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our spark & start  

As a teen, I sang around campfires, heard the likes of Francis Schaeffer, and read Narnia on Waikiki Beach. These sparked a desire to fully integrate my art with my life in Christ.​

Lorenda Harder

Faith Arts Creator

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In 2018, Lorenda and a fellow artist friend co-founded a Niagara-based meeting place to nurture a handful of like-minded poets, painters, writers, actors, and one photographer where they sought to make personal connections between their faith and art.

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Re-envisioning as an inter-church group in 2022, Lorenda and her team launched Faith Arts to encourage start ups of small local and virtual meet-ups, exhibits, and performances.

 

The following year, the world network map was set up for small in-person groups (2+) to begin sprouting up anywhere and for established arts-focused ministries to add themselves to the directory.

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Future plans include adding resources for Christian leaders to more easily inculcate the arts into their individual ministries.    ​

Faith Arts Spark and Start

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

C.S.
Lewis

- Matt Heard

Founder of Thrive

 said to FAITH ARTS

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You're doing a beautiful and significant work.​​​​

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- Francis Schaeffer -

Theologian and Philospher

 

The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.​​​​

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Lorenda had the privilege of meeting artist and speaker Makoto Fujimura in 2023 where he personally affirmed our Faith Arts ministry concept. And in his book Culture Care encourages us to "turn ideas and experiences into imaginative worlds for sheer enjoyment and to expand the scope of our empathy.​​

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