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If you were at Church on Sunday, you will have heard me talking about my journey with God over the past ten years or so, and the exciting plans that are beginning to develop for the next few months – which means that we will be moving to London to plant a Church! God has really been challenging me over the past ten years, and preparing me to leave Loughborough to pursue his Kingdom elsewhere.[25-04-08] Baptisms video April '08
Lizzy was baptised last weekend.[23-04-08] Boys 'n' girls social images
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Incubate Arts: Morocco 2005
"Even
though we come from two different countries, we have different
cultures, different traditions, we speak Arabic, the children speak
Berber, you speak English, we have different religions and beliefs...
but this week we have been family"The headmistress at the girls primary school in Morocco summed up the atmosphere of our week there beautifully. We were all blown away by the incredible hospitality that is central to Moroccan culture. Each day as we taught art workshops at the school, the teachers laid out a lavish 'second breakfast' consisting of Moroccan pancakes, biscuits, bread, cakes and mint tea.
We had two wonderful weeks teaching art to about 700 children living in this small Muslim market town in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. Nine artists from the Church of Loughborough (and Incubate) took part in the project, and we each found that the smiles of the children as they had the opportunity to be creative, were well worth the journey. We also discovered how it felt to be the 'pied piper', as we walked
home each day through the dusty streets, with groups of chattering children following behind us.It was great to return to the town after only 9 months, to strengthen friendships that were started last summer, and to demonstrate our commitment to the place. It was also inspiring to see how things had developed for Gill (centre manager, Morocco) as a result of the project last year.
Due to the fact that art in schools seems to be fairly unheard of in Morocco, we had visits from a minister
of education, president of the PTA, a local government official and a
minister of the interior, who expressed his appreciation to us and his
desire for Gill to run further projects to meet the needs of the town.
We felt amazingly welcomed by the local community, and in our own ways we were each inspired as artists by this fresh cultural experience of Morocco.
Posted by: Mel Page on Thursday Apr 14th, 2005
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- Andy Pask writes:
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Yes yes yes!!! Great stuff Mel, dad is really doing amazing things through u guys. I love the continuity of the project and also the fact that we can express how amazing our dad is through art. Its so exciting to read what u have been upto, our dad is truely international isn't he!! Love andy :)
xxxx...left on Friday Apr 15th, 2005
- Rob Margetts writes:
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very colourful!!! my rabbits uncle lives there
...left on Monday Sep 26th, 2005
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