May 2nd Creative Artists Workshop

 On Saturday we hosted an Art Workshop at Bethesda House. It was wonderful. We had 18 students from around Muizenberg who came to learn more about art as a tool to communicate the heart of God . We taught on imagination, imagery in the Bible, communicating with colour, and using art as an evangelism tool. We started off with worship and set our gaze on the ultimate artist, creator of everything, Beauty Himself. 

It was amazing to see the creativity pour out of people as they did artwork with different mediums. There was a heart of worship among everyone as they created. For myself I always knew there had to be more to my artwork than it just being a nice picture. When I joined Bethesda and began learning it was as if I learned a whole vocabulary and heart for what I already believed to be true; God loves people and God loves art and He wants to use it to show people Himself. I am so thankful that art was never meant to be a side project or forgotten gift but a ministry. A way to reveal Beauty. A way to draw people into Beauty Himself and have them see Him for who He truly is. 

Here is a little piece of what I am doing on this coast in South Africa. 

Happy Monday.

Awake Promo Video

This is the promo video made for our ministry's main local outreach. The doors are open every Wednesday evening from 5-9 so if you are around the Muizenberg area it is definitely worth popping in! (Or if you are from anywhere else in the world it is worth the plane flight. Cough cough beautiful friends and family in Canada. Come visit!) I can promise free coffee, awesome people, beautiful music, and the presence and love of God. We love Awake and it is often the highlight of our week! 

We have been working at Awakes since we arrived in South Africa a few months ago but since tomorrow is the first day of Bethesda reopening after the holidays we start as official staff tomorrow. Yay orientation! We are just a little excited about it. We are so fortunate to get to work with such amazing people in such an amazing place with such an amazing God.   

Art Outreach 07/11/2014

Today to end off a busy, full, full, full week the whole LBSC split into multiple teams to do outreach around Cape Town. I loved seeing everyone at dinner afterwards overflowing with testimonies and joy at what God did in the short afternoon.

I went with four other women to Kalk Bay to do live art and paint while someone talked and prayed with the people it drew in. Let me tell you something, people love art! So many came to us with questions about what we were doing and so happy about seeing art being done on the street. Pictures speak in a way words can't so having visual paintings being done of what God was saying about the town and people in it was very encouraging to many. We were able to invite people out to Awake, Bethesda's Wednesday night ministry, and pray for many others. Two people got saved which is incredible! It was lovely!

My painting was the one with the flower wave and I believe God was saying that He wanted to come softly and beautifully to people in that town and wash over them like a strong wave. So many people have heard about God but don't want Him because they have had their sin shoved in their face with judgment and harshness but God's heart is not condemnation towards people. It's love. He loves them! So I painted and prayed and asked God to come and refresh and wash over these people, drawing them into His gentle heart and allowing them to see His beauty leading to salvation.

I don't remember exactly why the other girls painted what they did but I'll add it later if I find out. I don't want to give the wrong description of their pictures.

Happy weekend!