A Visual Faith Gathering- Resurrection, Cary, NC

A beautiful day for the gathering 

for a Visual Faith event

 at Resurrection Lutheran Church

 in Cary, North Carolina

on Saturday, October, 6, 2018.

Show and Tell and the Stories

 Calligrapher Dara shared 
basic lettering hints and tips

 Educators and friends joined for the day.

Hope Grows Here-
Encouragement for our 
Spiritual Formation Journey. 

RLC member and Visual Faith Coach -
 James Thieme was the organizer for the event.
Great job and thank you!

The Visual Faith Coach Team-
 Left to Right- Connie Denninger, Jamee Thieme, 
Belinda Bost, and Karen Field
Kneeling- Megan Daub
What a blessing to all be together 
for sharing and encouragement.

Visual Faith Practices 

and Faith Milestone Projects

Smash Journals, Mixed Media Projects, 

Bible Journaling 

Visual Prayer Cards

Portals of Prayer Scripture Doodles

The Visual Church Year Project

Lectionary B for 2018

Gratitude-Counting Gifts Journals

 and Prayers by the Month

The Visual Church Year Project 

that serves as- Worship into the Week.

 Done by Visual Faith Coach- Jamee Thieme

Family Faith Statements

Lent and Easter Words

Walking With the Lord Accordion Books

Visual Prayers

One-Page Psalm Summaries

Advent and Lent Calendars

Prayers for My Children

Living Life as Prayer

A Thanksgiving Garland, Church Year Binder 

and Visual Faith Coach Belinda Bost 

demonstrated using Watercolor Pencils.

Time to Pray, Visit, Share, 
Listen and Bless.
What a wonderful gathering-
 in Community. 
  There were many faith backgrounds from 
Virginia to North Carolina 
learning together-that Hope Grows Here.
God is great and faithful.

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Chesapeake District LWML- Convention

The leadership of the LWML 

is always blessed by gifted servant leaders.

 Teresa Tester- Center-

 is the new Chesapeake District LWML President.

Here are the newly elected leaders-
Teresa Tester, President Donna M Thompson, VP Human Care Michelle Baugham, VP Communications Deb Poese, Recording Secretary Yvonne Brown, Financial Secretary Paulette Bland Gaines, Zone Liaison Rev. D Keith Beasley, Junior Pastoral Counselor

 Linda Arnold of the Women's Leadership Institute- 

Concordia University, Mequon, WI.

 was the Keynote Speaker.

R-Pastor John Johnson and L-Pastor John Kassouf 

 led opening worship for the convention.

 Visual Faith 101 - 

A break out session.

What would it look like 

for a new prayer story?

 Or to bless others with prayer?

 Or spend time reading and processing

 in the Enduring Word Bible.

 Thanks to Jamee Thieme 

for co-leading the breakout session with me.

 Spiritual practices lead

 to eager conversationalists.

We have seen God's faithfulness.

 Always plenty of Show and Tell

 for Visual Faith. 

 Great to team up with 

Visual Faith Coach- Jamee Thieme.

 Thank you for your leadership- 

outgoing President Edi Colis!

 For Sunday Am worship we were joined by 

Southeastern District President John Denninger

 as proclaimer.

Praying the Lord's blessings

 on the work of the LWML in the Southeastern District!

Praying in Community- Hurricane Florence

The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd,
 Olney, Maryland 

 held a prayer vigil to cover 

the church workers and churches 

affected by Hurricane Florence.

They prayed for the pastors and their wives

 and the congregations 

and members.

In prayer they remembered the first-responders

 and all those living in the devastated areas.

Debbie Harman shared the prayer cards

 where she added a Visual Prayer.
Flood waters are STILL rising
 in some areas in the next couple of days.
Please cover them in prayer for safety, 
ability to recover,
and hope in this time of devastation.

Thanks to Debbie Harman 
for taking time to share these with
 the Spiritual Life Team of the Southeastern District.

Visual Faith in Poland with Lisa Stanley

 Sometimes Visual Faith practices

 go with us in ministry to new places.

Here is a story from Lisa Stanley

 from July 4-29, 2018.

At Jawornik English Camp (JEC) in Poland,

 we have done a missionary story 

at the end of the day to settle the kids down. 

This year I asked if we could do Bible Journaling instead.

 Our Polish camp director said we could try it. 

Every morning we have a Bible story with a memory verse.

 The children compete for points at the end of camp. 

The room with the most points gets a prize. 

I had prepared a book with the Bible verses to Journal. 

Some of the campers hurried through,

 but some really took their time. 

One of the youngest campers took hers home

 to paint the picture 

and eagerly showed it to me the next morning.

Ania- one of the "overnighters", 

with her Visual Faith journal.

Another camper, who has dyslexia, 

 has problems in class with writing,

but loved drawing the pictures 

and so he could remember the verse. 

An older camper would work with him 

reading the Bible verse to him.

Here is a day camper with her Grandfather.

A fun intergenerational project.

This process really impressed
 the other counselors. 

This reached all levels of writing.

I wish I could have used the different mediums

 that I had brought like acrylics, gelatos, 

colored pencils and markers. 

But, we did this process in the chapel,

 so we didn't have tables set up. 

I am working on a way to have that happen next year.

 But, with 60 campers this might be hard.

  We do have the back of the pews that are slanted.

The work of international mission trips

 usually have their own set of problems to solve.

There is always a shortage of materials, 

supplies, and perhaps the format 

we would have used "back home."

We were blessed to introduce Visual Faith 

with our campers,

 and look forward to this being a part

  of all of our camps.

Lisa Stanley is a member of 
St. Paul Lutheran Church in Bay City, Michigan.
We thank her for sharing this story of encouragement
 to take Visual Faith Practices 
wherever the Lord sends us.
It is a story shared to give
 tools and insights for all of us.