Faith

While the name Faith Booking may bear a similarity to a certain social networking website when said out loud, it is actually a much more personal and artistic practice to do with sharing thoughts and feelings on faith.

A page from a Faith Book.

Developed in Guernsey by Annie Winch Faith Booking grew out of the recent growth of scrapbooking as a hobby.

Scrapbooking is a practice of recording thoughts, feelings and events in an artistic and creative way by creating a book of words and images and Faith Booking is a more focused form of this.

While the Scrapbooking practice often becomes focused on pictures and decoration more than writing, Annie said she wanted Faith Booking to recapture the writing side of the practice, with a specific focus on "telling people the happenings in the writer's life" so they can be passed on.

Another reason for Faith Booking Annie said, was that "sometimes people can't talk about their faith and feelings but if they write it down, they can share it that way" and that it was "very theraputic".

Local Faith Bookers also hold meetings which help develop their books with different themes, an example Annie gave of a theme was fathers where people wrote about their fathers, the "Heavenly Father" or the father of their children, or any other interpretations they could think of.

If you want to get involved with Faith Booking you can contact Annie on 252745 or annie.winch@cwgsy.net