Every summer for six years New Life has had a special worship service - Blessing and Being Blessed by the Land. In 2012, we were experimenting with different times and ways to worship out on the beautiful 12 acres of Hill Country land with which we had been entrusted. We thought a blessing would be a good place to start. Also, as we began to really imagine outdoor worship, we thought of other ways and models for worshiping outside, in nature. One important way of thinking, an