VOICE Bringing Eternal Arts to the Streets Community Youth Development

Community- A Place of Communion

Communion is based on some common inner experience of love; it is a recognition of being one body, one people, called by God to be a source of love and peace. Its fulfillment is more in silence than in words, more in celebration than in work. It is an experience of openness and trust that flows from what is innermost in a person; it is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Change of Art

This summer BEATS is bringing to the Grove “Change of Art”.
We’ll be teaching the urban arts to the youth for:
Personal Change
Community Change
Economic Change
World Change
Change of Art.
Skilled artists will be teaching:
-Threads (T-shirt designing/creating)
-Hip Hopology (Hip Hop writing, mixing, producing, etc..)
-Street Art (murals)
-Soul View (Photography)
-The New Entrepreneur (starting artistic businesses)
Each class will include:
-History of the art form
-God [...]

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The Little Way ~ A Lenten Reflection

As I  prepare to celebrate the death, burial and triumphant resurrection of Jesus Christ this week I have been reading Henri Nouwen’s book Show Me the Way. This is Monday’s excerpt, one that I think very clearly spells out something I often feel deeply but have a difficult time expressing so I wanted to share it [...]

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