Mae Runions

Banner and Antependium

Whistler Village Church, 2004

In 2004 the Whistler Village Church was meeting in the new centrally located Maurice Young Millenium Place Theatre.

The church previously met in a legendary small A-frame Creekside Chapel at the foot of Whistler mountain; skiers could ski right up to the door and attend a service at the end of a day of skiing.  There was a beautiful stained glass window there, which was saved when this building was taken down.  This window was greatly loved and became a central idea for the fabric work.

The fabric commissions were sponsored by the Pratt-Johnson Foundation.

Left: 

The Journey: Love to Love

The theme is the mountain, not a specific mountain, but the universal mountain of journey.  Among other things it is a symbol of human challenge – of beauty and terror, hope and fear, joy and sorrow, accomplishment and defeat.  But ultimately it is Home. The Cross is present too, an ancient symbol of Christ’s saving presence with humans.

Right: 

Creator Jesus, Embrace Us with Your Love, Goodness and Truth

This design refers to but does not reproduce exactly, the stained glass window of the former mountain chapel;  all the colors of the rainbow were in the glass, embedded in 3 overlapping circles:  I imagine that the symbols suggested are Love, Goodness and Truth, Trinity, Unity and Transformation.