Painting depicting hunger and misery by Haitian artist Jacques Chéry
Painting depicting hunger and misery by Haitian artist Jacques Chéry – From https://www.misereor.de/fileadmin/publikationen/publikation-die-misereor-hungertuecher-begleitheft-ausstellung.pdf
Misereor – Hunger Cloth
This creation of the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry belongs to Maple Grove United Church. It will be the inspiration for a series of sermons exploring who Christ is for our world today. Join us over the next several weeks to reflect on the intersection of scripture, art and your own life.

Blessings, Morar

April 9: Palm / Passion Sunday;
Rev. Dr. Morar Murray-Hayes
Jesus Crucified, On the Tree of Life
Crucifixion / Tree of Life
April 2: Blessed Assurance
The banquet of the disciples
“I Come to the Garden Alone”
sung by a former member of Maple Grove’s Koinonia and Teen Choirs
March 19: Jesus cleansing the temple
Jesus cleansing the Temple
March 12: Misereor: The Hunger Cloth Part 6: People climbing out of the water
People being rescued from the water
A portion of a painting
by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry
which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.
March 5: Misereor: The Hunger Cloth Part 5: Adam and Eve, creation
Adam & Eve in the Garden
A portion of a painting
by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry
which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.

February 5. “The fourth in a series of sermons based on Misereor: The Hunger Cloth – Responses to Oppression: A Theology of War? A Theology of Peace?”

a portion of a painting by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.
a portion of a painting by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.

January 29, “Keeping us on the Straight and Narrow”

a portion of a painting by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.
a portion of a painting by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.

January 22, “Caring for our World”

a portion of a painting by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.
a portion of a painting by the Haitian artist Jacques-Richard Chéry which belongs to Maple Grove United Church.

January 15, “Jesus in the lifeboat on the ocean that is our lives.”

A portion of a painting of people on a boat in a rough sea
The portion of the painting discussed Sunday, January 15

Wide, wide as the ocean –

sung by a former member of Maple Grove’s Koinonia and Teen Choirs

One Response

  1. Thank you for the information of hunger misereor painting. I have a copy of this beautiful painting. It has always fascinated me and now I know a little bit about it.

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