Though we are many, we are one body, because we all share in one bread

In June 2017 I was asked to be the "face of the Church of England on Twitter", taking over the “OurCofE” Twitter account for a week. With over 10,000 followers from around the world, the account aimed to give a glimpse of life in different churches across England each week, to show the diversity of the church and God at work in everyday life. It was a wonderful and liberating experience to share and receive so many wonderful tweets from such a variety of people from all around the world. I tweeted over 1200 times, showing life in our parish and sharing stories from some of the many fascinating people in our congregation. You can read all the tweets at these ‘storify’ links:

Monday June 12th to Wednesday June 14th 2017Thursday June 15th to Sunday June 18th 2017


My “Twitter week” included the feast of Corpus Christi. I wanted to make an image to remember the week - something that would link the ‘virtual’ church on Twitter and ‘real life’ church in Southgate. The mosaic uses a close up of our beautiful Salviati reredos in Christ Church Southgate as a background image and is inspired by the phrase “Though we are many, we are one body,because we all share in one bread.”

The mosaic includes pictures of people from Christ Church Southgate as well as people from the church they wish to remember – and the Twitter avatars of all the people who replied to our tweets during the twitter week, which is why it contains both photographs and symbols.

This phrase, from St Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, is important to me and so I decided to use it as the name for this blog.

How I made the mosaic : Many people have asked how I did it. First I thought I would have to print out and assemble all the photos by hand. Thankfully Isobel, our Office Manager at work, pointed me in the direction of some free software that does most of the hard work for you! I used some freeware called Andreas Mosaics, which you can download here. I experimented with different levels of rotation for each image, until I found the effect I liked best. 

The mosaic includes pictures of people from Christ Church Southgate as well as people from the church they wish to remember – and the Twitter avatars of all the people who replied to our tweets during the twitter week, which is why it contains both photographs and symbols.

This phrase, from St Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, is important to me and so I decided to use it as the name for this blog. 

How I made the mosaic : Many people have asked how I did it. First I thought I would have to print out and assemble all the photos by hand. Thankfully Isobel, our Office Manager at work, pointed me in the direction of some free software that does most of the hard work for you! I used some freeware called Andreas Mosaics, which you can download here. I experimented with different levels of rotation for each image, until I found the effect I liked best.