We love what we do
Creative Beings
We believe that creativity builds meaningful connections between people.
We fill our church’s plate-glass windows with rotating art installations, reflecting the seasons and prayers of our faith community.
We invite you to explore this page to learn more about our windows.
We are creative beings, made in the image of God, our Creator. Together, we can create a more vibrant, connected, and hopeful world, beginning right here in Norfolk.
“Live creatively, Friends! Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.” Galatians 6 (The Message)
Our Latest Creative Projects
New Window Display: Wind. Breath. Spirit.
Wind. Breath. Spirit. There is a side to God that is wild and unpredictable, a side to God that is always beyond the predictable routines and rules we call religion. Every year at Pentecost, we remind ourselves that God is a creative Creator. God’s goal is not to keep...
Easter Weekend Brings Launch of Newest Window Installation Entitled “Alleluia”
Easter means resurrection. How can we even begin to picture resurrection? We have ideas; we can feel the promise in it. God’s plans for us are always bigger than we can imagine, but they’re hard to foresee. Resurrection is new creation, a redemption and healing of the...
New Window Display Entitled “Confess” Prompts Us to Reframe Lent
Contrary to popular opinion, Lent is not about giving things up or feeling badly about ourselves. It’s a chance to be honest. To be genuine. To be real. To pay attention to how we’re spending our lives. Where do we invest our heart and our time? Lent always begins...
Good Shepherd in Norfolk Astonishes for Epiphany With New Window Display
Christmas is over. The day is gone. We’ve opened up the packages. Cleared away the dirty dishes and the wrapping. We’re back at work, back to the old routines. But then, just as we put away Christmas, the church calendar calls for a celebration called Epiphany-- the...
Joy (Christmas)
That first Christmas almost went unnoticed. A few stargazing nomads and some scruffy shepherds happened to look up at the night sky; they saw signs that something remarkable was happening. But most folks were distracted and busy with their daily lives, their families,...
Anticipation
ANTICIPATION is the theme word for Good Shepherd’s newest window installation. We’re all in the frenzied season of “getting ready for Christmas.” We can feel the time pressure, the need to check things off our to-do lists. We’re fighting the stress of...