This Sunday! And for the next 10 weeks. Knit for Your Neighbors!
For new and experienced knitters. Learn a new skill or knit with friends. All knitted items will be given as gifts to our neighbors. Class is free and taught by artist Elizabeth Peake.
Supplies included but feel free to bring your own knitting needles and extra yarn.

A creative development day for Christians interested in visual art, music, and creative writing

Saturday November 6, 10am – 3:45pm

at Sojourn’s The 930 – 930 Mary St.

$10 includes lunch

Register below.

“God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…’ God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.’” – from Genesis 1

• What does it mean to be people made in God’s image?

• How can we offer our creative abilities in a way that glorifies God and benefits others?

• What does it look like to create art as Christians in a secular world?
• What does the command, “be fruitful,” mean for artists, musicians and writers?

Harold Best, noted theologian, former professor of music at Wheaton College, and the author of Unceasing Worship, will lead our exploration of Christian creativity along with workshop leaders Jamie Barnes (songwriting), Kristen Miller (creative writing), and Michael Winters (visual art).

SCHEDULE

10:00 – 10:30 Time of worship

10:30 – 12:00 Main Session by Harold Best

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 1:45 Talks by workshop leaders: Michael Winters, Kristen Miller, Jamie Barnes

1:45 – 3:45 Workshop Groups

Michael Winters – visual art

Kristen Miller – creative writing

Jamie Barnes – songwriting

Harold Best – discerning your calling

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The “Be Fruitful” conference is an opportunity to prepare for Sojourn’s next big arts event:

“Open Mic, Open Walls”

December 3^rd

“Open Mic, Open Walls” is an event for writers, musicians and artists of all experience levels to share their creative work in an encouraging environment.

“The photojournalist” by Andreas Feininger

ABOUT THE CLASS
This class will help you make better photographs. Learn how to press the right buttons on your camera, but also learn how to develop your ability to see. Projects will be assigned to further your understanding of the camera as a tool for making memorable pictures. Students are expected to have their own digital camera (preferably a DSLR, but a point-and-shoot is fine too) and a thumb drive or external hard drive to transfer their digital photos to the teacher’s computer. Bring your camera to the first class.

ABOUT THE TEACHER
Michael Winters is the director of Sojourn Visual Arts and the 930 Art Center. He uses digital photography in his personal artwork and occasionally teaches photography classes through Bellarmine University.

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Call for Entries

Deadline to Enter: July 25^th 2010

Designers and Artists are invited to submit a poster design to be used in celebration with Sojourn’s 10^th anniversary.  The design should communicate that Sojourn has been a church for 10 years.  The winning design will be included on the associated Devotional Cover, T-shirts, and Posters and maybe skateboard decks (you never know).

Eligibility

All artists are eligible.  All designs should be original.  All entries should be in a digital, editable file format.

Submissions

Please submit a Full Resolution PDF or JPEG via email to mwinters@sojournchurch.com

Design should fit the dimensions 11×17, yet flexible for multiple formats

Design should not include more than 4 colors

Files must be submitted by Sunday, July 25^th

Awards

10 favorite entries will be chosen for display on sojournvisualarts.com

the corresponding artists will receive a t-shirt showcasing the winning design

1 winning entry will be chosen to represent Sojourn’s Anniversary

the corresponding artist will receive t-shirts for their entire community group

Sojourn Arts Director, Michael Winters, will be selecting the winners

Lately, I’ve been understanding the Sojourn arts ministry as a way in which we can join Christ in making all things new.  As artists, we can take the materials that we find in the world and we reform them, or renew them, into other things that hopefully make the world a more beautiful place.

When God made the world, he didn’t leave too many ‘blank’ places.  Yes, there are deserts and polar ice fields and the state of Kansas, but even those places are not really blank.  They are surprisingly full of life and color and texture.  However when people make things, we often leave blank spots.  The wall behind the stage at the East campus was one such place.

