faitharts
a community
- where faith meets the arts -
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
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.
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.
Future plans include adding resources for Christian leaders to more easily inculcate the arts into their individual ministries.
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
You're doing a beautiful and significant work.
Theologian and Philospher
The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
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.