The Artistic Retreat is Growing!!!

Last Sunday, the Artistic Retreat taught Children's church! We had 16 kids participate. We made three sets of artist trading cards (ATC) to send to three well deserving people or groups. All the kids made such pretty cards!!! The first set was cards we made to help cheer Austin in Chicago. Next week he goes into a chemo treatment and we wanted to remind him that his healing was already in the bag. We talked about Austin and healing and the fact that our cards just were meant to remind him that he had a harvest coming. The following are pics of the cards made:

Another group of cards we made are being sent to a lady in Australia who is then sending the cards on to an orphanage in Kenya. Here are the pics of those cards:

Finally we made cards for a girl named Cheyenne. She is featured on the "make a child smile" website

http://www.makeachildsmile.org/

We had a lot of fun! Thanks to the Artistic retreat members and the Children's Church volunteers who helped this Sunday. Next Sunday we are going to make paper dolls that will literally travel the world! The first stop on their world tour is Chicago, Illinois (Austin's Place) and then off to Washington DC. Future trips are already being scheduled to Massachusetts, Minnesota, and the state of Washington. Hope they don't get jet lag!