The Collective | Live Your Dreams, Change the World

Theme for April at The Collective:  LIVE YOUR DREAMS, CHANGE THE WORLD.

 

It's your nature to be creative. You are creative. The companion to creativity are the dreams and desires that God plants in our heart. Those dreams and desires are there to help build His Kingdom (yes, we have a role in that) and bring glory to God.

•  What are those dreams and desires in your heart?
• Are you entering into them? If not, when?
• What keeps you from entering into them?
• Do you believe that those dreams and desires have the potential to change the world?

Holding onto those dreams and desires is like getting a present for your birthday and never opening it....

 

Come to The Collective on April 7, 6:30pm-8:30pm and we'll be diving into this rather large topic and it's our hope that you'll leave feeling encouraged (in courage!) to move out boldly in your dreams to be an agent of change for this broken and hurting world!

 

Bring your sketch book. Paper and colored pencils will be available for doodling and sketching. :) Which is always highly encouraged at The Collective!

 

LASTLY and most importantly - The Collective is for every single human who has been created in God's image. Yes, my friend, that includes you. (The Collective is not for "artists" only).

 

Got questions? Email deAnn and we hope to see you on Thursday, 4/7 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in the coffee bar at LWCC.

The Well | Passion, Promise, Presence

The Well is a self-guided sacred space prayer experience at Living Word Community Church. It's been up for one week and continues this week, concluding on Friday at 9pm. Above is the schedule, the times vary a bit each day.

It's a beautiful space taking us into the Easter Story - but it's a broader look at that famous event. Click here for a video tour of this installation. Prayer guides are available to enhance your experience. Bring your bible and plan to be at The Well for 60 minutes or more. It's not a space you'll want to rush through. You escape the rush of life and enter The Well.

The Road to Emmaus

We hope you can find some time this week to attend The Well. The next installation of The Well will be in this fall.

Be in joy -

deAnn Roe - Infused Arts Director

Recap of Feb at The Collective & Looking Ahead

A collection of creativity represented at February's gathering of The Collective.

What an incredible gathering of creatives of ALL genres at The Collective this month! It's amazing to see all the creative facets we have among us. So diverse, so beautiful. We had great discussion and teaching around how our creativity matters a LOT to God and His Kingdom. We did some collaborative art and some individual prayerful creative reflection. All in all - a fantastic evening! A dream come true! People waking up more and more to their identity in Christ and His amazing nature of creativity in us all.

Below are more images from our first gathering. The next one is Thursday, March 3rd from 6:30-8:30pm in the coffee bar of Living Word Community Church. March's theme is surrendering our creativity to the One who is the source of it all and the watching what He does with it!! We have a creative and mindful exercise in store and visual artist Deborah Nell will share a bit on her journey the God and surrendering her creativity. You will be blessed and inspired by her stories, no doubt!

Child care is provided but you need to register your little ones one week in advance.
Click here then in the drop down register menu, click Infused Arts.

If you are feeling a stirring in your soul for more creativity to be unleashed in your life, or want a biblical perspective on why our creativity matters so much to God, we invite you to The Collective. It's community. It's creativity. It's pressing into Father's heart for more of Him. It's so awesome... Hope to see you on Thursday, March 3rd!

deAnn Roe
director of Infused Arts



The Collective - Kingdom-minded Creatives

 

Creativity spans beyond fine arts.

God's creative nature is in you - how does it flow through you? 

 

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY

The Collective is a new Infused Arts community that will focus on our role as artists and creatives in God's Kingdom, have discussions around this and many other important topics. The first Thursday of EACH month is designed to encourage our creative journey, challenge it as well, and broaden our vision for how God wants to flow through us to touch this broken and searching world by our art, imagination, and creativity. The Collective is the FIRST Thursday of each month, beginning in February. Each month will have a different topic or theme. February is "Why Creativity Matters to God."

All genres of creativity are welcome!! For example; knitters, home chefs, fine artists, writers, poets, dancers, singer/song writers, musicians, graffiti and tattoo artists, hair stylists, photographers, digital artists, sculptures, wood-working, fiber art, sewing, drama... okay, I think you get the point. :)

Please join The Collective, a group of creatives hungry for more of the Lord and seeking first His Kingdom as it pertains to our art and creativity!

There is no fee for this gathering. Coffee will be on hand, indeed. See you February 4th at 6:30pm!

KidCare is provided but you must register your little ones a week before the event. From the pull down menu, click "Infused Arts" - here's the link to register.

Are you coming to The Collective on 2/4? Let me know!

Hope to see you there!
deAnn Roe

Childcare Available for Infused Arts


We are so very excited to be able to offer childcare for you on Thursdays for Infused Arts events. We hope this opens up the possibility for those of you with childcare needs to attend our spiritually formative arts communities:

• The Collective - the 1st Thursday of each month at 6:30pm in the coffee bar
• The Write Space - the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30pm in Rm 112
• The Studio & Open Studio - the 3rd and 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30pm in the coffee bar

Please register your little ones one week in advance to the event you plan to attend. Here's the link - from the drop down menu, choose, "Infused Arts." You will find some additional information on that page as well.

We hope to see you in February at Infused Arts!

Be in joy-
deAnn

Art Reception POSTPONED

Hello friends!!

Due to the pending storm and the impossibility to nail down when it may arrive, we've decided to postpone tomorrow night's art reception to Friday, 1/29, 6pm to 8pm. One artist participating comes from Reading and a few more from Lancaster and I know some of you plan to come and you drive from Baltimore and Harrisburg - I don't want to put any of you at risk should the snow begin to fall earlier than what's expected. 

I hope you are able to come enjoy a fantastic evening full of art and creativity next week!! Again here's the NEW date for the Art = Ministry Art reception:

Friday, January 29, from 6pm to 8pm at Living Word Community Church

Same awesomeness, different night!

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Be in joy and stay safe in the blizzard!

deAnn

www.infused-arts.com

Powerful Stories of How God Uses Art & Artists

The January/February exhibit, Art = Ministry is up and looking amazing. The stories are even more amazing! Click here to read a copy of The Heart Behind the Art booklet and prepare to be blown away by how God uses surrendered artists to minister to our broken and searching world. Below are a host of photos of the exhibit.

Reminder: The Art Reception is Friday, January 29, from 6pm to 8pm in the Common Grounds Gallery. It's going to be an evening jam-packed with creativity! There will even be art tables for you to explore your artistic abilities. And of course, you'll hear from the artists, there will be a live painting demo, and our friend, Ramon will be here to stylize your name into graffiti. This is a family friendly evening. Snacks and coffee will be provided too. Hope you can make it!