Artwork by Jimmy Orr and Spoken word Track by Jimmy Orr and Chloe Rose.

Jimmy provided a number of art works and tracks for this project giving @thisbrokenpastor the freedom to choose how they could fit. @thisbrokenpastor has chosen to put these two pieces, The Master’s Workshop (Kintsugi) and Peace together. The Master’s Workshop (Kintsugi) shows the world not being broken but rather the world being pieced back together, celebrating the scars and cracks, as is the custom with kintsugi¹. Peace then poses the questions, “How will it look when the world is at peace? When conflict, wars, and violence cease.”

@thisbrokenpastor is moved by the idea when answering the question, “how will it look?”, the answer might be a world that carries the scars, that perhaps they won’t be hidden and lost forever, but as the fractured pieces are brought together they would become a crowding jewel. Do let us know what you think.

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✏️ Jimmy is a Worship Leader, Poet, Husband, Singer/Songwriter, Speaker, Son, Retreat Leader, Brother, Artist, and Dad… though not necessarily in that order! He has a passion for creatively expressing faith and the full range of human emotion in a real and worshipful way. You can find him on his website, Instagram and bandcamp.

✏️ Chloe is a Wife and Mama to her little family and has a big heart for coming alongside others to encourage, build up and see people reach their full potential. She has a musical background both in the community and education sector and loves collaborating on creative projects, pushing boundaries and thinking ‘outside the box’; bringing fresh ideas to the table and seeing ideas come to fruition. You can find her on her Instagram and Bandcamp.

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📧 If you’re interested in sharing a little hope between 5th March and 17th April 2025, get in touch (abrokenpastor@gmail.com) with your contribution. It can be an article, blog post, artwork, poem, song, photo… there are no rules others than it be your original work and offers a little bit of hope.

1. Kintsugi (金継ぎ), meaning joining with gold, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks and breaks with urushi lacquer dusted or mised with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Therefore, not trying to hide the cracks rather celebrating the journey and history of the piece of pottery and remembering all it has been through. ↩︎