“Redemption” By: Bev Ellis
Bev Ellis, who planted Emmaus Church in Surrey, B.C., with her husband Dave, is an accomplished painter. She created this piece in response to watching The Passion and “soaking in the verses about Christ’s sacrifice.” The work was “heavily influenced by Isaiah’s account of Christ,” and Bev says she was “transfixed by every detail; that he was not especially handsome, that he was so brutally wounded, he wasn’t even recognizable as a man.”