PICK A POCKET APRIL 2012
ONLINE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
content 3 : florida 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 info@pickapocket.net to share your thoughts and ideas. front cover taylor pool : film photo with digital editing Back Cover Stephen Sou : “Even death can’t” painting website www.pickapocket.net partners www.ywamfinearts.ning.com www.isthisdisposable.tumblr.com
S a r a s o t a f l o r i d a As 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
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Photos taken by Bill Wood
http://isthisdisposable.tumblr.com/
Photos taken by Bill Wood
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photos taken by Spike Aston
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[‘VILT N I S]C A F é &G A L LeRY
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Our cafe and gallery, [‘viltnis], has
on display. Our second exhibition
been up and running since October
was one that we felt strongly that
2012. We have had many locals as
was orchestrated by God. We were
well as people from out of town
excited to see what He had in store.
come in to enjoy a cup of coffee and
Shortly after the opening, we had a
to view the art exhibitions. Slowly
women come in to the cafe which we
but surely we are reaching out to
spoke briefly as she drank her
the community of Herrnhut and
coffee. As she walked around the
deepening friendships. Inside
gallery, I felt that I was supposed
[‘viltnis], we have a space for our
to ask if I could pray for her. She
Pocketeers to work on their art.. In
agreed and as I prayed, I noticed that
the near future we will be able to
she had begun to cry and so I
have the basement of the cafe open
stopped and asked her why. She told
up for our team to have an even
me that as she read one of the
bigger working space.
artists statements and that God spoke to her and cleared up the
a testimony from cafe barista, Ashley Davis.
confusion and pain that she has had
“Part of the vision of the gallery
battling for over 30 years. Praise be
has always been to bring people revelation of Jesus through the art
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for many years. We continued praying and as we finished she told me that she felt completely free of the depression she had been to the Father that heals and delivers!!!”
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what’s next?
EXHIBITIONS OUTREACH TOURS
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PHOTO TAKEN BY TAYLOR POOL : STEPHEN SOU
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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
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Painting by Stephen Sou : The Samaritan III
PHOTO TAKEN BY REBECCA MEINHARD : INDIAN TAILOR
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Pick A Pocket TV is coming back to life!
more weeks we will be releasing our
Last year, we created a few episodes
first episode of the year. we are excited
hosted by Uli and Amanda, but now with a
to share stories about our different pick
newly formed team for Pick A Pocket TV,
a pocket artists, the inspiration behind
we are currently working on new
their art, and testimonies about the
episodes that will present a closer look
people they’ve met, If you want to see
at the lifestyles of missionary- artists,
what Pick A Pocket TV has created in the
and how different people are using the
past, please visit :
arts to fight extreme poverty. In a few
www.vimeo.com/pickapocket
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