ideas/visions/fanciful notions (2 of 2)

I have two more ideas…what to do, what to do :p

2. the internship idea

What if I used an established structure that provided time and a specific context (e.g. short term missions) to train musicians and worship leaders to write, lead worship, pray, and serve both the missionary community and the locational community in which they were living?  What if it became a place where artist’s lives and voices were freed from the bondage of sin, lies, and brokenness that constrict and constrain them, and they were able to been to artistically live, lead, and relate in freedom?

HYPOTHESIS: There is something we can learn about how to employ music for worship and reflection in the context of a mission trip that can’t be taught or experienced throughout the course of a school year.

3. the school idea

What if a multi-ethnic, cross-ethnic, reconciled, group of artists came together to form a school for artists to learn how to develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit, Torah, art, and people across ethnicities?  What if the school taught people to be worship leader artists – not just singers and musicians, but visual artists, performing artists, media artists…learning how to lead others toward Jesus with the art they create, and being personally transformed by the relationship they are cultivating with the Holy Spirit, Torah, and art?  And what if, in all of that, people learned how to be artistic and creative agents of reconciliation and peace (see eph2)?

In order for this to happen, the group of pioneering teachers would have to have a substantial level of relationship with sufficient trust, as well as a working theology and meaningful experiences associated with art, ethnicity, justice, and reconciliation.