APTUS is a brand new annual Anglican performing arts camp, dreamt up by national Anglican youth facilitator Lorna Gray and put together by a nationwide creative team. It’s an opportunity for young artists to meet experts and develop skills with Jesus woven into the centre of it all.
The very first camp was held at Woodend Camp in Christchurch earlier this month. Young people from the Christchurch and Wellington dioceses came along – as well as a few of us from the Nelson Diocese!
“So moving to see what creative gifted people can do to connect us with God's love and hope,” Lorna Gray said afterwards.
I asked Ahlia Eden-Calcott, who travelled from Greymouth to attend, to share her reflections on the camp.
Ahlia: I was inspired to go to APTUS this year because I want to pursue a career in the arts and I wanted to learn how to keep God at the centre of that. I was struggling with feeling a creative career wasn’t worthy of God.
Ahlia: I found being in a space of creativity that was also a space of God and worship really helped me feel that God could be found in spaces like that.
Ahlia: Seeing the adults there who follow God with creative careers inspired me, seeing how my passion in the arts could one day inspire other people.
Ahlia: It was amazing. To be in a space of creativity that I love with all the prayer and worship was very special. It was a very welcoming community.
Ahlia: Just to really have fun and praise God with my art.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in for the future, keep an eye out for advertising for next year’s camp on the Anglican Youth website. You can also contact me at renata@nelsonanglican.nz for more information.
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APTUS is a brand new annual Anglican performing arts camp, dreamt up by national Anglican youth facilitator Lorna Gray and put together by a nationwide creative team. It’s an opportunity for young artists to meet experts and develop skills with Jesus woven into the centre of it all.
The very first camp was held at Woodend Camp in Christchurch earlier this month. Young people from the Christchurch and Wellington dioceses came along – as well as a few of us from the Nelson Diocese!
“So moving to see what creative gifted people can do to connect us with God's love and hope,” Lorna Gray said afterwards.
I asked Ahlia Eden-Calcott, who travelled from Greymouth to attend, to share her reflections on the camp.
Ahlia: I was inspired to go to APTUS this year because I want to pursue a career in the arts and I wanted to learn how to keep God at the centre of that. I was struggling with feeling a creative career wasn’t worthy of God.
Ahlia: I found being in a space of creativity that was also a space of God and worship really helped me feel that God could be found in spaces like that.
Ahlia: Seeing the adults there who follow God with creative careers inspired me, seeing how my passion in the arts could one day inspire other people.
Ahlia: It was amazing. To be in a space of creativity that I love with all the prayer and worship was very special. It was a very welcoming community.
Ahlia: Just to really have fun and praise God with my art.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in for the future, keep an eye out for advertising for next year’s camp on the Anglican Youth website. You can also contact me at renata@nelsonanglican.nz for more information.
Check out other articles in the
series below.
More articles in the
series are to come.
