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5 : disposable?
11 : [‘viltnis]15 : what’s next?
21 : pick a pocket tv
Welcome to Pick A Pocket’s first newsletter of the year!
We will be releasing a quarterly newsletter every 3
months to help you stay up to date and involved with
what we’re doing as a ministry. If you have any questions
or comments regarding our newsletter, please contact
[email protected] to share your thoughts and ideas.
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taylor pool : film photo with digital editing
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Stephen Sou : “Even death can’t” painting
website
www.pickapocket.net
partners
www.ywamfinearts.ning.com
www.isthisdisposable.tumblr.com
S a r a so t a f lo r i d aAs a community, YWAM Herrnhut has entered into a new season of expansion and growth and as Pick A Pocket we are experiencing the same. We are happy to welcome 8 new members to our Pick A Pocket team! As we are growing, we are also expanding. Three members of the Pick A Pocket team have moved to Florida to pioneer a Marriage of the Arts DTS with the goal of planting a long term satellite base from ywam herrnhut!
We look forward in bringing the vision of Pick a Pocket to America and are excited to see new platforms developing and ways to reach out. The team in Florida will begin by starting the very first Stateside Marriage of the Arts DTS in January 2014! For more information check out www.ywamherrnhut.com
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Pick A Pocket was able to start a homeless ministry called “Disposable?” in
London during the 2012 Olympics. This project is about giving the homeless a
voice to tell their stories and share their perspective on life, and the opportunity
to use their art and skills in new ways. We did this by giving them disposable
cameras to take pictures of their daily life; and what came out was absolutely
stunning. Adele, a long-term worker, continued working with them after we left
in July 2012. Every Monday Adele meets with them in The Living Room Cafe, hosted
by City Gate Church, to evaluate their photos. Pocketeers, Matthew & Rebecca,
went to London in April to assist Adele in creating a logo, printing photos, buying
frames, and putting up their first exhibition. It´s amazing to see them create and
see the shift from being labeled as “homeless” to “photographer”. We want to
continue this project and are thinking about bringing this exhibition to [‘viltnis] cafe and gallery in Herrnhut, and even on future Pick A Pocket tours.
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photo taken by ROL 6
7 PICKAPOCKET Photos taken by Bill Wood
http://isthisdisposable.tumblr.com/ Photos taken by Bill Wood 8
9 PICK A POCKET photos taken by Spike Aston
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[‘VILTNIS]CA F é&GALL e R Y
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Our cafe and gallery, [‘viltnis], has
been up and running since October
2012. We have had many locals as
well as people from out of town
come in to enjoy a cup of coffee and
to view the art exhibitions. Slowly
but surely we are reaching out to
the community of Herrnhut and
deepening friendships. Inside
[‘viltnis], we have a space for our
Pocketeers to work on their art.. In
the near future we will be able to
have the basement of the cafe open
up for our team to have an even
bigger working space.
a testimony from cafe barista, Ashley Davis.
“Part of the vision of the gallery
has always been to bring people
revelation of Jesus through the art
on display. Our second exhibition
was one that we felt strongly that
was orchestrated by God. We were
excited to see what He had in store.
Shortly after the opening, we had a
women come in to the cafe which we
spoke briefly as she drank her
coffee. As she walked around the
gallery, I felt that I was supposed
to ask if I could pray for her. She
agreed and as I prayed, I noticed that
she had begun to cry and so I
stopped and asked her why. She told
me that as she read one of the
artists statements and that God
spoke to her and cleared up the
confusion and pain that she has had
for many years. We continued
praying and as we finished she told
me that she felt completely free of
the depression she had been
battling for over 30 years. Praise be
to the Father that heals and
delivers!!!”
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what’snex t?EXHIBIT IONSOUTREACHTOURS
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PHOTO TAKEN BY TAYLOR POOL : STEPHEN SOU 16
We are looking forward to our upcoming outreaches and
tours this year which enable us to partner with
missionaries on the field and serve the poor. This summer/
early fall we are looking forward to reaching out to two
ministries in India that were started out of the YWAM
Herrnhut base. One of these is a German Bakery that was
started to help provide jobs and support for women
working in the red light districts in India so that they can
have alternative options for work and life. The other is a
ministry that focuses on supporting orphaned street
children and HIV victims in the rural areas of india. A small
team of Pocketeers will be visiting both projects to find
new ways to serve alongside these ministries.
This October, one of our Pocketeers, Stephen Sou, will have
a gallery exhibition in Shanghai, China. HIs exhibition will
be focused on bringing the Gospel through his paintings. “I
take verses from the Bible and create paintings out of the
different messages and meanings. It’s not an obvious
biblical painting so it can reach many people. I want to
show what people don’t see and understand in the Bible
through these paintings.” StepHen will be in Shanghai for
one month. To view his work please click here : www.stephensou.carbonmade.com
Liz and the Lions will be going on tour this May-June with
Brian Campbell, a musician from the USA. They will be
traveling through Germany, Poland and Austria. Check out
www.facebook.com/lizandthelions for tour dates,
locations and other information.
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PHOTOS TAKEN BY EMMA GOBEL : LIZ AND THE LIONS LIVE 18
19 PICKAPOCKET Painting by Stephen Sou : The Samaritan III
PHOTO TAKEN BY REBECCA MEINHARD : INDIAN TAILOR 20
Pick A Pocket TV is coming back to life!
Last year, we created a few episodes
hosted by Uli and Amanda, but now with a
newly formed team for Pick A Pocket TV,
we are currently working on new
episodes that will present a closer look
at the lifestyles of missionary- artists,
and how different people are using the
arts to fight extreme poverty. In a few
more weeks we will be releasing our
first episode of the year. we are excited
to share stories about our different pick
a pocket artists, the inspiration behind
their art, and testimonies about the
people they’ve met, If you want to see
what Pick A Pocket TV has created in the
past, please visit : www.vimeo.com/pickapocket
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