Portfolio Series: Jinji Bear
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The “Jinji Bear” paintings were created for humanitarian trips to Israel ( beginning in 2002). During the past six years, the Cargo of Care Brigades have distributed over 6000 teddy bears and beanie babies to children, recovering terror victims, and staff of hospitals and care centers throughout Israel. Brigades have served families in the Jordan River Valley near Beit She'an and completed service projects at a blind and low vision center, immigrant center, senior center, adolescent boarding home, preschool/nursery and the Peniel Fellowship in Tiberias. Each year delegates have donated blood for Magen David Adom. This year, in addition to giving out teddy bears, baby quilts and bridal decorations were given to Peniel Fellowship in Tiberias, over 1000 donated prizes for Bible memory activities to Arab Christian children in Nazareth and hundreds of baby items for Jewish mothers distributed by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. Delegates spent three days working at the Red Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center at Kibbutz Grofit in the Negev where they participated in groundskeeping, creating mud sculptures, painting designs on barrels used in the riding arena and painting a mural depicting the seven species of Israel. Privileged to have met with dignitaries, doctors and nurses, young soldiers, mothers and fathers and children, they have also sailed on the Sea of Galilee, walked on the walls of Jerusalem and bartered in the Arab market. They have cleaned houses, made simple home repairs, built an outdoor gazebo, done yard work and painted murals on the sides of buildings overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
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