Day three at New Dawn means our presentation to each other and to the New Dawn teaching staff. Judy was our producer/director extrodinaire and helped our team create a fabulous program incorporating all the wonderful work the students did over the last 2 days.
Ken started us out again with a devotion about Hagar the outcast , and the God who sees us, which was our the theme for the week.
Early in the presentation, my art students gave an explanation of the tree of life painting that we created together.
Two students spoke about the tree while the others held up their individual tree of life drawings.
This is Pauline sharing about the tree. She had these enormous eyes. She was incredible sweet and hung on every word when I was teaching about how one could use art to address emotion and pain in life. I frequently caught her staring off into the distance with this sorrowful look in those beautiful eyes.
After the presentation of the painting there was a wonderful variety of poetry created by Ann and Nina's group of students mixed with songs created by the students in Lance and Sanna's group.
Keissie, who I have been connected to since my first year at New Dawn, recited and sang this incredible poem that she had created with Ann and Nina. She spoke of both the abuse she has suffered in the past from her uncle, and of breaking through to choosing love. Many of us were in tears.
Judy's group prepared a play about Hagar. It was very well done, though she will report that it felt like pulling teeth at the beginning. They pulled it off!
We even had a rapper!
Lance and Sanna did an amazing job leading the students and encouraging their gifts of music.
After the presentation we had our certificate ceremony and then the teachers, who were just blown away by the performance each stood up to encourage the students and to thank our team for coming to New Dawn.
After that we presented our gifts to the school to Pastor Sammy. Judy donated her guitar that Sanna and Lance used.
Lance donated the tambourines and shakers on behalf of our church.
I donated the paint and brushes and supplies. The art students were so excited.
I was also able to donate Greg's old laptop to Joseph, who was so incredibly thrilled. He wanted to be sure we took a picture to show Greg.
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