First Presbyterian Church holds a Pysanky in Elkhart

ELKHART, Ind. -- First Presbyterian Church in Elkhart saw members of the community come participate in another round of 'Pysanky', or Ukrainian egg decoration.

This year marks year four of the event at the church, which also takes the time to donate to humanitarian aid for Ukraine.

"We invite people from the church and from the community to come in and learn the ancient art of pysanky, which is a Ukrainian egg decorating. It's done with a stylist called the kiski that is heated up and then dropped into the beeswax, and it soaks up the beeswax, and then with the beeswax in the kiski. Then we write on a raw egg. After we've written some on the egg, then we take it into the dying room and put it in its first color, usually yellow, and then we come back and write some more. And it goes through a series of writings and dyeing's until it is this beautiful, finished product. We take the wax off that we've put on it, and it's, it's just a gorgeous egg," stated Pastor of First Presbyterian Church Sally Wicks.

Pysanky can be traced all the way back to 1300 B.C., and has stayed strong in Ukrainian tradition since.