Happenings

There have been a lot of things going on at the castle lately, a lot of good things. Let’s see if I can sum this up without taking up too much of your time.

One thing that happened this past week was our very first critique night. I’ll explain what it is first. Critique Night is a time when we all get to share our art with the rest of the school and really just fill the castle from the basement to the attic with a lot of great stuff.  Everyone had comment cards or paper next too each of their pieces and it was just a time when we got to tell everyone what we thought about their work. There was a dance by the dance track, performances by the music track all over the castle, photos by the photo track all around the student floor and in the stairwells, a lot of painting and drawings and sculptures made by the fine art track, some really nicely designed stuff by the graphic design track, and finally two full tables bursting with handmade things by our track.

The day leading up to the evening was a little stressful, because we had just one day to prepare everything. That meant finishing off our nearly complete pieces, pricing anything that was meant to be sold, making comment cards, collaborating with the other girls in the track about setting things up, making our display look nice, making a description card about my collection, and more. So the six of us who could worked from after lunch right up to 7pm in our crowded little studio, made a huge mess, but ultimately, set up a great display. If you want to see what it is I am making, I will be posting photos on http://thethingwithfeatherscollection.wordpress.com, which is the blog that I am setting up as a requirement for the track. I just made the account though, so there’s nothing there as of yet. But hopefully soon!

Another thing that happened here was the announcement of the MOTA plans for after outreach ends! So how our school is set up, we have a 12 week lecture phase, a 10-11 week outreach phase, and then we come back to the base around mid-February. I don't graduate from the school until the end of March though, so what is it we're doing for the last month and a half? We will come back to the castle and do some intense art-ing for 3 weeks, and then we split up into small teams and we will take our art and our stories and go on tour around Europe! It'll be a 10 day tour to just tell people about what is happening at YWAM Herrnhut. We don't have any locations nailed down yet, we'll probably do a lot in Germany, but we're definitely not restricted to this country! We also need God to provide us with some money, places to stay, open doors, and about 20 vans to truck us all around.

I guess that's all for now. A few prayer requests beyond those mentioned above would just be for finances, a lot of us still do not have all our money in yet, even though we know it will come, and just for more of Jesus everyday. We've seen a lot of breakthrough, but there's always more space for God to fill in us. Thank you for your prayers! Auf Wiedersehen!!