Agents of Future
Jalopy-gospellers, Agents of Future (arts/music collective from Portland, Oregon), are interested in collaborating with you. If you have never been given a voice, grab their megaphone! If you have been overlooked, write a song with them!
Tim Hughes
Injecting a fresh longing and lyrically authenticity into worship songs, Tim Hughes is one of the UK and Ireland’s favourite worship songwriters.
Ikon
Inhabiting a space on the outer edges of religious life, ikon is a Belfast-based collective who describe themselves as iconic, apocalyptic, heretical, emerging and failing.
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, daily lives, and the spirituality in our culture as they explore Christian faith.
Wild Goose and Worship Works
We've been coming to Greenbelt for ages - forming a new group to work with each time. This year we have one Greenbelt virgin with us and a returner who's ventured back after many years! Wild Goose (aka John L. Bell and Graham Maule) are well known for their worship resources and songs.
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 world now through prayer and action.
Visions
Visions have been doing creative (and mostly multimedia) worship services since 1991, blending the old and the new, the creative and the technological together.
Feig
We are a rag-tag group of fellow travellers, trying to work out what it means to be following Jesus Christ in 2008 in Gloucester. God has called us together to look out for and love each other. We’re learning all the time and enjoying the journey.
Taize
The Taize community does not organise a movement around itself. Instead, after a stay at Taize, people are invited to set out on a 'pilgrimage of trust' wherever they live, encouraged by an experience of prayer and with greater awareness of their bonds with many others who are involved in a similar search.
OuterSpace
OuterSpace is a group of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) Christians, and their family and friends, at the annual Greenbelt Festival. It is committed to the Church and to helping everyone find their way in the Church, no matter what their background.
Spontaneous
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
In unknown places and at surprising times worship will be happening around the Festival village.
Spontaneous
In unknown places and at surprising times worship will be happening around the festival village. A variety of groups have been asked to lead a simple act of worship in some unusual locations.
Long Worship
Monday
As part of Keep Monday Special, New Forms will play host to an exciting worship experiment.
Catholic Mass
Saturday, Sunday
We are the Roman Catholic Church at Greenbelt, gathering together to provide a new and authentic experience of Roman Catholicism at Greenbelt
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 formal.
Sanctum
A group - made up of people from various churches in the Horsham area - who for the last 5 years have been having fun providing spaces that help people communicate in creative ways with God.
House For All Sinners and Saints
"O Sinner Where Art Thou?" Join Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber and House For All Sinners and Saints, an emerging liturgical community from Denver, Colorado, for a Southern Gospel/Americana Bluegrass Eucharist service.
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 home within the vibrant and yet transitory world of central London.
Blessed
Blesséd, based on the South Coast of England, has been exploring the missional possibilities of the sacramental life since 2002.
Franciscans
Friars, sisters and friends, we're a community on the camping field. The Brothers and Sisters (you can tell us by our brown habits) come together from the houses where we live, pray, work and eat with other members of our communities.
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 going left..."
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 in the exploration and pursuit of a spirituality centred on Jesus.
Andy Flannagan
Andy Flannagan is a singer-songwriter and also the Director of the Christian Socialist Movement - expect songs with a heart for global justice, reflected in earthy lyrical content.
Transcendance
In October 2007 Visions and York Minster began to work on an Ancient-Future version of the communion service; mixing ancient melodies from professional choristers with future ambience and combining Anglican liturgy with creative prayer journeys through an ancient building.
Ethos
Ethos is a group of people based in Portsmouth who spontaneously came together with a desire to enlarge the vision and grow beyond our boundaries in worship and understanding of Christ's message.
Foundation
Foundation is an emerging church/fresh expression based in Bristol, a Christian community seeking to live out its faith in a healthy relationship with contemporary culture.
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.
EarthAbbey
EarthAbbey is an emerging Christian community whose members commit themselves to journey towards a life more in tune with the earth.
Proost
Pull up your sofas for Proost artists Dubb and Tyte, Harronell and Padraig Twomey offering up mellow songs, spoken word, beatbox, and hymns to swear by, topped and tailed with Proost animations.
Molten Meditation
Molten Meditation was formed out of a desire to experience God through scripture, music and meditation within our own cultural context. Originally a move away from the noisier and more frenetic elements of charismatic worship, this year they're trying to find a path between the two.
Accord
Beautiful music, creatively arranged and spiritually focussed, Accord specialises in exploring the gap between contemporary and traditional Christian music.
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; that God will speak to us if we wait in stillness; that experience of the divine is not dependent on external rituals or symbols; and that spirituality is about the whole of life. From these basic beliefs flow our testimonies (ways of living) such as peace and simplicity.
Safe Space
Safespace – Telford are a small community with a passion for mission and a big vision: for being peace-bringers for people, community, culture and creation.
Sanctus1
Sanctus 1 is a community of people who gather together to discover more about Christ, culture and community in Manchester City Centre. Sanctus 1 seeks to push at the boundaries; exploring God and spirituality within the city, in contemporary film and art, and within each other.
Dreamers of the Day
Dreamers of the Day is a nascent network seeking to develop their gifts in creative collaborations which make a redemptive mark in society.
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.
Beyond
Beyond is a new initiative based in Brighton & Hove which aims to explore Christian spirituality through creativity.
Ian Adams
Ian Adams is a writer, mentor and teacher in the areas of spirituality, prayer and community. He was co-founder of the mayBe community in Oxford and is an Anglican Priest.
Messy Space
Like a huge version of your living room over the summer holidays, the Messy Space is the place for the whole family to hang out and do stuff.
Contemplative Fire
Contemplative Fire: creating a community of Christ at the Edge. Their worship Gatherings integrate sign, symbol and spaciousness, drawing on Biblical texts, the Christian contemplative tradition, contemporary Christian art that are woven together with music and chant sourced from early medieval, Russian Orthodox and Afro-celtic, often led by Philip Roderick of Sheer Sound.
My mother had a brother
A reflective time to celebrate the hidden lives of LGBT people in our families, our churches and our society, and to commit ourselves again to the kingdom values of justice, tolerance and welcome.
