Ken’s lesson this week is about keeping peace in the middle of the storms.


Sandy Freeman and one of her carvings.
C.cada is the artist’s ministry of Cornerstone Church our goal is to help people discover, develop and deploy their God given gifts for the church and for the community.
One Saturday a month our artists take over the church for a day. In the afternoon we host a class to help people discover their latent talents. This month I taught a class on the Shadorma form of poetry. We had four artists in attendance. Here are their works built from two prompts:
Buzz word prompt:Holy/Fire/Cry/Witness/Shine
Photo Prompt:

Lost
by Deb Maciorowski
Silently
Crying. Holy God
Witness to
My spirit,
Fierce fire to cry out loud,
For my lost loved ones.

Deb Maciorowski preaching the Word of God.
Open
by Lisa Johnson
Seek healing.
Cry out to the Lord.
Breathe air in.
Prayer cries out,
With brothers and sisters who
Cry out with me here.
Fire
by Lisa Johnson
Consume me
Father with your love.
I cry out.
Fill me Lord
With your holy fire to shine,
To be a witness.

Lisa Johnson beside one of her works at the pediatric playroom Heywood Hospital.
Cleansing
by Charlotte Dorais
Cry loud and
Strong washing free the
Stains. Witness
To the heart
Freedom. Holy
Fire shine forth beauty
From ashes inside.
Sound Forth
by Charlotte Dorais
Here I am.
Have you seen me?Lost
Now found. Force
The sound to
Ring far and wide over dark
Wasteland. Cry out loud.

Charlotte Dorais by one of her works at the pediatric playroom at Heywood Hospital.
Righteous Rage
by Brenda J. Lillie
I cry out.
Loudly I roar on.
My face red.
My eyes closed.
Righteous rage falls on me.
We need you Lord, now.
The Lord’s Witness
by Brenda J. Lillie
Show! Shine! Share!
Holy Lord be here.
Fall like Fire!
Hear my cry.
Let me be Your witness.
Shine through me today.

Brenda’s postcard from a few months ago. She needs 740$ in monthlky commitments now. That works out to 15 more partners at 50$ a month.
Here is a Shadorma Brenda wrote just for me after I finished off the Valentines cake.
No Cake for You!
by Brenda J. Lillie
I had none!
My cake they ate it!
Left none for
Me ’tis true!
My cake they ate it all up.
I shall have no more!
😦
Here is a taste of February’s artist gathering at Ccada.

The Haas girls working on their newest drawings.

The morning ended with a housewarming for one of our long-time artists. This table was built by our reclamation artist, Sandy Freeman.
It’s 5 A.M. here. Pastor Wrinkles is just blinking his weary eyes open, but the Son is beckoning “Hurry! Get your coffee and come and praise me!”
It is time to dress in the garments of praise and face this day folks. Join me in worshiping the Savior of the World one more time!
Grace might not always give us what we want but it always provides what we need.
Share your song of grace in the comments section below.
Now if you liked this song Matthew West is in concert throughout the winter. Here are his dates and locations
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/11/16 | Augusta, GA | James Brown Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/12/16 | Greenville, SC | Bon Secours Wellness Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/13/16 | Knoxville, TN | Thompson-Boling Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/14/16 | Fairfax, VA | EagleBank Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/18/16 | Ft. Wayne, IN | Allen County War Memorial Coliseum |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/19/16 | Cincinnati, OH | U.S. Bank Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/20/16 | Lexington, KY | Rupp Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/21/16 | Cleveland, OH | Wolstein Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/26/16 | Columbia, SC | Colonial Life Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/27/16 | Greensboro, NC | Greensboro Coliseum |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 2/28/16 | Norfolk, VA | Scope Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/4/16 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/5/16 | Memphis, TN | FedExForum |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/6/16 | Bossier City, LA | CenturyLink Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/10/16 | Springfield, MO | JQH Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/11/16 | Wichita, KS | INTRUST Bank Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/12/16 | Oklahoma City, OK | Chesapeake Energy Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/13/16 | Tulsa, OK | BOK Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/18/16 | Indianapolis, IN | Bankers Life Fieldhouse |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/19/16 | Birmingham, AL | Legacy Arena at the BJCC |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/20/16 | Peoria, IL | Peoria Civic Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/24/16 | Roanoke, VA | Berglund Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/25/16 | Raleigh, NC | PNC Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/26/16 | Charlotte, NC | Time Warner Cable Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 3/31/16 | Tupelo, MS | BancorpSouth Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 4/1/16 | New Orleans, LA | Smoothie King Center |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 4/2/16 | Little Rock, AR | Verizon Arena |
| $10 AT THE DOOR | 4/3/16 | Louisville, KY | Freedom Hall |
Here is Ken’s offering for the week on deciding to be mature.

To all the artists reading this blog. If you are in the Winchendon area and would like to join us for our next artist’s day apart, it is February 20th from 8 until 3. Cntact me here at the blog or at Cornerstone Church Winchendon for more info
Pastor JE Lillie
This came from Ken one of our artist managers at C.cada
Hello everyone,
Check out the website to see when our future meetings will be and what special projects are planned. With the January meeting cancelled, a quarter of a year has already passed since our last art show. With the busyness of the holidays, many of us have spent little to no time on new art projects. Let me encourage each of you to plan to finish at least one project per quarter until the next art show. This would give each of us at least 3 pieces to display. That’s 90 days for each project, including 3 CCADA workshops for each month. God gave us abilities in various degrees. I’m thinking He wants each of us to utilize those talents to the best of our individual abilities. Ask Him to show you how to make time to discover, develop, and deploythose talents. When you bless Him with your best, He blesses your best and makes it better. To help keep us on track, we have scheduled a “show and tell” for our meetings in April and July—where we will share whatever work we have done up until that point with the other members of CCADA. Remember that this could include any artwork, photography, writing, or music. Let’s encourage each other by creating and sharing our ideas and efforts.

This week Ken has written about Neotony. Read on here for this powerful blog about keeping our creativity alive and why Jesus wants that…
Today Jennifer has asked us to bring out the CANARY . You can see a post full of canary photos by clicking the underlined link.
Here is the shade Jen’s contributor’s have been asked to match and my attempts at it are below that.


Wendy is one of C.cada’s mural painters. I am thinking the highlights in the window are canary.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
To those of you in the path of this winter storm…Be warm and safe.
Are you uncertain of the future? Maybe that is just where you need to be. Read on…