In the beginning I was looking for ideas to record this year in creative ways. This is really the only one I stuck with. After each month of significant ministry in a place I attempted to sum up the experience in a poster style sketch with a bit of writing and a illustration. I made a sketch book and only filled about a fifth of it. Sorry about the quality as its not the best in some of them.
Some are bad, some are good, all are fun!
Mexico – “In Alguilar mexico I looked up and saw a gentle child giving all she had…and saw a house full of bondage be filled with the words of God…and saw a man’s eyes crying out so loud I could not walk away…and saw a pastor smile bigger than he was supposed too. And saw a town that wanted our prayers and has them.”
Guatamala – “In the land of a thousand dreams, I have a thousand memories”
Peru – “Dust is but water away from dirt, and dirt is but a seed away from life.”
Argentina – “Amongst the empty faces, smiles, and smurks, often quick, each step with curiosity. And after the 300 blocks I found little but the urge to walk a little more”
Mozambique “For I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means and I also know how to live in prosperity. I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and need.” Phil. 4:12
Portraits and scenes of the many places we visited in mozy.
Swaziland “Sometimes you have to live a dream to find out if it is really a dream at all”
Thailand – “Where the loss of innocence finds many, God has chosen to return it to a few”
This is a portrait of Eileen from TOLO
Cambodia – “Like a fly upon the wall, or a bird flying oh so tall, I heard my call, and watched them all. Dirt, filth others may have saw, but I found so much beauty in the dull.”
Genesis 3
This is Genesis 3 from a excercise I would do when I would pray over a particular scripture and draw the image that comes to mind. The image in my head consisted plainly of a squirming snake dividing a man and a woman with paradise in the far background as if the snake had pulled them out into this place of division. I added the details as I read, and didn’t want too, but decided to put a apple in it like any classic adam/eve esqu piece should. It is fun to read the scripture and find the little hidden things I placed in the image, well I think it is fun. And yes…she is pregnant.
I lost much of my watercolors sadly while in mozambique, others I believe in Swazi. This one had a more lively and happy “genesis 2” themed counterpart of the same excercise that is now gone. My poor little tin of watercolors has escaped me.
