a group of Christian Goths who have networked with one another across the country. In London they run 'Spiritual Space' in Soho,...

Hold This Space

Hold this Space is an alternative worship project based in Melbourne, Australia, exploring how they can offer moments of grace among those who...

hOME

Tess Ward was the co-celebrant of the Greenbelt Eurcharist 2005. She is the author of The Celtic Wheel of the Year O-books 2007, a prayer book...

Ikon

(allegedly) banned from GB last year, belfast based collective Ikon make an (un)welcome return with a gentle mix of reckless creativity, heart-warming...

John Birch

Jon Birch is a multimedia artist and music producer. For the last 10 years he has been producing resources for the emerging church through...

John Went

In his own words: I'm an Essex man! Born in Brightlingsea and educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School then read Classics and Theology...

Journey

Journey is a group of spiritual explorers in the Christian Tradition who meet in Birmingham. "We describe ourselves as: go to liberal and keep...

L'Arche

Founded by Jean Vanier, L'Arche is movement, where people with and without learning disabilities, share life in Communities belonging to an...

L8r – Godly Play

L8r is a small community, part of Holy Trinity Church in Northwood, NW London. We meet weekly and are committed to an incarnational approach...

Love & Joy Gospel Choir

First came the Beatles, then Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Echo and the Bunnymen, the La's and now the Love & Joy Gospel Choir....

Mass@Barnabas

Mass@Barnabas is a group of fun loving, soap-dodging (only at Greenbelt) teenagers and their long suffering vicar. They like to raise awareness,...

Matt Redman

"When we face up to the glory of God, we find ourselves facedown in worship." Leading a generation of Christians in reverence and humility...

mayBe

MayBe is a group of people in and around Oxford working at being a community following in the way of Jesus, seeking to help create a better...

Molten Meditation

Molten Meditation - Music and Scripture for Full Immersion. Born out of a desire to spend quality time with God in an immersive and music based...

Moot

Moot is an emerging and new monastic community in the City of London that seeks to make connections and find inspirations in the meeting of...

nChant

nChant have been singing together since 2002 growing from a youth group at St Andrews church in Bedford, and now also involving singers...

op/en

An integral part of life at Christ Church Gipsy Hill, an Anglican parish in South London, op/en is playful, creative, multisensory and subversively...

OuterSpace

A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) Christians at Greenbelt, committed to the church, and to affirming LGBT identity. OuterSpace...

Pall Singh

Sanctuary is a faith and grace community gathering for British Asians and others to explore Christ; a safe place where people can experience...

Park, Sheffield

Officially nameless, Park, Sheffiled are a Christian community living in Park, Sheffield. We have been meeting together for just over a year,...

Proost

Pull up your sofas for Proost artists Dubb and Tyte, Harronell and Padraig Twomey offering up mellow songs, spoken word, beatbox, and hymns...

Psalm Drummers

Over the past 10 years, Psalm Drummers has developed in to an international movement which sees drummers gathering together to worship God....

Quakers

Cheltenham Quaker Meeting is part of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain. Quakers believe that there is something of God in every person;...

Rt Revd Pat Harris

In his won words: I worked as a mission partner of the South American Mission Society in Northern Argentina for 17 years – initially among...

Safe Space

Safespace are a new-monastic/missional community from Telford Shropshire. A small community with a passion for mission and a big vision: for...

Sanctuary (Bath)

Sanctuary are a group of Christians seeking to build community through sharing our faith journeys. We meet regularly to explore worship, for...

Sanctuary 242

Sanctuary242 is an intentional Christian community and ‘Fresh Expression’ based in and around St Albans, Hertfordshire, South East England....

Sanctum

Sanctum (re:connect) is an event which is run by a group made up of people from  various churches in the Horsham area.  For the last 7 years...

Sanctus1

Sanctus 1 is a community of people who gather together to discover more about Christ, culture and community in Manchester City Centre. Sanctus...

Sanctus2nds

Sanctus2nds is a sanctuary for creativity, reflection and socialising. At our monthly services held at Sacred Trinity Church, Salford, Sanctus2nds...

Ship of Fools

Simon Jenkins is the editor of the online magazine and community Ship of Fools, of which one newspaper said, “Be warned, should you visit, you...

Simon Parke

Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England for twenty years before opting for fresh adventures.He worked in a supermarket for three years,...

Soul Space

Soul Space is a monthly alternative service led by Dave Tomlinson and members of St Lukes, Holloway in North London. ...

St Christopher's Church, Springfield, Birmingham

St Christopher's, Springfield is an Anglican parish in inner city Birmingham with a Muslim majority community. The church runs a project providing...

St Gregory of Nyssa

St Gregory's involves the whole community in making the liturgy together, reclaiming the vitality of early Christianity and creating new forms....

St Gregory's Music Group with CAFOD

St Gregory's Music Group has existed for over 25 years, and now comprises of some 40 people, some young and some not so young, and many in between! In...

Suwarta Sangat

Suwarta Sangat, meaning 'good news fellowship” in Gujarati, is a multi-cultural group of Jesus Devotees (Isu Bhaktas) meeting in the Gujarati...

Taizé

The brothers of Taizé, an ecumenical community in France, yearly invite young people to join them for a week or two, to live in simplicity,...

The Deaf Community at Greenbelt

Turn your voice off and worship with your eyes and hands - worship sessions in British Sign Language, voiced over in English, open to everyone. Every...

The Garden

The Garden thinks of itself as an experimental project; an emerging community based in Brighton, Sussex, living obscurely on the fringe of religious...

The New Place

The New Place is a Methodist-owned and run community centre in the inner-city of Bristol, concerned with a holistic approach to being community. They...

The Orthodox Parish of St John of Kronstadt Bath

The Orthodox Parish of St. John of Kronstadt was founded in Bath in 1980. We are a community of about 50 – 70 people of all ages and a number...

The Reign

Formed in 2002, Hull worship band theREIGN have developed a strong ministry, particularly amongst young people, with their blend of original...

Transcendence

In October 2007 Visions and York Minster began to work on an Ancient-Future version of the communion service; mixing ancient melodies from professional...

Trent

Trent offer up original worship songs with a noisy, electric edge. The boys put it like this: 'When we play together and lead worship we pray...

Veronica Zundel

Veronica is the author of Crying for the Light - Bible readings and reflections for living with depression. She is also founder/host of the...

Visions

Regular contributors to Greenbelt, Visions are back with more of their multi-sensory worship. Their current focus is on integrating young children...

Wild Goose Resource Group

Wild Goose Resource Group, Holy City and Worship Works Longterm Greenbelters, we’re a mixed team of old and new faces each year. Wild Goose...

YoYo

York Schools and Youth Trust (YoYo) is a youth and schools work charity working to present the good news about Jesus in a way that is interesting...