T-shirt ART Project…CANCELLED… see comments below

~Melissa

We are going to host a fundraiser for AHE.  We will be selling some bags and t-shirts with a designed logo for the 2011-2012 school year.  To do this, we need your help!

T-shirt Art Project:

We will be accepting designs created from moms, kids, dads (grandparents, etc… ) from families that are currently homeschooling.

The design can be anything related to homeschooling, it doesn’t HAVE to be related to AHE.

The design should have a place for 2011-2012 dates on it somewhere, although it doesn’t need to be prominent.  *If not included in the design itself, it can be included in a tagline below the design such as “2011-2012 design by “Robbie”, homeschooler”.

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There will be no prize, as indicated earlier.  Please see comments below.  We simply are not able to come up with art ideas on our own and hope that out of kindness of your hearts, you would like to join us in trying to find an appropriate design.  The art project gives your kids something to work on, for art, but we never meant it to be a competition of a sort.

Deadline for submissions:  SEPTEMBER 29th, 2011

Submit your art to:  adventisthomeducator@gmail.com

Have FUN with this!!!  🙂

7 thoughts on “T-shirt ART Project…CANCELLED… see comments below”

  1. I was contacted regarding our ART Contest. There was concern that it brought in a competitive spirit among those participating. Funny thing, I had a little tweak in my heart regarding this very thing, but I brushed it aside thinking, well we do that in SS, instead of searching what that little tweak was trying to tell me. (None, of you do that, do you???)

    Well, I was confronted about my error and I began to study it out. There isn’t much directly as a specific quote referring to contests that I could find in my searching, but I did find that by offering prizes, I am creating a spirit of rivalry, one that I did not ever mean to create. It was never my intention to create distress or a spirit of competition. I only wanted you all to
    participate and have fun participating together! Sometimes it is fun to see everyone’s creative ideas. I think from now on, I will try to do ART projects or POETRY projects for those to be involved in, but not for the spirit of obtaining a prize. Not for the goal of winning the contest either, just one of participation. I will have to pray more about how to get artwork for things like t-shirts without calling on contests.

    Anyways, I decided to cancel the ART Contest all together, after much prayer. I tried altering it, as you can see above in the post (if you saw the earlier post, you’d see it better). But it still created a “winner” that would be selected for their design… so I am canceling it altogether.

    I apologize to anyone whom this may have offended. It was never my intention to do it against counsel, I was only trying to encourage participation… Now that I’ve studied it out… I will be praying for better ways to encourage participation.

    Sorry for the confusion and the lack of discernment on my part.

    Warmly,
    ~Melissa

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  2. Here is the quote that I studied out… I already understood the competition as in sports, but it hadn’t crossed my minds in regard to SS or in regards to education, as I see so often that we use the tools of contests/prizes to invigorate the children and get them to participate. But counsel tells us that this is wrong…

    “By request I spoke about thirty minutes, warning them against letting their Sabbath school degenerate into a mere mechanical routine. We should not seek to imitate Sunday schools, nor keep up the interest by offering prizes. The offering of rewards will create rivalry, envy, and jealousy; and some who are the most diligent and worthy will receive little credit. Scholars should not try to see how many verses they can learn and repeat; for this brings too great a strain upon the ambitious child, while the rest become discouraged.” {CSW 182.1}

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    1. Hello Melissa,

      my name is Yoselyn Parra, I just barely started homeschooling with my pre-school son. I was going through your comments here on the art contest I was wondering if you could tell me what book you found this quote on. What is the CSW stand for. I am bilingual and usually read all my spririt of prophecy and Bible in spanish so most of the time I do not know the book’s title in English therefore I do not know what the initials stand for. I would appreciate it if you could tell me what the titile of the book is.

      I also have a suggestion for you on the art contest. As a children’s coordinator in my church I wanted the families to experience some family time with their children therefore I ask them all to make a 3D model of the New Jerusalem. I did not want this to be a competition either and was advised by my sister in law of why not just make an art exposition of the works, sort of like a little art gallery. I suggest to you that you can do art projects and let all the individuals send or upload their paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc to the website and have an art gallery where we can all see our children’s work and comment. You can even classified by ages, mediums, etc. I remember how my art teacher in high school did this for us in our school website, she would upload all our art work for everyone to see.

      I hope this helps and thanks again for all your time in creating and keeping this website updated. God bless you.

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      1. CSW is the abbreviation for Counsels on Sabbath School Work. Thank you for your suggestion! I had thought of the same thing, just need to figure out the details. 🙂

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  3. I disagree with the reason this art contest was cancelled. There is nothing wrong with some healthy competition. In fact, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 says “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” So the bible encourages us to compete to do our best. So what if you don’t get the prize at the end? You get the reward of knowing you did your best.

    Besides, the reason for creating this “contest” was to find a design for the shirt when no one could come up with a good one. This was a great idea to encourage people to join together to come up with something that could be shared by many others.

    I hope that you are able to come up with a great design without this contest, but I’m sad that competition is the reason it was cancelled. How are we to grow if there is nothing to grow against?

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    1. Thank you for your thoughts. I did study this out as well. There is much to say about “running the race”, the contest against “good” and “evil”, and our basic walk with God is a contest. There are many that can take a contest with the warm spirit it was intended… for them to do their best and be satisfied in that. But for others, the spirit of the competition wins out, they do their best so that they will win and in losing they get discouraged and frustrated because their heart was not in the right place. While I could say it is not my place to worry about where other people are at, that they “should know” that we all do our best for “God”, not for winning a prize, I am still by brother’s keeper. The story of Cain and Able and others… we are to worry about the spiritual condition of others around us. We are not to put obstacles in their ways, if we can help it, if we are aware of it, etc. So, that sort of finalized it for me.

      While I never intended anything wrong and I know God knows what I was hoping for in my heart… I cannot deny that competition can create a sense of rivalry, a sense of wanting to do better than others just because I’m full of pride and want others to know I did better. After all, I WAS that way when I was younger. I got good grades, not always because I enjoyed it, but because then no one could talk bad of me, so my parents would pat me on the back, while I listened to them criticize my siblings… (imagine a smug look of content on my face). My parents did not teach me about doing my best “for God”, because in their own selfishness, they wanted me to do my best so they could boast about “their” child. Not all of us are at the same places in our walk with Christ, and because of that, it is important to follow counsel that is given to prevent us from being a stumbling block to others.

      “So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.” Romans 14:12,13

      Thanks for sharing! I appreciate knowing that the original post was not taken in offense by all. 🙂
      Warmly, ~Melissa

      P.S. … I am praying that God will lead us to something better for He knows a thousand ways to answer our pleas for help!

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  4. I think you`ve made the right decision…especially because you are feeling conviction by God regarding the whole thing. You are totally right that some can become totally wrapped up in the competition and let it overtake them. The first time I attended a volleyball night with our church when we first became Christians, I was totally blown away by the spirit and attitude of many of the leaders of the church. Competition in most cases brings out the worst in people! It fires up the old man of sin and that selfish, proud spirit. I think your motive for having the contest in the first place is a great one and it would have been fun.

    May God bless you as you seek to serve Him and assist the rest of us homeschoolers in our journey.

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