Lego Jesus

This week I am in Sweden, with a bunch of other curates from the Diocese visiting one of our partner Diocese, Vesteras. We visited a church in the area with an ethos I really liked. To begin with they chose to move location to be a church amongst the people, which required a great deal of change and sacrifice. They have also pioneered a number of art projects to engage the surrounding community in a meaningful way.

My favourite was Lego Jesus, pictured here. They didn't just buy in the lego bricks, but asked the local community to donate some of them. One lady brought in 4 white bricks from her husbands old lego collection, he had recently died and it was a way of helping her grieve, but also celebrating his life with the wider community. Lots of children brought in bricks from their own collections.

For them this statue represents the body of Christ, with many parts (some seen, others hidden) making up the whole. Another lovely aspect to this statue is that it is hollow and inside are lots of different individual lego creations by the children (houses and gardens)


It was a beautiful example of creativity and meaningful engagement with a local community. A chance for the church to preach the good news in a visually powerful way. I liked it.

By the way it's not glued together, Jesus' hand fell off a few months ago... all fixed now.

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