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This picture was created using mostly acrylic paint with some supplemented mixed media. It emerged out from a prayerful meditation of Christ as both bread of life - broken to be share salvation with the world (valley hints of loaves), and a rock in a weary land (Isaiah 32:2). Even in life’s darker valley-of-the-shadow-of-death times, Christ is the One wanting to accompany us and show us a way out from under that which seeks to oppress us. The landscape of the image can look daunting and isolated, but there is a subtle imprint of Christ embedded in one rock hill reflecting His presence and the hopeful colors of the risen sun.

Elita lives with her husband and three sensitive, creative children. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Palmer Seminary, and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Maryland. She was trained as a Chaplain at John Hopkins Hospital and is an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church. She’s served in various types of pastoral care roles – in the New York, an underprivileged community of Baltimore City, as well as in Malawi, Africa. Elita believes in the value beyond measure of the inner child within each person, and of the importance of ministering to that child no matter how old one is. She is passionate about integrating creative arts with a holistic perspective to emotional and spiritual care...