May 13, 2008
How to Introduce Visual Arts to Church
Posted by tsnipes under Faith | Tags: art church, art ministry, Cross Collaboration, design, draw, easter, good friday, graphic, Jesus, lent, paint, religion, talent |This was an excellent idea that a group in California implemented to introduce Visual Art as a ministry to their church.
It’s called The Cross Collaboration, and more than thirty people from Coast Hills Community Church made their own unique designs of the Cross for a Good Friday Service. Made of all sizes and materials, each cross tells the beauty and brokeness of Christ’s Cross from a unique and personal perspective. See it for yourself:
Share your thoughts and feedback. Do you have a Visual Arts ministry in your church?
May 15, 2008 at 11:07 p
This is really cool, thanks for sharing.
May 15, 2008 at 10:37 p
Great info! I do believe there is a place for visual art in chruch. Visit my site to check out ministry ideas.
June 14, 2008 at 8:57 p
i know i wrote to you in your email about this, but a church i went to in boston for a year and a half had an arts ministry. CTKboston.com i think is their website. Christ the King presbyterian it was, and a very young crowd and had hired a full time arts minister. We had art shows up all the time in our other main room where everything was, we had weekly arts bible studies and even once a month movie nights. we had yearly arts motivated worship shows with music, dance, live paintings or chalk drawings, drama and of course an art show up. Ed Killeen was the arts ministers name. His huge plan was to eventually get a house and transform it into a gallery/studio/teaching space and make it very community oriented. In a place like boston it’s very good to have community places b/c tons of people, especially teenagers, are drawn to places like he was proposing.
I think it’s definitely something needed in churches down here. Why should catholics have all the beautiful walls?
June 14, 2008 at 10:20 p
Hey Casey-
I couldn’t agree more!
I really believe that more will begin to come forth and I also believe that many from this online community will be involved.
I just found the CTKboston.org site and requested information on their Arts Night and Coffee House.
I’ll share my findings with our members.