This has been an exciting week for TCAF.  Let me fill you in.  First, our meeting on Monday the 18^th has some neat stuff happen.  We started to work on our first real project, the First Friday (December 6^th) Meet the Local Artist event at Susan Palmer’s Tehachapi Christian Store.  One of the artists who’ll you’ll be meeting is Valerie Provines, pictured here:

  Valerie is an impressionist and these are two of her works:

Our Landscape photographer, Gail Martin, who took these pictures,  will also be there showing some of her works.  

Rene Hajj, pictured here: 

will do double duty.  She’ll present a couple of her poems from her poetry gift book (one of them, Savior, is on the right), then go out to meet all of you as Mary, Mother of Jesus, passing out invitations to the event and answering any questions you might have about Mary, and her most precious son.

Along with Rene, a number of other TCAF members, those who are actors and writers, began rehearsals to become the other biblical characters you’ll meet that night.  Mike Sanders began researching his role as John the Baptist, Brian Smith did the same for his portrayal of Peter, and 11-year old Leah Terry began thinking about how she would greet you as one of the children who came to Jesus in Matthew 19:13-15. “Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.  But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”  And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.”

We then spoke with 15-year old Kyla Hansen.  Her drawings were featured earlier on this blog.  Kyla will be partnering with TCAF to do some Christian Christmas Cards that might appeal to teens and be for teens.  We’ll be working on those in the days to come.

Okay, that was Monday night.  On Tuesday night we held our first Mini-Seminar (2 hours) at the Tehachapi Christian Store.  We had eight attendees learn how to write a novel with impact.  Two things about this event.  1) is was well received and will be put on again with greater publicity after the first of the year, and 2) it showed that this format – a 2-hour seminar on a weeknight – actually works.  It allows busy people to get the highlights of a given topic, to meet and hear the comments of other interested people, and establish a relationship with all concerned so they might learn more in the future.  With these obvious advantages, Lord willing, TCAF will put on more of these Mini-Seminars in 2014.

We also decided starting this Monday night, because of the early darkness, the winter weather, and it allows everyone to get home earlier, we’ll start our meetings at 6pm and go to about 7:30pm.  See you there!  Bill