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Blood:Water Mission
Charlie Peacock
International Justice Mission
Jars of Clay
Sara Groves
In 2008, a group of Christian singers and songwriters led by Sara Groves and Charlie Peacock banded together to take the Art/Music/Justice tour on the road. The purpose behind the tour was to use the framework of songs and creative arts as a platform for raising awareness of injustice around the world, and to inspire followers of Christ to live fully integrated lives – incorporating their faith into all aspects of daily living.
April 16-18, 2010 we have the privilege of bringing Art/Music/Justice here to The Falls Church for a special weekend event. Over the course of those three days, through special concerts and seminars, we will have the opportunity to talk in new ways about stewarding our lives well. The purpose behind this event is threefold:
1) We will be challenged to think in new ways about what it is that God has given each one of us.
What are my passions? My skills? My circumstances? What does it mean to believe that these come from God, for his good purpose, to be used by Him for his glory?
2) We will cause one another to ask, “How can I more fully use what I have been given, to glorify God and to build his kingdom?”
Our seminars on April 17 will offer ample opportunity, with teaching by a variety of gifted speakers, to probe into some of these questions at a more personal level. For example: What if I don’t think I have anything to offer? How can I know what my “gifts” even are? What if all I have is pain? How can God use that? I can’t go overseas to serve the poor – What does it mean to “live justly” right here, right now?
3) Finally, we will celebrate the ways that so many individuals with ties to TFC are already “using what they have” to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.
For example, Shep Owen will join us on Sunday morning April 18. The son of TFC missionaries Sam and Lynn Owen, Shep grew up in Falls Church and in Nairobi, Kenya. Shep now serves as the director of Food for the Hungry’s northern Kenya projects, working in conjunction with Blood:Water Mission (a global non-profit started by Jars of Clay) to provide famine relief and clean water. Shep is using some of his furlough time to come and share with us all that God is doing in northern Kenya, and to offer ways that we might partner with him as well.
