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Art show to raise funds for mission trip by selling locally-handmade pieces

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An wide array of local artists’ handmade pieces will be for sale on silent auction at the upcoming art show fundraiser for the Eastman United Methodist Church Youth Group mission trip. The show is Sunday, April 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. (Photo by Correne Martin)

By Correne Martin

Nine members of the Eastman United Methodist Church Youth Group are taking a mission trip to southern Missouri this summer. To raise money for the annual, industrious and enlightening occasion, an art show fundraiser is planned for Sunday, April 30, from 3 to 5 p.m., at Gatherings on the Ridge in rural Eastman.

Artists’ donated work will be on display and for sale via silent auction for minimum bids of $30 apiece. Some of the local talents creating the pieces for sale include Sharon Dearborn, Gayle Patraw, Lisa Rogers, Lisa Miller, Cody Sime, Hans Glick, Nancy Dowling, Nate Bremmer, Tracy Morovits-Feye, Krystal Forde and others­—about 20 artists in total. The array of art will feature framed and canvas paintings, a quilt, small furniture, photography, greeting cards, batik pieces and kids’ art.

Refreshments will be for sale, including some cupcakes made by Linda Hanson. Also, the Prairie du Chien High School vocal jazz group, Out to Lunch, will perform throughout the show.

Tickets to attend cost a small fee, but they will also double as a raffle for a piece of art.

All proceeds from the event will help send the youth to Missouri, where they will repair homes of people who are elderly, disabled or poor. The teens, in grades 8-12, will leave June 25, along with Pastor Lynn Schreck as well as youth from their sister churches in Wauzeka and Boscobel. Stan Pegram, the pastor at BMZ UMC in Boscobel, is coordinating the mission for teens from throughout the state.

“There’s a zero tolerance, no complaining and unplugged policy,” noted parent and art show organizer Tracy Morovits-Feye. “Many of the chaperones are pastors who are also musicians, so there’s contemporary worship every day. They do roofwork, painting, porch building for four, 10-hour days and, then, their fifth day is a free day.”

Meals are prepared by a cooking crew that travels with them and nights are spent in sleeping bags at churches or schools.

Morovits-Feye said her sons have been to the Smoky Mountains, the underground mall in Atlanta, coastal beaches, Graceland, the Martin Luther King Jr. museum, etc.

“They come back realizing they have a lot to be grateful for, too,” she added.

In addition to this first-ever art show, the Eastman UMC holds a pancake supper, softball tournament and Blessed Brew after church, in order to raise funds for their annual youth mission trips. The cost is $500 per kid and these fundraisers usually help out enough that they don’t have to pay anything toward such a rare opportunity.

For more information or to provide a donation, contact Tracy Morovits-Feye at 412-5046 or morovittr@pdc.k12.wi.us.

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