From Student to Teacher By Kat Holmes “I’m not prepared.” “I don’t know enough.” “I’m not sure I’d be good at the teaching part.” These are three of the statements that plagued my 19-year old brain when asked if I might like to teach theatre. I was an assistant at the time to AFAAs’ previous...
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He Is With Us!
He Is With Us! By Diane Faison-McKinzie “Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!” (Ezekiel 18:31, ESV). This verse encourages us to make ourselves a new heart and a new spirit, and we do that by casting off our transgressions (sins),...
How Beautiful are the Feet
As a child, I fell in love with dancing. It is a love I still share but it is one God has knit together with a love for missions and evangelism. In the beginning, I wondered how dance could be used to bring about a true heart change cross-culturally, but God wasted no time in...
Creating a Godly Environment: A Teacher’s Perspective
Attending public school throughout my middle and high school years was truly a challenge that tested my faith daily. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend my afternoons at Arts Alive Fine Arts Studio, where I was able to study my passion of dance while fellowshipping with other believers. That studio was my...
Visual Art: Impacting the World Through Art
Stark white. Not a single mark has been made, and there’s unbelievable opportunity for what it could become. How it could end up. Every creator knows that you can’t simply look at a picture and recreate it. You have to work, erase, cover up, mix more paints, overlap, and do it all over again to...