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Laundry Love Montage shown at Newsong during worship.
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Recently we did away with the series model for Newsong and moved to building a Newsong Culture. This year, Newsong will be be focusing on a core vision of “Unleashing Beauty” which we will be officially launching on October 4 and with the Unleashing Beauty Conference on October 10.

“Unleashing Beauty” is justice, loving the outsider and radical sacrifice.

In Isaiah 58, the word “glory” in Hebrew incorporates this understanding of beauty. The Bible says that if you do these things (i.e., do justice, welcome the poor into your home, sacrifice radically not just out of excess but out of your own need), then the Beauty of God will be Unleashed on the Earth. Have you ever met someone who did such an amazing act of generosity that it took your breath away? It’s revolutionary!

Who is Unleashing Beauty for?

This event is designed for church, business, non-profit leaders to feel empowered to change their local, global, and online communities in the midst of this economic crisis.

This one-day leadership event is open to any leader in the OC/LA area and those who desire to join us online at: http://global.newsong.net (Yes, it will be streamed live!).

What are the hopes for Unleashing Beauty?

* Refresh, inspire, and connect leaders during these turbulent times.
* Create opportunities for leaders to re-invent and innovate their leadership.
* Develop compassion/justice opportunities to become tangible expressions of God’s love for the world.
* Provide opportunities for leaders that are jobless to network with each other.

Dave Gibbons of Newsong and Erwin McManus of Mosaic will be there as well as many others who are leading the way in Unleashing Beauty. You will get to meet and engage with those that are already living out Isaiah 58.

There is no excuse for not being there. It is free and will be streaming live online.

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Newsong has recently opened up a new site in Santa Ana. It’s called 511: Santa Ana’s Creative Space. It used to be a old mechanics garage, which later was renovated into a property development company, which now is the space where Artists from the community come and gather. Awesome.

This Monday, the Artisans gathering will be held there. I truly believe that this site will be a launching ground for a movement of the Artisans. The Artisans will be called and become the prophets of this generation.

Check out Urban Arts Outreach who are the Artisan Warriors of Santa Ana.

Urban Arts Outreach – A diverse multi-church fellowship of artists practicing the elements of Hip-hop Culture (Breaking, Deejaying, Emceeing, and Writing) in the worship and purposes of our savior, Jesus Christ.

What Are Our Goals?
Uplift local and global urban art communities by promoting reconciliation, encouraging and empowering servant leaders, help local means assist the poor, care for people’s health, and educate the next generation. We exist to bridge the current gap between culture and church, art and purpose–to speak hope to lives no matter who they are or where they’re from.

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Today, in my time of silence and solitude, I came upon Psalm 104. And it blew my mind. So I responded by painting. I just starting creating without really thinking. I expressed it in the rawest form.

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Psalm 104

¹ Let all that I am praise the Lord.

O Lord my God, how great you are!
You are robed with honor and majesty.
² You are dressed in a robe of light.
You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
³ you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariot;
you ride upon the wings of the wind.
⁴ The winds are your messengers;
flames of fire are your servants.^[a]

⁵ You placed the world on its foundation
so it would never be moved.
⁶ You clothed the earth with floods of water,
water that covered even the mountains.
⁷ At your command, the water fled;
at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
⁸ Mountains rose and valleys sank
to the levels you decreed.
⁹ Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,
so they would never again cover the earth.

¹⁰ You make springs pour water into the ravines,
so streams gush down from the mountains.
¹¹ They provide water for all the animals,
and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² The birds nest beside the streams
and sing among the branches of the trees.
¹³ You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home,
and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
¹⁴ You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—
¹⁵ wine to make them glad,
olive oil to soothe their skin,
and bread to give them strength.
¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are well cared for—
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
¹⁷ There the birds make their nests,
and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.
¹⁸ High in the mountains live the wild goats,
and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.^[b]

¹⁹ You made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to set.
²⁰ You send the darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals prowl about.
²¹ Then the young lions roar for their prey,
stalking the food provided by God.
²² At dawn they slink back
into their dens to rest.
²³ Then people go off to their work,
where they labor until evening.

²⁴ O Lord, what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵ Here is the ocean, vast and wide,
teeming with life of every kind,
both large and small.
²⁶ See the ships sailing along,
and Leviathan,^[c] which you made to play in the sea.

²⁷ They all depend on you
to give them food as they need it.
²⁸ When you supply it, they gather it.
You open your hand to feed them,
and they are richly satisfied.
²⁹ But if you turn away from them, they panic.
When you take away their breath,
they die and turn again to dust.
³⁰ When you give them your breath,^[d] life is created,
and you renew the face of the earth.

³¹ May the glory of the Lord continue forever!
The Lord takes pleasure in all he has made!
³² The earth trembles at his glance;
the mountains smoke at his touch.

³³ I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath!
³⁴ May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵ Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;
let the wicked disappear forever.

Let all that I am praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord!

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