Bless Mother with a Card from Artingle

This is one of several beautiful images for your Mothers Day cards
which are available at Mark Turner's online shop "Artingle".
Click on the image to go there.

Four beautiful cards to bless the mothers in your life are available at Mark Turner's new online shop "Artingle". These are the first of a large collection of cards which Mark is publishing to encourage quality, personal communication between friends and family.
The visuals are carefully selected for their inspiration and ability to evoke spiritual contemplation. Available both in large and small sizes, they are blank cards so you can write your own personal message inside. To further personalize them you are sent the digital file of the card by e-mail which you then print yourself as many times as you like on 8 ½ x 11 sheets. One is arranged to be folded once for a greeting card. Another is arranged to be folded twice for a note card.
The selection includes a black and white drawing of a bouquet backed by a pastoral landscape which you can personalize by hand coloring in your own style. Beautiful, impressionistic roses adorn two others and the fourth features a peaceful photo of lotuses in a pond.
You can visit the Artingle shop at http://artingle.etsy.com . Your purchases support the Turners' ministry and extend it into the lives of your own circles.

News from the Turners

We have been meeting lots of new people and expanding our concepts of ministry.

Through attending seminars, voracious reading and personal coaching our financial education has been accelerated to meet the economic crisis effecting Horizon Gate and our constituency. The shape of the economy has forced us out of industrial age thinking and fully into the information age. In this age it is what you know that is most valuable, not social, or professional position and not material possessions.

We can see the creativity of business and its capacity to carry ministry to the masses. We are learning more skills in using the tools of the Internet, telephone and video to reach higher numbers of people. The size of our vision is larger because we can see a viable business structure and multiple streams of potential income to make it possible.

As Jesus was focused on his mission and built the community which would carry it out, we are reaching out to new groups of people more aggressively and with renewed conviction. New relationships with artists have resulted from exhibiting at concerts and conventions, as well as increasing conversations about individual financial challenges. Our vision is to develop the community of artists and arts supporters to be the ministering body of Horizon Gate.

New ideas are forming which will both increase material support for artists and get their work out ministering to the masses. We are in the process of creating a series of short audio programs based on the “Realize Your Vision!” webinar. These will be broadcast on blogtalkradio.com. Keep an eye out for a unique business providing greeting cards you can print and do your own handwork on. We are writing more articles for Internet news. Video e-mails are now a part of our tool kit.

Developing people as members of Christ's Community is the focus of both the internal management and the public outreach of Horizon Gate products and services.

Walking by faith is essential to expansion. Faith opens our eyes to opportunities and needs when we may be more inclined to shut down operations, “economize” and guard the little we have. But the gut reaction to close down is not actually “self-protection” as much as resigning ourselves to death. In business a decline in revenue signals a need to increase communications and enter the places where others are not meeting the need. Certainly this is the call of Christ to us now and God is regenerating our imaginations to see the opportunities to generate life.