Ever since Creative Worship Tour launched a few years back, I have been part of this amazing community of people who are passionate about creative worship. Eleven months ago, Eric Herron and I transitioned that site to what is now Clayfire Curator. We did so with the intent that it would ultimately be a place of support and community for subscribers to an online worship planning site to help pastors, worship curators, and worship leaders of all kinds to curate worship in and for their communities. Through this blog, the Facebook page, Twitter, and the Art of Curating Worship events, we’ve come to know many of you personally.

That is why it is with great sadness that we announce the closing of Clayfire Curator. December 30 2011 will be the last day that posts will be published to this site. This difficult decision comes after many weeks of discussion and debate; in the end, we concluded that due to low adoption of Clayfire.org, the worship planning site, we could no longer continue to invest in its development nor this blog.

Although the blog will not be updated nor maintained after December 30, the site will remain on the Internet indefinitely. Comments will not be allowed after December 30 to prevent the site from being overrun by spammers. But you will be able to search the site and link to it. Both the @Clayfire Twitter account and the Clayfire Facebook page will be suspended after December 30.

I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for reading, subscribing, commenting, liking, sharing, and tweeting Clayfire Curator over the past 11 months. To all of our guest bloggers, thank you for your inspiring examples. To everyone who contributed by sharing the view from your pew, thank you for letting us peek into your community’s faith life. To Mark Pierson, Jodi-Renee Adams, Mandy Smith, you have my deepest gratitude for the vision of worship that you shared with this community.

Thank you all. See you on the Internet!

~Linda Parriott (twitter.com/lindaparriott) and Eric Herron (twitter.com/ericherron)