Arts for the
Kingdom

EthnoArts Training for Everyone

Tbilisi, Georgia | 29 March - 3 April, 2026 | Languages: English, Русский | Registration CLOSED

Arts for the Kingdom is a 1-week intensive training event in the foundations of arts in cross-cultural ministry. Grounded in decades of real-life field experience and scholarly insights, this course equips God’s people with practical ministry tools.

Who is it for?

  • Field practitioners

  • Team Leaders

  • Pastors

  • Administrators

  • Artists

  • Non-Artists :)

  • Worship leaders

  • Local community members

What will I gain?

  • Practical tools for cross-cultural arts engagement

  • Proven approaches to become catalysts and co-creators for local, indigenous creativity

  • Inspiration, encouragement, and networking

  • How to use the EthnoArts Field Manual to help communities you know and care about draw on their artistic resources to respond to spiritual, social, and physical needs.

Book: Community Arts for God’s Purposes

Community Arts for God’s Purposes (provided for you onsite) highlights the CLAT (Creating Local Arts Together) method, a seven-step process that inspires artistic creativity and collaboration with local musicians, dancers, storytellers, actors, and visual artists. In this manual, the arts are treated as special kinds of communication systems, connected to specific times, places, and social contexts. As local communities use the creative gifts developed in their particular culture to worship God and engage with Scripture, lives are changed and communities flourish.”

The Venue

Hotel Ginger | Tbilisi, Georgia

Participants will enjoy an all-inclusive stay at Hotel Ginger in the heart of Tbilisi, covering three meals per day plus coffee breaks. Perched on Mtatsminda mountain, Ginger provides panoramic views of the whole city. A short walk leads down to Old Town and the historic heart of the city as well as shopping, museums, jazz clubs, the Opera, ballet, and a rich variety of coffee shops and cafes.

What Kind of Projects Have Participants Developed?

Here is a small sample of the plans connecting arts and kingdom goals that previous participants have created:

  • Trauma healing classes for Syrian refugee children facilitate expressions of lament through storytelling, poetry, calligraphy, and music, bringing healing, hope, and increased shalom to their traumatized communities.

  • A heritage festival for music and arts increases shalom and positive cultural identity in a underserved Jamaican neighborhood

  • Children’s songs show that the Kaqchikel language (in Guatemala) can be sung, integrating Scripture into their lives.

  • Scripture-infused Yurak (dance) helps a Yupik community in Alaska affirm traditional values and bring the community together, decreasing alcohol and drug dependency and helping people to engage with God.

  • Kenyan grandmothers tell Bible stories and sing songs in indigenous styles to their grandchildren and the women of their compound, moving believers to identify as fully indigenous followers of Christ and embedding the Word of God into the community.

  • A birth ceremony with songs, dances, and storytelling encourages the development of godly families in Cameroon.

  • Gospel music and dance increase identity in Christ for learners in a Jamaican school for the blind.

  • The Fur (in Sudan) use juru dance with tombol drum to teach Bible stories, resulting in people of all ages dancing together and celebrating the Word of God.