After 2020 we all adapted and God made incredible new roads for us! Our Exhibit catalog was a big focus of work for 2021
The amazing story of how in 10 minutes God gave us a 6-year vision come true!!! fullcirclemeaningfulmarketplace
Serving the Youth Center of Orange, supporting after-school care for our community.
1275 newspaper articles folded into paper airplanes as released prayers for all those suffering from Covid
Finished the stay in January with a great prayer circle of healing! saddlebackvisualarts
After a very long 6+ year wait Kari was installing her artwork within the week of meeting FCMM!
Alyssia, Kari & Holiday! Each was a gift from God! Holiday’s vision of a thrift/reused store, Alyssia the incredible manager, and their wealth of volunteers. Kari was available with incredible artwork all framed and ready to show!
First Gallery Exhibit
The beginning of the store and our space were so quiet and calming.
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Michelle Pelsue came alongside to help us make sense of our new world of ministry! @a.e.ministries
a.e.ministries Michelle & Joel Pelsue are the best, check out their ministry!
https://www.ericleonardjones.com
Paintings honoring Eric's family & friends…all loved by God, the gallery felt like a church with saints in stained glass windows.
It is all about family!
Incredibly powerful paintings!!!
Thank you Eric!!!
The store grew and our commitment to the gallery space continued throughout 2021!
Denise, Eric, Cindi with portraits of saints filling the space…
So honored to have Eric’s paintings!!!
thanks to St John’s Lutheran for supporting this announcement!
After endless hours of writing and researching God simply gave us Full Circle while Covid shut down the huge Saddleback Church campus.
Denise, Anne Baumgartner, & Marda Stothers
…still researching what SEEDS could do up north!
Back again dreaming the day SEEDS travels north, another research trip with Marda, Nora, Mike & Denise
Cathing up with Brian!
…at the empty new home of Jim & Mary! It was a curator’s delight! Big white walls and no furniture!
The paintings moved up higher as the store grew & grew
Thank you Jim! Each exhibit is an new adventure and all are blessed!
Rejoicing with Jim & Mary Thompson, David & Cindi Rhodes, Mike & Denise Weyhrich, and our store manager Alyssa !!!
Cindi, Kari Dunham, Eric Jones, Denise, and Jim Thompson are in the gallery!!
#leeannicole 25 kids joined us painting canvases inspired by Jim Thompson! So much fun painting with the kids! with Christie & Dylan Sohie & daughter!!!
25 posters with Christ Cathedral’s 4th graders with Betsey Elliott and signs by the Early family
WPPI creative award with Rob Tran photography work with Casting Crowns Denise’s installations! #rob_tran
Research trip & catching up with the best artists!!!
Denise & Cindi at Houston Museum of Art
At their church!!! St Joseph Orthodox Church tour with father Joseph
blessed to travel for SEEDS!
Chris was with SEEDS from the beginning!
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art
and kidnapping other artists along the way! yes that is Grace Carol Bomer
oh! so much fun meeting new artists and viewing their artworks!
Released at St David’s church chapel
In front of Shen’s mural, at St David’s Austin!
The mural was a gift to the church from SHEN, where many artists from the conference gave their talents to help this beautiful mural in the lobby!
September & October 2022
You can visit this exhibit 24/7 within the Grimm Hall buildings!
Yes, that is Marc Chagall! Adam & Eve cast out of Eden.
Hallways, lecture rooms, computer labs, classrooms administration offices, lounges
In Concordia Grimm building student lounge
Masterworks filled our gallery from the historic hands of the founder of the Tiki movement!
…it was amazing!!! An honor and privilege!
The gallery was filled with the history of Leroy’s tikis, oceanic arts, and artworks of faith!
Edie & Leah & Robert! Always a delight, doing all for their dad!
The exhibit ran through the end of January 2022 ending with a HUGE OCEANIC PARTY!
On Christmas day Vivian was always our supreme supporter, instigator, and friend in all things SEEDS, of course with LeRoy
We were so grateful to have all LeRoy’s art fill the gallery, as well as his friends and family. All this as LeRoy’s moved to heaven in 2022.
& celebrating that our end-of-year fundraiser was in the mail on time!