How to CARE Arts Workshop: Cultivating Compassion and Restoration with the Arts
With J. Scott McElroy
Saturday April 25th, 10am-1:30pm, Evanston Vineyard Church
2495 Howard St., Evanston, IL 60202
$30
(+$1.50 Paypal fee)
Lunch and refreshments included PLUS a free copy of Scott’s book Finding Divine Inspiration
Space is limited. We hope to see you there!
J. Scott McElroy (MATM, Fuller Seminary) is an author, artist, and arts advocate. His books include How to CARE: Crisis, Trauma, and Mental Health Ministry with the Arts, Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation, and Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity. Scott is director of the non-profit New Renaissance Arts, and it’s new initiative CARE Arts Ministry. He lives on a park in Indianapolis with his wife Danielle, and their intense Mountain Cur, Madeline.
The How to CARE Arts Workshop
When hearts break creativity can become a lifeline.
The needs around us are growing—crisis, trauma, and mental health struggles touch nearly every family and congregation. But many believers feel unprepared to help.
CARE (Compassionate Artistic Response and Engagement) offers a way forward: a Spirit-led, arts-based, scientifically validated path to responding with both compassion and creativity.
CARE is a healing form of creative arts ministry, based on proven Art Therapy practices, grounded in trauma-informed principles, and done with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
You’ll learn:
- How the arts are excellent allies in the Christian mission of compassionate response and how a developing a trauma-informed faith is the Christian way.
- How the CARE Arts Ministry model—Spirit Led, Trauma & Art Therapy Informed, Humility Based, and Exchange Oriented—can be facilitated by any believer, from “unartistic” lay person to master artist.
- Research-backed evidence for how the arts, creativity, beauty, imagination, and movement support healing and ministry.
If you’re ready to respond to today’s challenges with compassion and creativity, How to CARE provides a clear path: Compassionate Artistic Response and Engagement (CARE).
Be part of the response. Join us at the How to CARE workshop and learn how to bring healing through the arts.
This workshop is sponsored by Evanston Vineyard Church, and Hope for Artists.
Contact Scott (at) TheNewR.org for more information.
How to CARE Arts Workshop: Cultivating Compassion and Restoration with the Arts
With J. Scott McElroy
Saturday April 25th, 10am-1:30pm, Evanston Vineyard Church
2495 Howard St., Evanston, IL 60202
$30
(+$1.50 Paypal fee)
Lunch and refreshments included PLUS a free copy of Scott’s book Finding Divine Inspiration