A Review of "Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach their Kingdom Goals"

Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach their Kingdom Goals is a recently-published manual "designed to guide an individual or group into a local community’s efforts at integrating its arts with the values and purposes of God’s kingdom."  It is the manual in the pair of books that comprise the "Worship and Mission for the Global Church: an Ethnodoxology Handbook & Manual, or "handual."

If you'd like to read an informative review of the manual, check out this one by Gunnhild A. Bremer, a worker with SIL in East Africa. He gives a good overview of the book, along with an analysis of each of the book's seven sections.  At the end of the review he gives some reasons why the manual would be helpful for a Scripture Engagement worker.

Arts in Mission 2011 Conference Video

Last month I traveled to Hertfordshire, U.K., to attend the Arts in Mission 2011: Training for Cross-Cultural Ministry conference at All Nations Christian College (see my post here).  Since that post, both a three-minute and six-minute video synopsis of the conference was posted online.  Please check out the longer video below in order to get a better understanding of the conference's purpose, and an overview of the manual which we explored while there (it's due to be published in the fall of 2012).

A Busy September!

I've been back at home for about a week, after having been out out of town for two weeks in September.  I wanted to give a report on what I've been doing, since all of it related to arts and missions.