ParrotGallery - Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster

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Pastors:
Chad Martin
Director of Children & Youth:
Elizabeth Brubaker-Weida

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First Service: 8:30 AM
Parrot Cafe: 9:45 AM
Christian Ed: 10 AM
Second Service: 11 AM

Community Mennonite
Church of Lancaster
328 West Orange St.
Lancaster, PA 17604

717-392-7567

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Parrot Gallery

Parrot Gallery is a project of artists and musicians worshiping at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster. Art exhibits are open for downtown Lancaster First Fridays, and regular gallery talks are scheduled with each featured artist.

About the Show

Artist and CMCL attender, Naomi Paine has been a mail carrier in the Lancaster area since 2007.

Pounding the pavement gives her much time to ponder themes found in her exhibit, “ORIGINS: Moving Toward Home.” She writes, “In recent years, I’ve found myself on a quest to discover more about my origins, both human and divine. I want to know who I am, where I come from, and where I am going. My 30-day retreat at Herrbrook Farm Retreat in 2003 was a watershed for me in this regard. The artwork that came out of this transformative experience is a window on some of my discoveries.”

Naomi’s exhibit includes poetry, paintings and sculptures created during and following that retreat.

About the Artist

Naomi Paine, a 1987 Messiah College art graduate who has been attending CMCL the past year, will be the featured Parrot Gallery artist for February and March. Her opening reception will be on First Friday, February 5, 5:30–8:30 p.m. Naomi is currently working on a master’s degree in holistic spirituality at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, while she continues her full-time work with the US Postal Service as a mail carrier in the Lancaster area.

She spent 17 years, first in short-term missions and then in administration, with Eastern Mennonite Missions. In 2005, ready for change, she worked a few years in accounts payable at an electrical contracting company, before she was hired in 2007 as a mail carrier.

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