What is Vision 10810 ?
Vision 10810 is the answer to the question of a YWAM DTS student on a mission trip in Costa Rica. The question asked on August 10, 2010 was: How can I serve you Lord with my skills as an Engineer?
The answer: To design and build semi-trucks which can provide housing for a 12 person team, a full equipped stage to do evangelism and provide a place to store Bibles. These trucks would be more than just a stage. It would be a mission headquarters on wheels.
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I’ve had this piece on my heart for a few years now and I still haven’t made it real yet… I need to
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‘We believe that no-one lacks the ability to work and to create something beautiful, but what is often lacking is the opportunity to do so, especially for people with disabilities in Iringa’
‘At Neema Crafts we believe everybody has great gifts and potential. We all have talents, skills and abilities; we are all loved and valued by God and should give each other respect and dignity accordingly.’
‘Neema Crafts aims to create those opportunities for people who have been considered to be without potential or ability; and to change negative attitudes towards them.’
Drinking coffee and overlooking the Swiss Alps I didn’t expect to be in deep conversation about the rights of disabled people in Tanzania but I’m glad I did! This company is amazing and I’ve loved getting to know more about what they do.
Check them out —- > http://www.neemacrafts.com/
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12 is the average age of children who begin prostitution but they have been sold as young as 1
The sex industry cannot exist without the money of those who chose to pay for sex.
No child wakes up in the morning and thinks ‘I want to be a prostitute today’
These children are slaves in the land of the free.
Should Art be scary?
Or put a different way - can art that intentionally scares have a positive impact?
This is just a train of thought in response to a comment a friend made on my previous post, the quote by Jason Mraz.
I think that if done with the right motivations art can be scary with a constructive effect.
It can motivate change; cause us to not just look at the world but really see it and to see ourselves too - those things can all be scary.
So often we can float through life and consider it all roses and sunshine, shutting off the issues that others face and art forces us to see them. Art allows hyperbole but also reality.
Historically it was the painters, the poets and now it is photographers, musicians, journalists.
Its interesting though isn’t it? Newspapers are not longer the ‘King’ makers but social media is the new foot-in-the-door of fame.
That scares me for different reasons.
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Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.
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Using their God-based heart for justice and their passion for top quality work to produce elegant fashion for their clothing line.
The idea of creating a female fashion line came to us as we witnessed more and more women escaping shelter and needlessly returning to the streets, lured solely by the promise of money. We knew then that we had to build something that would give rescued women the opportunity to be involved in something worthwhile, in something that engaged their minds and talents, in something they could contribute to without restriction and with no shame.
“We’d heard about Freeset, the Fairtrade business that offers employment and salaries to women previously trapped in Kolkata’s sex ring, and it seemed ideal to support it.”
Freeset - http://freesetglobal.com/
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'Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced'Leo Tolstoy
