Stage Makeup

So every thursday we meet up at Edinbrook Church and play with different kinds of art. A few weeks ago we brought in a bunch of makeup and face paint and gave everyone a "theme" and a partner and sent them off to create that theme on their partner using the makeup. It was so fun, just playing with it all, seeing what works, what doesnt...and just seeing them transform into these other characters. And while all this was going on we walked around with a camera...capturing these beautiful artists at work...:) They created everything from fantasy to high fashion to dark to using colors or blacks and whites. totally open to their interpretation, and they did a beautiful job.

So that is what the pictures of people in face paint are from.

We are planning to do it again soon, do some demonstrations and teach how to create the effects they want for the stage or for pictures. You never know when you might need it...:) Sarah and I just thank God so much for the time we get to have with this group every thursday. Its so fun and we just love the opportunity to teach and encourage and play and learn from the team too...it is so amazing how God knew that we would love this. That He knew that we would all come together and just be willing to learn and work with each other to see what He can do through us. and so amazing that this...being creative, playing, and trying new things - that this is glorifying God. That this is what He is calling us to...so crazy how well He knows our hearts. He knows exactly what will make us feel the joy He wants for us and He organizes it so that if we are following His path - we get to feel it. we get to get to know God in the way that we understand, the way that impacts us deeply...and for this team...its with art. Being equipped for whatever is to come...whether with makeup or drama or writing or drawing or whatever...

this team was started with the intention of ministry...and while we have done it...so much more is coming. outside the church building...God has so much planned and its just so exciting. following God's plan, taking the risks...SO worth it. He knows...we just have to remember to trust that He knows us better than we know us...and His plan is perfect...:)

Friendship...

So about a year ago God called Sarah and I to put together a group of people who love art and love God.  We had NO idea what to expect or who would come or what we would do...seeing as neither sarah or i have ever been in charge of something like this, never written anything or had the desire to write anything...it was purely a God thing.  a very very cool God thing.

And after a year - we have seen God do amazing things...AMAZING things.  and He has brought together an amazing group of kids...who are incredibly gifted.  It has been so beautiful and such a blessing for us to see how God has gifted them and how He can reveal things about ourselves we never knew.  And He has opened so many doors and opportunities for the team and for members of the team.  In doing dramas and writing dramas and poetry and choreographing dances and shows and it is just so much fun.

Truth is my heart belongs to this team...God has just transformed my passions and dreams into His and it is so exciting to see and to imagine what is coming.

so if you want to follow this - it is going to be open to the team.  a place where the team can post what they are going through and what God is doing...get a glimpse of the creativity that God has gifted them with...and its only been a year - this is just the beginning...