Stories & Reflections

For the past three years, grantees in the Strengthening Ministry with Children Coordination Program have seen Joel Schoon-Tannis capture key themes from the event on canvas. Joel sees his part in the conference as fulfilling a dual mission: to hold space by listening to what both God and neighbor are saying throughout the gathering, and to represent space by painting what he hears. Over the course of the conference, the canvases he sets up in the main gathering area take on t