Today is Sacramento's Big Day of Giving, also our final day of spring fundraising. There's a new vision God placed on my heart that I was waiting until our formal gala to announce - now that that's happened (and the response was positive, yay!) I can make it "Internet official."
In 2016, Royal Stage will be opening an art house.
Much like we've done with the performing arts for the past 5 years, we hope to do the same with visual/fine arts. The house will be modeled after the brilliant Art Besst in downtown Sacramento, only we will be incorporating the love of Christ into all we do.
Our goals so far:
- have 3 separate areas: dramatic play, visual art and "faith exploration," where kids can participate in hands-on faith based projects.
- have special weekly free days for area foster youth and low-income families.
- hold regular, free counseling sessions.
- exist as a community hub for moms to gather while children play, so we can build relationship and host events to make them feel like royal daughters of the King, too.
- run various visual art classes throughout the year.
Our leadership team is pretty jazzed about the idea of this house, which may or may not be an actual house. So far, I've always seen it as a house - a sanctuary, home away from home for our participants....but who knows where it will actually land! It's very exciting!
The last time I felt this passion and urgency on my heart about something is when we founded Royal Stage - and that turned out pretty well! God asked me to be silent and pray about the art house before announcing it, and now I'm excited that the word is out. Now I can get out of the way so He can work and make it a reality.
Supporting Royal Stage today is one of the best ways you can help. Please consider supporting Big Day of Giving. We need you!
https://bigdayofgiving.org/#npo/royal-stage-christian-performing-arts
And, after today I'm glad to be done fundraising for a bit so I can focus again on dreaming :)
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