If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past?Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and manual for unleashing creativity in your congregation so you can connect with the more visual, aural, participatory and expressive generation that is rising up within the church today.In this handbook you'll find clear direction for: - Mobilizing and managing artists and other creatives in your congregation - Establishing structures and parameters for arts ministry - Leading and supporting staff and church members in creative changes - Enhancing the worship service - Adding creative elements to your sermons - Engaging the broader community Activate your church in every avenue of worship with this practical guide for arts ministry.

Scott McElroy is an author, speaker, arts advocate, voiceover artist and visual artist. He is the author of Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity and the director of the New Renaissance Art Movement, which hosts the Creative Church Conferences in Boise, Idaho, and Indianapolis, Indiana. He also serves as Director of Arts at the Vineyard Church, Indianapolis, as well as with the Vineyard Arts Community, USA. Scott is a visual and voiceover artist and narrated the Animal Planet TV series Wildlife Journal from 2004 to 2007. He speaks and leads seminars nationally on the arts in the church, spiritual formation for the artist, learning to hear God's voice and awakening the creativity of God that lives in every person.

Mobilizing and managing artists and other creatives in your congregationEstablishing structures and parameters for arts ministryLeading and supporting staff and church members in creative changesEnhancing the worship serviceAdding creative elements to your sermonsEngaging the broader community