Lausanne World Pulse – Perspectives Articles – Prepare the Way—Remove the Stones
StoneWorks
StoneWorks is a catalyst to empower artists—and the arts—as a transformational voice in the Church and the culture.
Mission: Forming artists to reform culture
Spheres:
- Church. Educate the Church to embrace a biblically-based understanding and practice of the arts.
- Marketplace. Encourage spiritual, artistic, and worldview excellence that is culturally transformational.
- Academy. Establish witnessing communities of art students and faculty on university campuses. This will require looking at new models and paradigms.
- Missions. Train mission organizations to understand the role of the imagination in discipling nations. Every nation in the world lives by a story and affirms and passes on their story through the arts (music, stories, language, dance, theatre, etc.). The importance of the arts in mission must be recognized and affirmed.
Partnership Values:
- Common vision
- Sustained relationship
- Mutual empowerment of vision
- Shared resources
Three-fold Structure:
- Summits are where we generate ideas for strategic initiatives and bring together key people to talk and share ideas that can be formulated into strategic initiatives. There is a great need to create symbols that have meaning for the culture.
- Institutes are, in essence, discipleship and worldview mentoring programs.
- Initiatives are partnerships in culture-shaping projects and program development.
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Colin Harbinson has been involved in the arts and missions in over sixty nations. He is international director of StoneWorks, a global arts partnership for cultural reformation and the recovery of the imagination in the life and mission of the Church. Harbinson is founder and president of the International Festival of the Arts and the Lausanne Senior Associate for the Arts. |