For Wildman, making art for the local church means knowing the people, identifying their needs & working to meet those needs creatively.
Building Healthy Creative Communities
Can You Be Healed From Past Trauma?
Suffering and issues of mental and physical health will always be a part of it until Jesus returns and creates all things new, and yet, God is actively recreating it right in front of our eyes. He offers healing to the blind and lame, brings peace to agitated souls, and offers the thirsty a drink of living water.
Creativity as Soul Care
Our work as artists connects us to a Creator, whose wonderful diversity in Creation created you and me, whose works are beautiful and precious to him who created us. We nurture our souls when we spend time in God’s word, learning who he is; when we create, reflecting his glory; and when we basque in nature, letting our creativity be inspired by the wondrous diversity of God.
Kintsugi People in a Fractured World
I believe that the Kintsugi art form has significant applications to those called to a vocation in music and worship arts, and to the church as a whole. We have the opportunity to live in a broken world as Kintsugi people.
Artists Need Theology
This Eastertide, let us recommit our vocations and creations to Him who saved and redeemed us with his broken body and shed blood. Let us study the Word, alone and with others, because what we believe shapes our songs, stories, and ourselves.
Fostering Collaboration
This is the third installment in a series of interviews with Homero Garcia, pastor of La Iglesia in Mundelein, Illinois, and Matthew Pelletier, one of the worship leaders there.
Cultivating the Arts in the Church
This is the second article in a series of interviews with Pastor Homero Garcia from La Iglesia in Mundelein, Illinois, and Matthew Pelletier, one of the worship leaders there. Our first conversation centered around the power of pastoral encouragement for artists in the church. In this installment, we’re discussing how to cultivate worship arts in the church.
The Power of a Pastor’s Encouragement
An interview with Pastor Homero Garcia and Matthew Pelletier about what it looks like at their church, La Iglesia in Mundelein, Illinois, to encourage artistic expressions of worship. Part 1 of 3.
