Haiti, we are with you. Feel our love and our prayers pour out to you.

Art4Haiti sells art prints by members of Art4TheHomeless

All proceeds will go to the various Haiti Relief Funds including The Red Cross, BushClinton Haiti Fund, and Unicef.

All prints will be sent via email once purchase is complete.

Show Your Colors by Jennifer is selling Haiti Flag color bracelets and donating $10 from each bracelet to Art4Haiti. Click on the link that says Haiti Bracelet to see the selection and purchase.

http://www.wix.com/Art4TheHomeless/Art4Haiti

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Haiti.

We all know they are suffering and millions around the world are doing their part to help. So is Art4TheHomeless.

Right now, two artists have donated prints to be sold for a dollar. All proceeds made will go to The Red Cross.

All prints are digital and will be shipped by email.

http://www.wix.com/Art4TheHomeless/Art4Haiti

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The soothing strum of Gil's guitar greets you as you hit play. His voice is filled with sadness, yet a sense of hope for our homeless youth. The feature homeless shelter is Covenant House, a homeless shelter in the US, Canada, Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua. Gil is selling his music to benefit Covenant House Our Feature Artists are Joy Lynn Rosser aka Elf of Shreveport, LA and Sharon aka Legacy of the Cauldron of Ireland

LINKS
Covenant House
http://www.covenanthouse.org
Gil
http://gilsmusic.bandcamp.com/
Joy
http://www.art4thehomeless.org/profil...

Sharon
http://www.legacyofthecauldron.com/

Art4TheHomeless
http://www.art4thehomeless.org
Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Tags: Art4TheHomeless Covenant House Gil Joy Lynn Rosser aka Elf Legacy of the Cauldron

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A new day has come. A new month has come, and a New Year is once again upon us. I barely had time to say good bye to 2008 when 2009 came and went. So as we embrace 2010, I want to say this to everyone:

Thank you, my friends and online friends, thank you, Lord Jesus, thank you, who are supportive of Art4TH.

I give thanks that I have a roof over my head, my mother is alive, and I am in contact with her cousin and his wife. I ask God to bless them. I thank God for my job and my coworkers who are like a little family.


For all the people who have turned their back on my friendship, I ask God to bless you doubly for you were in my life for a reason.

For all you who I have offended, I did not intend to offend. I apologize and ask for forgiveness. And I also forgive myself.

In 2010, I will not harbor guilt of past sins and will now harbor resentment of sins against me. What is done, is done. The only thing we can do is move on and I choose to move on with love in my heart, not hate or bitterness.

I ask that God blesses each and everyone of you who are reading this. Happy New Year everyone. Let us treasure each moment we have with our loved ones this year.

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I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May you have many blessings this Christmas. Much love to everyone who is willing to receive it!

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Shreveport, LA 1993

My mother and I had just moved to Louisiana. We were staying at The Providence House. It was the Evergeen House then. We had been there since the week before Thanksgiving. I was being transferred into a new school, in a new state. This wasn't new to me though. I had moved around so much as a child, my mother wanted to keep us off the streets.

I knew that I wasn't going to get anything for Christmas because Santa didn't know where we were.

The shelter had a huge Christmas tree in the family room with presents under the tree but not real presents--only decoration.

I remember being in the family room on Christmas Eve. It was in the afternoon. Christmas dinner was being served and KSLA News 12 was blaring on the TV about Santa's leaving the North Pole. Someone was playing Christmas carols on the piano.

My mother and I ate and went to our little room. We shared a bathroom with another family. Later that night, Mom was asleep. There was a tap on our bathroom door. It was one of the other kids.

"Santa's coming! Let's go down!"

I remember hesitating. We weren't supposed to be out of our rooms after nine--or ten--I can't remember.

I went with Deedee and her brother and we silently padded down to the stairs. So far, no one spotted us. I opened the door to the main hall and the three of us softly went down the stairs. It was slow because we wanted to be quiet. I still didn't think Santa was going to find us.

Cold air greeted us. Someone was holding the door open. We heard people talking. We continued on down the stairs and finally saw what was going on: There were several of Santa Clauses of all shapes and sizes bringing in huge black trash bags full of stuff.

Deedee, Matt and I sat there for a couple of hours watching them bring in the bags. I remember telling them that perhaps Santa knew the other families were here but my mother didn't have a chance to inform him that we were here. Deedee said that she would share her gifts with me if we didn't get anything. I just knew there was no way I could have a present because we had no family and no one to know where we were.

Finally, the Santa Clauses started to leave and one of them noticed us. Deedee and Matt bolted. Santa looked at me and smiled. He held his finger to his lips as if to say, "I won't tell anyone that you are down here," winked and walked out the door.

I ran up the stairs to where Deedee and Matt were. They asked me what had happened and I told them.

We all went back to our rooms where our mothers were waiting on us. My mom scolded me and their mom scolded them. It wasn't too bad since we didn't get caught by any of the staff and after we told our parents what we saw and that Santa smiled and winked at me, we knew we weren't in any trouble.

I finally went to sleep. Mom and I were woken up by someone pounding on the door.

The staff were singing Christmas carols and yelling "Merry Christmas!"

Mom said, "Johnna, look!" as someone brought us seven huge bags of gifts. I heard Deedee and Matt squealing in the room next to us. I couldn't speak. There were several of presents with my NAME on them! Not just random gifts but gifts with my NAME on them.

Deedee came and said "I TOLD you! He would find you!"

Many of the presents were jigsaw puzzles with like 5,000 pieces. There was one beautiful glass babydoll. There were clothes, Barbies, and tons of stuffed animals.

I had more toys than I ever had any Christmas. I remember jumping up and down, crying and screaming--with joy.

We went to breakfast for Christmas morning and later on there were more people with food and candy.

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Joy Lynn Rosser aka Elf donated this art image to Art4TheHomeless to help us raise money to cover the IRS Tax Exemption fee of $350. Her piece, Something Fishy, was one of the pieces that I put in the Art4TH Etsy gallery. It has been featured. To see it to here:
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http://alexandersdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/11/craft-patch-craft-show-lees-summit-mo.html

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