Breaking down barriers

Lifestyle/Technology | Gifted Hands volunteers use art to share God’s love with those suffering from the “leprosy of modern times” | Susan Olasky

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NEW YORK—Rivington House, a hulking red brick structure built in 1898 as an elementary school, is America's largest HIV/AIDS residential healthcare facility. On Monday evenings volunteers from Gifted Hands, a faith-based therapeutic arts program, lead art classes as part of the shelter's regular game night in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Working AIDS patients, the elderly, teen moms, and homeless men and women, they use art to break down barriers and to share God's love.

On one recent evening, Gifted Hands volunteers carrying shopping bags of craft materials and a handful of helium-filled balloons signed in at Rivington House's front desk. They showed their government-issued ID and headed up to the penthouse, where a large multipurpose room furnished with tables and chairs and a pool table awaited.

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October 24, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 21

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