Wednesday, February 4, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SALE

I’ve been here in San Francisco four months now. The past couple of days have been packed full of new experiences and lessons learned. Still loving every minute of it. We have pretty much figured out our schedule for each day of the week more or less. We have a different guest speakers each week coming from all over. Two weeks ago we had Patrick Dodson from New Zealand, this week have Mark Scandrett, the author of Soul Graffiti from the Mission District of San Francisco. The Mission District is about two miles south of where we live; basically right in our backyard. So as you can see we experience a wide variety of theologies and cultures from each speaker. We have about 12 hours of class time a week. Four hours on Monday and two hours Tuesday through Friday. Yesterday Mark invited us to his home for class. It was so great seeing the inside of these vintage San Francisco duplexes. The architecture alone here is enough to captivate you. Anyways, we had class with the 12 of us students the 3 leaders and Mark all crammed in his living room. Sipping on hot tea, surrounding the coffee table lit by candle light, sitting on whatever space there was on the ground. Mixed in with lecture time and head learning we have worship, group prayer, prayer walks, our individual ministries and just hanging out in the “Ellis Room”, our homeless drop in center downstairs during our free time.

We’ve all split up and joined ministry groups as we feel called. The group that I am apart of is a Women’s Out Reach Group. Where we do exactly that, reach out to the women of the Tenderloin. Every Wednesday night I and three other girls host a Ladies Only night at 7:00p.m. Starting at 6:30 we go out on Ellis St. and start pulling ladies in off the street persuading them with a warm place, coffee and snacks. So far women have been receptive. Of course these things are simply a way to lure women in so we can talk and get to know them and start building up relationships and trust. We met the sweetest lady named Molly last week, she lives on the streets on Market St. We had a great time of honesty and life story sharing. We hope to get the same women week after week and new women with time. We are really pioneering this ministry so it will take time to take off but we are really excited about its endless possibilities.


Before this or on other days we get flowers from a corner flower shop to pass out to stripers and/or prostitutes to tell them we care and that they are beautiful. We’ve gotten some good responses with this. Really we are in an experimental stage to see what the women of the Tenderloin really would be receptive to hearing. My heart breaks for their broken hearts and I can’t wait to see a change begin on these streets. Because this ministry and the Ladies Night ministry is just in the beginning and it is our idea (the students) there is no budgeted money from YWAM for things such as flowers and coffee and such. Thus that is coming out of our own pocket but we can really only afford to do that for so long because we ourselves or broke. We have faith God will provide for this ministry so that we can keep going with full force. That is simply a problem we are facing at this moment. Please keep our finances and the hearts of the women here in your prayers.



SO GUESS WHAT GUYS! I have my fancy new SLR camera as of a couple months ago as a gift and I’ve been putting it to use here in the bay area. I’m in need of about $4,000 dollars. So I’ve decided be proactive and to start selling my work as a means of fund raising. I believe God has granted me with a gift and I think that this would be a great way to cultivate this gift. I need practice and I need funds. Both are very practical. So here’s the pitch: It costs me $5.00 to print off a 8x10 photo. Shipping would be about $1.00. I can print in different sizes and such as well. Customize it I guess. Beyond that donations would accepted to go towards my mission here and my outreach to Italy. I’ve set aside my Tuesday and Sunday afternoons to going out and taking more pictures so that I can continually be producing new schemes and choices. I can also take requests of things you would like. My work can be viewed on the flickr link below.



Check Out My Photographs on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26577162@N05/

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