Here is Ken’s weekly post from the C.cada corner. Our next C.cada meeting is Saturday Jan. 16th. All artists from all genres are welcome.
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C.cada Weekly 12-29-15
It’s the last post of the year for Ken and then we are into 2016. Read on….
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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
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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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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything Painted
It’s Fun Foto time again. This week it is all about things painted. My mind immediately went to C.cada when I saw this challenge and all the painting we do as an artist’s collaborative.
Our mission statement for C.cada is…
C.cada (Cornerstone Christian artist’s day apart) was begun in an effort to give artists from every genre an opportunity to come together to discover, develop, and deploy their talents in ways that will better the church and the community.
To that end writers write, singers sing, musicians play and painters paint.
Wendy Brouillet and her award winning painting of Cornerstone Church.
Ken Knowlton paints a mural at our local hospital
Melanie Painting the End of Time
Jill Poland, Sandy Freeman and Debby Maciorowski splatter painting for Jesus.
To see how others depicted anything painted check out the underlined link at the front of the post!
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Murals
We are in the second week of Cee’s “MANMADE CHALLENGE” and this week she has asked us to show her murals.
C.cada is the artist’s ministry of our church. A few months ago I asked our artists a question, “What is your God project?”
Several of our artists took up the challenge and donated their time and talents to refurbish the playroom in our local pediatrics ward.
Here are the results
Artist Lisa Johnson and her section.
Artist Elijah Haas at his post.
Ken Knowlton and his train.
The bridge that Charlotte Dorais built.
Wendy Brouillet the brick maker.
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Mission Netherlands #missions # missionaries #funding
Hello WordPress followers. My sister Brenda is a missionary to the Netherlands. She is currently home itinerating (raising funds for the mission). She has a little over 3,000.00 in monthly support to raise plus a sizeable cash budget. She needs a financial miracle. She needs to have the funding raised and be back in the Netherlands by November. We are believing with her that God is big enough to get this miracle done.
Here are some ways you can help:
- PRAY SPECIFICALLY THAT GOD WOULD GET BRENDA BACK TO THE NETHERLANDS ON OR BEFORE NOVEMEBER
- SHARE THIS POST WITH YOUR NETWORKS. THE MORE VIEWS THE LARGER THE PROSPECTIVE GIVING BASE
- GIVE. THE VIDEO ABOVE EXPLAINS BRENDA’S MISSION AND HOW TO GIVE TO GET TO HER WEBSITE TO GIVE.
- IF YOU ARE A PASTOR IN: MA,CT, RI, NH, VT, ME, NY NJ OR AL CONSIDER HAVING BRENDA IN. SHE ONLY HAS TWO MORE SUNDAY MORNINGS BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER BUT SHE HAS SUNDAY NIGHTS FREE AND WEDNESDAYS AND IS OPEN TO PARTICIPATING IN MISSION CONVENTIONS. SHE IS ALSO A DRAMA TRAINER AND DOES WORKSHOPS TO HELP LAUNCH DRAMA MINISTRIES OR TRAIN EXISTING ONES
WOULD YOU CONSIDER HELPING?
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C.cadaOur Current Projects
C.cada is an artist’s collaborative based out of Cornerstone Church in Winchendon MA. Our mission is to help people discover, develop and deploy their artistic gifts to build the church and their communities.
Every month we meet together for one whole Saturday to practice our art. The church becomes an art center for a day and we spend it practicing music, learning to paint, crafting, writing and even clowning around (one of our newest artist’s is a Christian clown). We also spend time every month trying out different group art projects to expand our artistic horizons. To see a list of our monthly group projects go to our website
Beyond that C.cada is constantly encouraging each artist to find a God project on which to use their God given abilities. Currently we have:
five artists working on a design they created for our local hospital’s pediatric playroom (pictures above).
The Prayer Shawl Ministry is getting ready to host prayer and distribution booths for their healing shawls at both the Relay For Life and our town’s annual Solstice Festival.
Two of our artist’s are creating monthly newletters the first for distribution in church and the second via mail to supporters of Special Needs programs.
Two of our bloggers have just finished reviews for a new Christian book just hitting the market. You can find those reviews
And finally our choirs, poets and artists are preparing for an outdoor art expo in town to promote God in the arts and for three services to be held at local dayhabs throughout our region.
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What I have found is that there is no shortage of work in the Kingdom of God. If we desire it we can always find something to put our hands and our talents to that will reap an eternal rerward.
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What’s A Maker-Space?
C.cada is the artist’s wing of Cornerstone Church. It is a place people gather to discover their talents, develop their talents and deploy their talents in community. That is a simple definition of a makerspace. C.cada was birthed almost five years ago and since then our artists have met one Saturday a month at our church to practice using their talents in community and to figure out how do we use those talents to enhance our region.
Every month I am amazed at how much work can be accomplished by these dedicated folks in just one day: This month a group of ten artists met via Skype with Kidzark, a drama ministry in the Netherlands. Our team participated in a read through and editing workshop of Kidzark’s newest play (scheduled to go up fall 2015). The prayer shawl ministry met and put the finishing touches on 48 new shawls slated to go out sometime this month to sick and hurting individuals around the world. While that was happening two of us met to edit next month’s newsletter. Our circulation of this letter has recently found an open door in a prison church about 40 minutes East of here and some of their members have begun writing devotional articles for publication. I met and interviewed with another young artist who is looking for ways he can collaborate with us for community monthly even though his work is not transportable and while I was meeting with him one of our members was giving music lessons to a group of elementary students. All the while individual artists were working throughout the building on instruments or easels. Finally in the afternoon twenty of us met for a choir practice in preparation for Holy Week.
This is makerspace, people coming together to be creative in community and to better their community…and the world. We are not a group of geniuses or prodigies. We are just regular people who don’t want to neglect the gifts God has put in us any longer and so we have decided to be intentional and set aside time to use those gifts. We know that most of us will never make a living off of our art. That doesn’t mean our art can’t produce a better life for us or those around us.
If you would like more information about C.cada you can view our website at artistdayapart.com or you can contact me directly at 978-297-3125 xt. 105
Pastor J
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