NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Summer Recap & Fall Begins

The summer has ended for Friday Arts Project and the work of Fall activities begins. What does that mean for us? Our weekly discussion group on Friday mornings continues. This month we are reading and discussing excerpts from Wesley Vander Lugt’s book called Beauty Is...
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Forum 2024

Through my tending of living, growing things, let me offer those who dwell nearby refreshing glimpses of beauty rather than of clutter and decay, of harmony rather than disorder, and of attentive care rather than long neglect. —Douglas McKelvey, from A Liturgy for...
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Sketchbooks in the making

On one of my recent appointments with a fellow Cru staff—Chris, I found him hard at work cutting covers off books—a typical activity around this time of year. Now before you reel let me tell you the whole story of this annual occurrence. For many years now we have...
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Farewell to Hill City Church

When we first moved to Rock Hill—11 years ago—we knew where we were going to go to church. Most of the artists we knew were going to Hill City Church. It was planted around 2011 and had already been meeting together for a year or more when we arrived. In fact we had...
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