A NEW REVISED ARTS MINISTRY VISION STATEMENT

(God has seen fit to clarify, sift and refine the vision and purposes of Prodigal Arts.  What follows is the result:)

Prodigal Arts is based in the understanding that creating is a gift of God; and that creating art as a response to that gift is an act of worship, is a calling, and is indeed an obedience to that call.

Through on-on-one, community, exhibitions, presentations, groups, conferences or interactive special events, Prodigal Arts seeks:

·         to foster the understanding that just as we do not have to justify ourselves to earn God’s grace, art is not required to justify itself in terms of its usefulness;

·         to foster the understanding that every person is not only gifted and called according to His purpose, but by God’s grace  there is life-transforming freedom in that gifting;

·         to further nurture and equip artist and non-artist alike, who have come to Christian faith, or renewed, deepened their faith in God, so that they may grow into and fulfill their callings and be a faithful presence in our communities;

·         to encourage, assist & equip others in developing locally meaningful arts ministries.

Prodigal Arts is an arts ministry which seeks to share the fullness and the freedom of the grace of God…

…to see the ordinary, the broken and the un-useful,

as remarkable, precious and redeemed.