Thanks to Julie Gross and some other Sojourners, that wall, and thus the whole feel of the room, has lost some of its cold blankness.  The stripe pattern is made from sheets of wood veneer which have been dyed and stained the different colors.  The colors tie together the different wood colors from the rest of the room and the layout of the stripes breaks up the monotony of straight lines and right angles while not standing completely apart from the existing room.  While there’s no biblical reference to the shape or content of this wall design, the project is deeply theological and worshipful because it attempts to make things new in light of God’s apparent distaste for blankness.

So, this Sunday the East Campus will be greeted with both a new stage background in time for mothers day and the opportunity for free family photos.

On top of that it’s also Commitment Sunday, where we all financially commit to give to the church over the coming years so that renewal can continue throughout Sojourn and throughout the city.  Our church depends upon the Holy Spirit, grace and prayer, but it also depends on money to keep ministry moving forward.  And of course the truth is that both inside and outside the church, when money is tight, the arts are one of the first things to go.  So, for the sake of the whole church, the city, and for the sake of Sojourn Visual Arts and the 930, please consider how you can financially commit to Sojourn over the coming years.

A picture from last year’s Art in the Park

This Saturday from 12-3 we’re partnering up with SEED to hold a fun family-friendly event in Shelby Park.  We’ll be creating one large panoramic image of Oak St.  on multiple panels.  Each kid will paint one panel and then we’ll screw them all together and let some adults put on the finishing touches.

I hear there’s going to be a cookout too, and some basketball.

Who’s going to join us?

If you want to come and help get the kids painting, let me know – mwinters@sojournchurch.com

To do this, we need a number of photographers.  You’ll be responsible for the shooting and then Michael Winters will be responsible for getting the images edited and to the moms.  It would be good too if you could bring along an assistant to help you keep track of the names and addresses.

Email mwinters@sojournchurch.com if you’d be willing to take one or more of these time slots.

Mothers Day Photography – Sunday, May 9th

Midtown
8:30-9:15 (2) Buck Buchanon with Amy
10:15-11:30 (2) Buck Buchanon with Amy
12:30-1:15 (2) Courtney Crain with Kristin Miller
4:30-5:15 (2)
6:15-7:15 (2)

East
9:15-10:00 Ginny Hobbs, Cody Chaplin
11:15-12:00 Ginny Hobbs, Cody Chaplin

This Sunday we’ll be having a Sojourn Visual Arts Vision Lunch.  You definitely want to come to that, but even if you can’t make that, maybe you can come help us break down the Prayer & Wisdom exhibit.  It’s been nice having it up, but the time has come to say goodbye.  We’ll need to get everything off the walls and off the floor, and there’s A LOT of stuff on the walls and on the floor.

Just show up Sunday around 1:45 if you’re coming just for gallery break down, but if you want to come to the Visual Arts Vision Lunch that starts at 12:45, RSVP by emailing michael@the930.org.

This is sort of like a Vision Catalyst meeting for our specific ministry area.
And this is both for first-timers who want to get involved and those of you who have been a part of Sojourn Visual Arts for a good while.

We’ll discuss where we see Sojourn Visual Arts and the 930 going over the next ten years, or at least the next three years.
What will the 930 be like after Sojourn acquires St. Vincent’s? How will Sojourn Visual Arts capitalize on the recent success of the Prayer & Wisdom exhibit? What exciting projects are happening throughout the rest of this year? We’ll tell you at this get together.

And if you have project ideas or a desire to see Sojourn Visual Arts grow in a certain way, bring your ideas. This will be a great opportunity for dreaming and praying for a wonderful future for Sojourn’s artistic ministries.

Then, stick around if you can to help take down the Prayer & Wisdom exhibit.

So we know how much pizza to order, write michael@the930.org and let us know you’re coming.

Easter is the high point of the Christian calendar. For this special occasion of celebration, Sojourn Visual Arts is going to renew the look of our worship space by changing the paint color behind the stage and creating new window design for behind the stage. It will be similar to last year’s Easter design made entirely of flowers. We’ll also be re-painting the canvasses around the worship space to match the new stage color.
If you can help, please come.