Meet our Artists
Hymns and Hydrangeas - home décor with a message of hope - began in October of 2016 with Darlene Krueger’s desire to use her artistic talents to help raise money for missions. Church music and hymns of the faith were a passion that ran deep in her family as her grandmother directed church choirs for over 50 years. Darlene has been a calligrapher since her high school years and has a love for design as well as fabrics, sewing and gardening. For many years she has been friends with Pam Wyma as they both have kids at the same school. Pam worked for many years in an office and has returned to an early love of art, recently taking classes at the local DuPage Art League. She enjoys working in charcoal, pen and ink, water color, pastels and acrylics.
Darlene Krueger
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Pam Wyma
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Meet our Missionaries
Proceeds of our sales go support missions.
Panz and Nancy Alvarez
Panz and Nancy Alvarez train other believers in Asia to share God's Bible stories in an oral format. They simplify the stories so they are understandable, easy to remember, and shared in about three minutes. As these stories are told from one person to another, God's Word takes hold in the listeners' hearts until they, too, love to tell His stories.
Panz and Nancy's goal is to train people how to translate God's stories from the beginning of Creation to Christ's return into their own "heart" languages. Once these stories are in the many different languages of unreached peoples throughout Asia, house churches can grow and multiply into movements of "Bible Storying Churches."
As Psalm 78:4-6 sums up: "We will tell the next generation the wonders He has done. He commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, who would tell their children." Just consider that command covers five generations!
Panz and Nancy's goal is to train people how to translate God's stories from the beginning of Creation to Christ's return into their own "heart" languages. Once these stories are in the many different languages of unreached peoples throughout Asia, house churches can grow and multiply into movements of "Bible Storying Churches."
As Psalm 78:4-6 sums up: "We will tell the next generation the wonders He has done. He commanded our forefathers to teach their children, so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, who would tell their children." Just consider that command covers five generations!
Jen Underwood
Jen Underwood, her husband, Dave, and their four kids live in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. While Dave teaches at an inner-city charter high school, Jen works with a diverse group of churches on the West Side: helping children's teachers and others to tell God's story; creating written resources to facilitate Bible Telling; and coming alongside women in mentoring/discipleship relationships.
