This organization was founded by Gail Cavanaugh. The Welcome Mat is a shelter for homeless and battered women and their children. My goal is to help the women take control of their lives and give them training and education for jobs and help with maintaining a household and raising their children. Classes available through the Wisdom Institute, BibIe Study and prayer groups available. Women are en
couraged to develop their talents. .Welcome Mat is a ministry of the True Vine Church.. Here are my qualifications:
When I was a child, I received instruction in drawing and painting from my father and uncle. My father was an artist - he used to paint landscapes on bathroom tile. He was very creative. My uncle created display ads for the department stores downtown after he graduated from RISD. He then became an art teacher in Warwick, Daniel Walker, who is now deceased. He used to bring me paint, paper, and canvases when he visitied. I then took classes at the museums in the towns that I lived in after graduating from college. In my senior year, an art teacher told me I had talent. I worked with oils, acrylics, and pastels. I have done pastel portraits. I lived with him and my aunt fr one year in the late '90's and received instruction from him on watercolor painting. My mother enrolled me in sewing classes when I was eight years old, taught me how to cook, knit, crochet, and cross stitch. My mother was the first in the family to learn how to use a computer. I did a lot of babysitting and used the money to make clothes for myself. I took piano lessons at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut and I teach piano. I was a live-in supervisor at a homeless shelter for women for one year in Rhode Island. I made clothes for the women and their daughters. I taught Bible studies at nursing homes. I visited the elderly in nursing homes and read the Bible to them.
