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Founded in 1991 and an inspiration to
Women worldwide. Heartbeats religious
gifts catalog contains handcrafted lacquer
boxes, hand carved Madonnas from Haiti
and beautiful handmade paper products to
name just a few. Unique gift cards,
notepads and personalized blessings can
be framed at your request.
Growing from a four-page
flyer that included the work of three HM
Sisters to a full color catalog 88 pages
long, the catalog now includes
inspirational gifts by more than 50
artists from around the world. Native
Americans from the Southwest, groups of
inner city women in Erie (PA), Chicago
(IL), Cedar Rapids (IA), Durham (NC) and
Denver (CO) as well as groups from The
Philippines, Mexico, El Salvador,
Bolivia, Botswana, Armenia, Israel,
Hungary, Pakistan and Ukraine have their
artworks available. There are also 37
American women artists who participate
including 13 Humility of Mary Sisters.
Heartbeats - a ministry of the Sisters
of the Humility of Mary – offers a
unique networking opportunity for women,
minority and developing world artists to
market their works to the world.
Heartbeats was created
by Sr. Peg Cessna, HM and Sr. Josie
Chrosniak, HM to help poor and
underemployed artists throughout the
world support their families by
providing much needed money from the
sale of their work. Believing the world
is changed one neighborhood at a time,
Heartbeats provides a supportive program
through networking, marketing and
financial support to enable the artists,
especially minority and developing world
artists, become financially stable.
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