In June, the Servant Partners world converged in Oaxtepec, Mexico for our All-Staff Gathering. This was a time of rest and inspiration. One source of both those goods was the art we enjoyed around our meeting space. We at The Mural wanted to share these pieces with you.
Andy Singleterry led us through a reflective Bible study in I Kings 19. In the first half of that story, Elijah visits four locations and interacts with four characters; Cayla Sanderlin made these four paintings, each one representing one of the locations. They marked stations around the room so that participants could imaginatively circulate through the places, joining Elijah on his journey.
A meaningful, powerful sign of hope in urban ministry is organic growth breaking through the pavement. Matt Hayashida depicted this familiar occurrence in this piece.
One of the dramatic success stories in Servant Partners’ advocacy history is our partnership against a toxic oil drilling site in one of our Los Angeles neighborhoods. (You can read about this story in Jen Blue’s chapter of Voices Rising.) Cayla Sanderlin told this story through the medium of cut paper.
Our hospitality team devised a way for all the Servant Partners sites and departments to contribute to the beauty of our space. Each team was sent a page with seemingly random swishes of white space against a black background and asked to fill the space with photos or art that represented their ministry. When we came together at ASG, all those pages fit together like a puzzle to make this composite representation of our organization. Here you see the white-on-black model, a drawing of dance and movement by Jenira Bremner, and the completed piece.
