You Are Not Alone!

We hear you loud and clear. At the WCA, our job is to listen to your needs and understand your challenges. This summer, our awesome Emerging Media Intern, Mark Beebe, and I have been processing responses from Arts Leaders about ways we can help you in your ministry. You said that you are wrestling with a lack of resources. There just isn’t enough. You have too few volunteers, no time to brainstorm and implement your best ideas, too small a budget, and too many things to balance. We hope that the community you find here will help you know you are not alone and that it will help you navigate the amazing potential and heavy burdens of arts ministry in the church. Conferences and resources are invaluable, but there are other ways we can help each other as well. The ideas, advice, and encouragement we can offer each other year round can be a real support. So here’s a challenge for this community: Let’s help each other! Let’s start a dialogue right here in this space that makes a difference for someone right now! If you are facing a specific challenge – share it in the comments. What is your greatest burden? What issue do you wish you knew how to address? If you have advice or encouragement – share it. God may have given you the words that are desperately needed by a fellow leader who shares their concern in the comments. Our prayer is that you will find that God is closer than you think as you share your need or share your words of support or direction. Let the dialogue begin!