How Beautiful are the Feet
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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
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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
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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...

Rejoice! Remains True After 24 Years
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Rejoice! Remains True After 24 Years

“It was a prompting from the Lord. We wanted to expose people to the Christian arts, how they are legitimate and valuable while also being a form of worship.” Ginger Strickland began Rejoice! Dance Ministry in 1993 and used those words to describe its early stages. Thankfully, her words remain accurate in describing the ministry...