Worship Arts
We believe that beauty, aesthetics, and the creative process are essential to discipleship and evangelism and should play an essential role in the lives of believers individually and collectively, as they have for thousands of years.
We pray that the Lord is ministered to, the church is built up, and the world tastes and sees the glory and goodness of God through the full creative expression of our body.
Sunday Worship Arts
On Sundays, we gather together again as a church family to turn our whole attention—body, mind, and heart—collectively to the Lord in worship, to minister to and receive from Him, and to then be sent out to worship God in every area of life throughout the week.
In terms of Worship Arts, we tend to focus primarily on the art-form of music on Sunday mornings. At a morning service, we aim to musically worship in a variety of styles and traditions—valuing how the Spirit has moved throughout the ages as well as in different backgrounds, church traditions, and cultures. We seek to make beautiful, quality music that is theologically rich in order to honor and express the beauty of the Chief Musician Himself.
We are also expanding the presence of other art forms within and around our Sunday morning services, including: seasonal visual art/art galleries on our sanctuary walls, live artwork being done during services, video and sound technicians creating beauty for our eyes and ears in person and on our livestream, and beauty in our church/farm/park property.
Other Worship Arts Opportunities
We value the arts in spaces beyond Sunday services and value the cultivation of artists and their crafts. We have many particularly gifted artists [musicians, sculptors, dancers, potters, poets, chefs, painters, weavers, etc…] in our church who we seek to encourage and equip. Currently, we have a growing group of artists beginning to gather for community, encouragement and equipping in their making.
We also are seeking to provide increasingly more opportunities for artists to offer their gifts back to the Lord by meaningfully participating in church gatherings and events such as…
Harvest Festival, Duke’s Pub Christmas Outreach, Christmas Eve services, our annual Leadership Gala, Holy Week Stations of the Cross, Easter Vigil Service, Rogation Day, Feast Day Services, Connections nights, craft fairs, art shows, Annual Meeting,
Worship Arts Photo Gallery
Feast Day for the Virgin Mary - Summer 2022
Christmas Eve outreach music at a local pub!
Easter Vigil painting - Spring 2022
Easter Vigil Dance Team - Spring 2022
Choir from our East African service - Summer 2023
Christmas Eve choir - December 2022
Kids dance at Easter Vigil - Spring 2022
Palm Sunday and sanctuary art - Spring 2023
Stations of the Cross art - Spring 2023
Rogation Sunday - Spring 2022
Easter Vigil Dance Team - Spring 2023
Rogation Day - Spring 2023
Easter Sunday flowers - Spring 2022
Concert showcase - Spring 2021
Stations of the Cross art by Gia Lineberry - Spring 2023
Stations of the Cross art by Martha Williams - Spring 2023
Stations of the Cross art by Elisa Phillips - Spring 2023
Christmas Eve - December 2021
East African service choir at consecration service - Fall 2021
Easter Vigil interactive fabric team - Spring 2023
Easter art display by David Stanley - Spring 2023
Sanctuary art print by Henry Munyaneza - Spring 2023
If you’re an artist or a “creative,” our Worship Arts Director, Amelia, would love to connect with you!
As we believe the Lord has given gifts to each person he has created, we know there are many artists among us! We want to be a people who offer up our gifts back to the Lord, and we see lots of opportunity to do so in worship through music, dance, song, poetry, painting, weaving, or any other art-form you might think of. If you’re interested in getting involved, you can email Amelia below to connect and explore how you could get plugged in with Worship Arts at Redeemer!
Amelia Blanchard
Worship Arts Director
Resources
Spotify Playlists
We create playlists of songs for different seasons throughout the church calendar (Advent, Lent, etc.), and also for each Sunday morning music set. Worship along with us here!
Worship Arts Newsletter
Four times a year we put out a Worship Arts Newsletter with arts opportunities, liturgical resources, devotionals, and more for you to enjoy and be equipped by! Check out our Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany newsletter here!
“Lift Up Our Hearts” Article
How are we as Christians to think about engaging our hearts in worship? Check out these musings on the heart in terms of musical worship in particular here.