a painting for Haiti

Export to PDF | Export to DOCToday is the first day of the 2010 Together For Adoption National Conference. It’s being held both today and tomorrow in Austin, Texas. With over 160 million orphans worldwide, this conference exists to educate people on how to practically live out “James 1:27” which says we are to care […]

these are real people I’m painting (“HAITI: we have not forgotten” part 5/5)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI’m in the home stretch of this painting I’m creating for the 2010 Together For Adoption Conference. It’s called “HAITI: We Have Not Forgotten.” It will be auctioned off in an effort to hopefully raise at least $10,000 to help the orphans in Haiti. Here’s photos from Day 10 […]

beauty in the rubble (“HAITI: We Have Not forgotten” part 4/5)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCIf you’ve been following my blog, then you know I’m in the midst of talking about a painting I’m creating as a donation to the 2010 Together For Adoption Conference, and their efforts to raise money for the orphans of Haiti. Day 8 into my painting called  “HAITI: We […]

hanging out the wash (“Haiti: We Have Not Forgotten” part 3/5)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCHow do you stay clean while living in a tent? How do you live in a tent with strangers? How do you move on when your life and city has been devastated by an earthquake? I do not know. I’ve spent seven days trying to untangle a very complicated […]

I’m painting for the orphans in Haiti (“HAITI: we have not forgotten” part 2/5)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCI’ve creating an oil painting which I am donating to help raise money for the orphans in Haiti. It will be auctioned off at the 2010 Together for Adoption Conference which is being help on October 1-2 in Austin, Texas this year. Here’s some photos of days three and […]

HAITI: we have not forgotten (part 1/5)

Export to PDF | Export to DOCOn September 1, 2010 I began working on a new painting. It’s inspired by a photo that was taken in Port-au-Prince, Haiti just four months after this city was devastated by the earthquake on January 12, 2010. This earthquake has left over 400,000 children as orphans. My painting was […]

One less Orphan!

Export to PDF | Export to DOCOur friends just had the adoption of their new daughter finalized. They were in the midst of the adoption process before the earthquake happened in Haiti in January. On the night of the earthquake we were all together, and we prayed for the day when they could bring this […]