Artstravaganza 2010

Friday night was  CPC's annual arts celebration.  Artists from within the church show off their talents in a concert and gallery opening.  There was some pretty impressive stuff played.

Sanctuary Dedication

The sanctuary dedication may be the most successful event CPC has ever hosted at getting the city to attend.  There were Yale professors, local businessmen, and gallery owners all there as well as many of the friends of CPC throughout the city like campus ministers from the various churches.  The place was packed and we had a fabulous reception beforehand and afterwards as well.  The pictures show us all praying over different parts of the sanctuary and a good one of anabaino, the painting.

Live at 135

New Haven hosts the International Festival of Arts and Ideas every June.  It is a 2 week festival with events all over town.  There are acts like jugglers and musicians on the town green complete with cart food every day and then big acts in all of our main venues.  The shows are usually a bit experimental or cutting edge and include ballets, plays, and music.  For instance, next June there will be a one man stage adaptation of Moby Dick.  There is a bit of a fringe festival that goes on at the same time with events in galleries and other venues throughout the city.  For the past couple of years we have participated by hosting a concert called "Live at 135" which is indeed our address.  This June we have Laura Usiskin, a regular attender and fantastic cellist, give two concerts on back-to-back Friday nights.  Over the course of the concerts she played the complete Bach cello suites.  Hot Off the Press provided the reception.  It was a fantastically fun event, with many from the city coming.  This is quite a lot of music for a single performer and quite famous pieces at that.   We are grateful to Laura for sharing her talent with us!

Back in the swing of things

Last week was wonderfully exciting with lots of possibility.  I organized several programs and I discussed new opportunities.  This week feels like it is back to the old grind with scheduling difficulties and the required waiting while others discuss the proposals.  I understand it, but busyness is my least favorite thing about living here.  Everyone is so busy all of the time!  The solution I have had to come to is be the aggressor.  If everything is competing for their time, then CPC is competing with everything else, not scheduling itself around everything else.  Still this is difficult especially as I take on high school ministry where they have incredibly fixed schedules and no car.  You can pray that I will have patience and persistence.  Thanks!