Christi's Creative Crew: Malachi 1:11

Our church has hired a new pastor and we absolutely love him and his family! He began in September of 2015 and our church body is growing already. Not just in numbers but in unity! - I just love it!! He started a sermon series last Sunday on the book of Malachi. He wanted to have anyone who is of artistic talent (dance, music, readings, skit, art, etc) to study the book prior to his sermon series and then submit some form of art. This all took place last Friday night. I absolutely loved the dance number - this gal is so great how she choreographs her pieces.
The verse I chose to high light for my Malachi submission is chapter 1 verse 11a "For from the rising of the sun until the setting of the same, My name will be great among the nations."
I envisioned beautiful sun-scapes on greeting cards. I googled sunsets, and I checked out other card makers on Pinterest, and cased a few to come up with 7 cards for my display

Then I went one step further and sponged this next piece on a 5x7 so I could frame it. Our daughter-in-law, Jessica, was so sweet to agree to do the beautiful calligraphy verse on it for me.

This was my display: all displays will be kept out throughout the 8-9 week sermon series.

Here are the other submissions - I loved them all, and was intrigued by how each artist chose a different section of the book of Malachi that stood out to them.

This first one is hard to see because of the glare on the glass but she took the 2 pictures you see on the right and made a double exposure photo in black and white. It is very moving.