Our church is beginning 21 days of fasting and prayer for the New Year this Sunday. Here is what Ken Knowlton, one of our artist managers, had to say about resolving things for the New Year.
http://artistdayapart.com/be-it-resolved/
Category Archives: C.cada: Arts and Stuff
C.cada Weekly 12-29-15
It’s the last post of the year for Ken and then we are into 2016. Read on….
http://artistdayapart.com/a-prepositional-truth/#more-3142
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Sometimes It Is Hard To Remember This.
Tinker Tailor…C.cada reblog
Here is the latest devotional from our C.cada website. Check it out
http://artistdayapart.com/tinker-tailor/#comment-903
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Artist’s Soul
Our church administrator, Charlotte Dorais, is retiring at the end of the year. Today we are honoring her at our staff Christmas party. Charlotte has served in just about every ministry I have had oversight of through the years I have known her. Her love for Jesus has called her to take up posts outside her comfort zone many times. I just know that love for her God is going to lead her on to even greater adventures now.
She was one of my adult champions when I led the youth ministry (we called ourselves “the Beyonders”). She has worked as a shut-in visitor for the Compassion Ministry and as an artist manager for C.cada. She has been an untiring intercessor and a woman always willing to lend a hand in practical ministry. She is an incredible artist as well as an able administrator. Above all she is a committed friend.
Thank you Charlotte for your love for God and his church. I have written this two stanza Cinquain in your honor. It is entitled
Artist’s Soul
by JE Lillie
Artist’s
Soul, disciplined
By the brush of prayer.
Colors careful mixed until God
Brings forth
Artist’s
Strength, directed
Unafraid of future
Steps into the blank canvas called
His plan.
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Eye On The Prize
http://artistdayapart.com/eye-on-the-prize/#more-3116
One of our artists from C.cada shares these thoughts in our weekly C.cada website update.
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Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge 11-15-15
This week I take you back to Fruitland’s Museum for another of my other oddball photos
Suit of Armor, Fruitlands Museum
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One Word Photo Challenge: Autumn
Jennifer has challenged us to show our readers autumn with our photos.
You can see lots of fallish photos by clicking the link above.
Here in New England we just passed Columbus Day (which in Massachusets is a statewide day off). It is one of the last days for outdoor activity here in the North East from here on out we are preparing for and expecting winter.
That being said, Amanda (my oldest daughter) , Brenda (my sister) and I took a ride north to do the quintessential Yankee activity on Columbus Day. We went leaf-peeping.
This is the river between Chesterfield and Brattleboro VT.
The Westminster Baptist Church, Westminster MA
We went as far as Bellows Falls Vt. and the world famous Vermont Country Store.
Enjoy the autumn everyone. Snow will be flying soon enough!
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Share Your World 2015 Week 38
It’s that time again folks. Cee has asked her questions and we can but answer. My answers to the questions are below and Cee’s other friends have answered HERE. You have only to click on the underlined word and you will be whisked away to Cee-Land a most beautiful place…really!
Here are my answers:
What do you do to make a living or during the day if you are retired. If you are a student what are you studying?
I am the assistant pastor at Cornerstone Church in Winchendon MA. My portfolio includes worship and the arts as well as Prayer and Compassion ministries. To that end I run C. cada a Christian artist’s collaborative. The goal of C.cada is to help people discover, develop and deploy their God-given gifts in the church and in the community.
I am also a founding member of Special Touch R.E.A.C.H. New England a chapter of Special Touch Ministries based out of Wisconsin. The goal of this ministry is to bring the gospel message to the disabled community.
Basically I spend my days meeting and training teams of people to reach other people with the love of Jesus through prayer, compassion and the arts
Have you ever participated in a distance walking, swimming, running, or biking event? Tell your story.
I have done walk- a- thons to raise money for missions. there is no real story there. I walked and people gave me money to give to missionaries. The end. 🙂
What is usually your first thought when you wake up?
“Good morning Lord. Do I really need to get out of bed? It is really warm in here and really cold out there.”
Complete this sentence: Look out behind you, it’s a …
Falling tree! I really don’t know where that came from. It is just the first thing that crossed my mind. No one I know has ever been squashed by a tree. I don’t think I have ever even seen a tree fall.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful that my editor Tracy sent the prologue of my story back complete with edits to be made. Now to work. I am looking forward to the Toy Town Fall Fest which C.cada, Prayer Shawl Ministry and Special Touch R.E.A.C.H. New England are participating in this weekend! I
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Share Your World 2015 Week 25
Here we are back at Share Your World for another seven-day spin and an answer to five questions. Click the icon above to see what Cee’s many friends have been up to this last week.
Here are the questions and my answers
What did you or did not like about the first apartment you ever rented?
The first apartment my wife and I rented was on the campus of a Bible College. It was so small we could sit on the living room couch and eat off of the dining table. The toilet and the shower were so close together you could wash your feet while sitting on the commode. The heat was not under our control and ran so hot we kept our windows open in the winter. The living room walls were sky blue and the carpet was a dirty orange. We had a two burner stove and no oven in our galley kitchen. We did all of our cooking in a crock pot or in a toaster oven my mother-in-law gave us ( 6 cookies at a time). Our Korean neighbors wonderful people (and I really mean that they were the best) often cooked really aromatically frightening dishes that smell has stayed with me all these years.
Some days I find myself longing to be back in that itty bitty smelly apartment that clashed!
What kind of art is your favorite? Why?
I could get in real trouble with this one. I run an artist’s collaborative and I have met artists who are extremely talented in many genres. I don’t think I have a favorite art form. I have learned to appreciate many. The art forms I excel in are writing, music and photography. I am really bad at painting.
How many siblings do you have? What’s your birth order?
I have one sister and I am the oldest by two years.
Complete this sentence: I’m dreaming of a white …. (and no you can’t use Christmas as your answer)
rhino playing Claire De Lune on the piano in my bedroom. (You did say I was dreaming correct?)
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am very grateful that we successfully completed our summer art show in the park this last weekend. Now my eyes are turned towards finishing my work on my novel this week so I can meet deadline!
Lillie-Put 