The church that I regularly attend is Sacred Heart Parish, North Albury. I also go to St. Patrick's Parish Church sometimes on a Tuesday and/or Thursday - usually a Tuesday because shortly afterwards they have Benediction and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. I like St. Patrick's Church because it is one of the older style churches - the oldest in the Diocese of Wagga Wagga in fact - and the building itself has quite a rich history. Sacred Heart however is one of the newer types, not shaped like a cross when looking at an aerial-view, but I live across the road from which is why I have made it my most frequented parish.
Sacred Heart has a newsletter that is published once a month, or bi-monthly, maybe less frequently, I am not actually sure. The last issue for 2009, which was November, had a small advert in it notifying of a change to it, including a name change from "Our Special Heart" to "Heartbeat" and thus were seeking submissions from parishioners for a new logo/masthead design.
I jumped on board almost instantly, drawing up a few initial ideas in my sketch-pad, then transferring them into digital form using Adobe Illustrator. Once I had a few different designs up, I went to the parish offices to show Fran, the secretary. She was quite impressed with the designs I had drawn and the ones I showed her on my laptop, so I left the sketches with her an emailed the digital ones over so she could show Fr. Flanagan. This was back in December.
Yesterday, I received an email from Karen, the editor of the newsletter, saying that they had decided on one of my designs for the new-look publication "Heartbeat". I was surprised and instantly happy - I feel more a part of the parish family now that I have a piece of my work cemented in the life of the parish.
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