United Church News invites you to submit your works of art that illustrate next issue's focus: welcoming the exile, inspired by Matthew's retelling of the Nativity.

Visual arts — photos, images of paintings or sculpture, and videos — should be submitted to http://www.flickr.com and tagged with the keyword ucnews1208. (Limited-use flickr accounts are free.) 

Please email short stories, poetry and other media links to newsroom@ucc.org with ucnews1208 in the subject line.  Postal mail entries can be sent to the United Church News offices in Cleveland.

A selection of submitted work will be published in the December|January issue and/or online. Please limit submission to two entries per person.