The following is a collection of comments on the 2008 Worship Convention from some of the individuals who were riding on the maroon bus from Quebec City.

• As an Anglican, I am grateful for the ways in which our full-communion relationship inspires, challenges, and moves me.
• Great place to have a conference!
• Karen Ward is open yet introverted, quiet yet validating, a teacher but mostly an encourager. Bless her!
• I have learned to clothe the gospel in many colors, many styles and shapes, and most of all, to set the gospel free. Thank you, Order and Chaos team! - Randall
• There were several profound moments for me. Two in particular stand out: Karen Ward’s assertion that, whatever the idiom, ministry needs to be “whole-hearted” and authentic, and Gordon Lathrop’s assertion that “Christ is the sacrament.” I think I feel that everything else can build on that! - Karen J.
• A comment was made during Karen’s first plenary session in the Q&A section: “We have to consider, what is worship?” Without a good biblical understanding of what God desires in our worship, is it possible our litugy becomes too focused on “our” performance of it? - Jay D.
• It is helpful to have gained a much more useful understanding of the “postmodern” definition and the connection with the emerging church.
• Useful to experience the contrast in styles of the two main presenters and yet the strength of their similar bases of faith.
• Poignant and pertinent fresh images and metaphors of the elements of worship.
• I appreciated the two speakers. Quite different but their material and delivery complement on another. Good ideas to take home.

The National Worship Conference has given me a foundation that I believe will help unify the sometimes differing opinions of people on our worship committee, and indeed in the congregation, but that will also allow the flexibility that allows us to reach out to other people. We are on a journey in the Liturgical Movement which places us today in a time of contextulization. We have some general principles for liturgical revision: Liturgy needs to be transcultural, contextual, cross-cultural, and counter-cultural. And we have an expanded but clear definition of LIturgy: A public work, voluntarily undertaken by the ekklesia, for the common good of all the cosmos. All that and more in a wonderful setting. I am already looking forward to Vancouver in 2010 (in the summer).

- posted by Lindsay Hognestad, Trinity Lutheran, Regina