Arts for a Better Future (ABF) is a one-week workshop that trains participants to spark local, Scripture-infused creativity that moves communities toward the kingdom of God. The training content follows the 7-step process contained in Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals (2013, William Carey Library). Participants will learn to apply this flexible model to an existing cultural context. They then develop plans to engage these principles for arts in mission with a community in which they work. The workshop is drenched in warm, artistic personal interaction with other people and God. ABF can be a help to missionaries with artistic gifts, cross-cultural ministry strategic planners, pastors, worship leaders, people interested in developing multicultural worship, and artists of all kinds. Choose the site closest to you:
*** Dallas, TX – June 3-8, 2013 (Not: Registration ends May 15! Act soon!) – see
https://sites.google.com/site/artsforabetterfuture/
*** England – July 7-12, 2013 – see
http://www.allnations.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=179
for info and see the video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gea1yhwSy_s
If you have questions after looking at the websites above, write to
arts4abetterfuture@gmail.com.
Sponsored by the International Council of Ethnodoxologists –
and its partners in Dallas and the UK.
I will just add that this non-credit short course teaches the concentrated essence of the World Arts program at GIAL here in Texas, so if you are considering doing graduate studies in the arts for cross-cultural service, considering taking this short course to just see if this is what you really want. Thanks!