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About the Parish |
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Weaving Faith into Life
Schedules and Bulletin
1405 S. Washington St.
Serving Central Michigan University since 1959
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The origin of our stained glass windows is buried in endless conversations about how we hoped our church would look following its renovation in April of 1998. We had very plain, translucent windows with the occasional small colored square. We knew the historic importance of art in handing on the faith. We began to hope that our windows could tell the story of how our work is helping to bring our world to the future God wants for it. Then the idea clicked: the university is organized roughly according to professions - science, art, humanities, health care and so on. Perhaps we could create windows which caught the meaning of the professions which were taught at CMU, in which our permanent parishioners were already working, professions which our students hoped to enter. But who could design such windows? We were extremely lucky to find Mark Bleshenski, a remarkably talented glass artist from Bay City, Michigan. And as the idea perked in our parish, small groups came forward to donate the seed money for each window. It took us just over a year to complete the project. Each window is faceted glass in epoxy, 6'8"x32". Sixteen in all. Each is framed in a short passage from Scripture. Together they have already had a remarkable impact on the parish. Students and adults, families and kids stand before them and muse. We couldn't ask for more.
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