Responses July 28-31

1) Live my lief (as written)
2) Stay sober one day at a time
       Response: you can do it if I can <3
3) Go to South Africa with my family
4) Trust
5) Forgive and heal
6) Ride in a hot air balloon
7) Forgive and heal
8) Be friends
       Added by someone else: "Again"
9) Love like God
10) Get married
11) Be a good father
12) End racism/biogtry
13) Go to Greece
14) Surrender
15) Sink Monsanto
16) Create a lasting piece of art
17) Have 3 pet dogs at one time
18) I want to visit Haifa
19) Hold grand babies
20) Give peace a chance
21) No GMO's
22) Sing to Jesus
23) Fall in love and stay in love
24) Be happy
25) Have my family together
26) Wear a kilt
27) Go back to Rwanda
28) Go back to England
29) Discover more amazing places with my girls
30) Happy Bday Laura
31) Pet a lion
32) Meet Osama Bin Laden
33) See a share your ground law
34) Complete our family and grow joyfully old together in Christ
35) I have to be happy
36) Meet my grandkids
37) Be a mom

Artist Statement for the Logo

Meaning of the Logo

Wanting the Before I Die wall in Kettering to be a bit different, we opted not to use the pre-packaged stencils that the original creator of the wall used and now sells. Instead, we decided to use a design created by Adam Cassidy, a member of Christ Church, who recently graduated from Miami University with his degree in Graphic Design. Adam's designs have been used in other Student Ministry projects including a mural, t-shirts, and other logos. He is very talented and currently in sunny Florida working as a graphic design intern for "the Mouse" at Disney World. 

Here is the artist statement for the logo: 

"The 'Before I Die' logo is primarily a typographic mark, using different typefaces to spell out the name of the project inside of a speech bubble. I decided that the speech bubble was an appropriate concept for this logo because sometimes it's not enough to just think about the list of things we want to do before we die. In order to actually complete that list, we have to declare them and say them out loud. We have to share them with other people. It's when we start to share these things with others that they begin to become real. That list of items becomes a promise to ourselves, and we have a better chance of actually doing those things if others are holding us accountable."