About Catherine Slight

Catherine Slight

Hi! Catherine here!

I was born in Fisherrow, a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland, about 8 miles south of our capital city, Edinburgh where I now live.

Visuals and storytelling

My father was a fisherman and I remember as a three-year-old walking with him along the beach and being fascinated by the blues of a ridge of mussel shells. As a child I loved colour and would happily make different coloured pencil marks on paper. Later, the first thing I ever tried to draw was a boat.

I really enjoyed when my father told me stories. He had great imagination and a wonderful sense of humour.

One of my earliest memories was of my Granny taking me to a church service where the life of Jesus was shown in black and white pictures by what was called ‘‘Magic Lantern” – a sort of primitive form of slide show.

I remember thinking, “I wish I had lived when Jesus was on earth. I would have loved him and would have treated him kindly – not like those bad people who were so horrible to him.”

This visualised presentation of the life of Christ greatly impressed me and later when I became a Christian I tried to use pictures to share the Gospel.

I was just turned 12 when I trusted Christ for salvation and committed my life to him. In my teens I’d draw even in my untutored way, to illustrate short stories I wrote. These were a help to share the gospel and Bible teaching in Sunday School and later as a full-time youth and children’s worker with The Faith Mission, an evangelistic society in the UK and Ireland.

I’m very thankful for the digital drawing and painting program Artrage which I find so helpful in my amateurish attempts to illustrate.

Challenges

I’m enjoying updating short stories I wrote and used at Children’s Summer Camps and Bible Holiday Weekends.

Now I am relishing my current challenge – to complete my contributions to this web site. It would make me so happy to think that with God’s help people all round the world can benefit from the stories and teaching that my friend Lin and I are gathering here on Free Ministry Resources.

Learning how to redraw and paint illustrations for those stories using the digital art program is still an ongoing challenge! The possibilities presented using digital art are so exciting!

I have faced many challenges in my life, but God has always been with me, to help and encourage, and sometimes to intervene in circumstances in remarkable ways.

Now I am relishing my current challenge – to complete my contributions to this web site. It would make me so happy to think that with God’s help people all round the world can benefit from the stories and teaching that my friend Lin and I are gathering here on Free Ministry Resources.

Some things change…

Having long ago reached pension age, the way that I work for God may have changed, but serving Jesus still fills me with joy.

Now I use a stylus and tablet, rather than watercolour paint and brushes.

I can sit at home and reach round the whole world on the internet, rather than travel, as I used to do in my work with the Faith Mission, a few thousand miles a year in the UK and Ireland.

The silent iPad keyboard replaces the clatter of the old Remington typewriter.

…And some things never change

Times and methods may change, but God is still the same. The message he wants the world to hear has never changed. And his call on my life, to send out that message and to be the person he wants me to be, is still as strong as ever. 

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