Hey there.
Just to remind you, we are now blogging from some new locations, so if you haven’t already, please come and join us. We are currently running 3 blogs:
Visual:Christ
Social:Christ
Inspire:Christ
Please check them out, subscribe, join us on twitter, and hang with us! We are super excited about this next stretch of our journey.
We are also still looking for new bloggers, so if its something you are interested in please get in touch.
- James
As you may have noticed, things have been a little quite around here recently.
This was mainly the result of a lot of people within the core group who ran the AFC blog having changes in their lives which meant that they couldn’t keep up with the blogging.
The main point though is that Artists for Christ is back, but a little different!
We have decided that it is best to split Artists for Christ into a few individual blogs and have it running as a growing blog network. One of the main reasons for this is that it was felt that before there were a lot of very different posts going out which covered a huge range of subjects, and a lot of them may not have been relevant to everyone following the blog. We are going to start it slowly, but we are relaunching right now with 3 new blogs. If they are of interest to you, please follow them on your Twitter/RSS feeder, or get email updates.
Visual:Christ
www.visualchri.st
“Here we are exploring how visual art can be used by the church for communication and what it means to be a Christian visual artist in the 21st century.”
Twitter: http://twitter.com/visualchrist
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Visualchrist
Email Subscription: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Visualchrist
Social:Christ
www.socialchri.st
“Communication is key for both evangelism and keeping things running well within the church. With the explosion of Web 2.0/Social Media there is both an opportunity to do communication really well, and an opportunity to really suck.
Social:Christ is about helping you to suck less.”
Twitter: http://twitter.com/social_christ
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Socialchrist
Email Subscription: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Socialchrist
Inspire:Christ
www.inspirechri.st
“Here we will be sharing images, words, videos, and audio which we hope will inspire you creatively.”
Twitter: http://twitter.com/inspirechrist
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Inspirechrist
Email Subscription: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Inspirechrist
We will be opening more blogs as time goes by, but for now we will be starting up again slowly.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped and supported Artists for Christ along the way, through good times and bad. I hope we can continue working together and bringing glory to God in creative ways!
Lastly, we are still very much looking for quality bloggers to work with, so please, if you have skills to offer, and ideas to bring, email me at james (at) artistsforchrist (dot) net.
Also if you just want to chat – tweet us @Artists4Christ
Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.”Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”John 11: 38-44
I know that we have been sleeping for a while…but, watch this space, Jesus is bringing us back to life!
We do need help, we need writers and technical people who can make a time commitment to the kingdom! If thats you contact us.
Oh – and that thing with the site being terrible to load sometimes? We’re fixing that too!
Love you guys so much! Thanks for standing by our side, even though we have been inconsistent over the last year or so.
We are excited about what the Lord has planned for this year and beyond!
- James
A lot of you guys have been asking about getting hold of the “I did not come to condemn….” stickers that we featured on the site recently.
I am pleased to announce that they are now avaliable at www.jesuspropaganda.com.
- James
You may have noticed that the Artists for Christ blog has been a little quiet recently.
The main reason for this is that we have been preparing to go on mission, and we are leaving tonight!
The team is made up from guys all over Europe and we are heading to Berlin to share the gospel through an art exhibition, live painting on the streets, prayer for healing, and other exciting stuff!
We really need your prayer support so please sign up to our Berlin prayer newsletter.
We are extremely excited about this trip and seeing our awesome God touch people’s lives. Watch this space for news!
May the Lord bless you all,
- James
We are really excited to announce that Artists for Christ is now on MySpace and Facebook!
We would love to connect with you so please feel free to add us!
- James
PS – we are @Artists4Christ on Twitter!
We are super excited today as Artists for Christ has a brand new look!
It’s something that we have been working on for many weeks and now it is finally here! We hope that you like the changes and find it easier to navigate the site.
Many thanks to our friend Panos who has been doing some awesome design work for us, including our new logo.
We would love your feedback about the new look, so do feel free to get in contact if you would like!
- The Artists for Christ Team
Hey guys, just a note to say that we are currently working on a new look for the Artists for Christ blog.
We have been working on it for quite a few weeks now and it’s almost ready to go. Please do excuse us for any mess that there might be over the next few days, we will try and keep it to a minimum!
The new look should be with us by the end of the week!
May the Lord bless you,
- The Artists for Christ team
Just a quick post to say that for those of you who have signed up to the Jonah Illustration Project the emails went out today. If you were expecting to receive an email and haven’t then please get in touch.
We are really excited about this project, so stay tuned for all the latest info!
- James
Because it’s Christmas, I thought it would be a great excuse to get a load of artists together to make a zine full of creativity based on the (very loose) theme of Christmas!
Above is an image submitted by Gospel Graffiti artists, Rhyse.
We have had some great submissions so far even including a tasty Christmas recipe!
Since writing about inspiring websites and over the last couple of days scouring sites such as Flickr and Ffffound, I have been….you guessed it SO inspired! It’s been frustrating sitting at my desk at work, because I just want to leave the office and go paint!
Because of the new year holiday I have the next few days off, so it is going to be perfect for setting some time aside for creativity, and getting my submissions ready!
I understand that over Christmas it has been a busy time, so I want to open up the zine submissions for another week or so.
Please email your submissions to christmaszinesubmissions@artistsforchrist.net.
Everything is welcome, so please, get involved!
- James