We started Image Ministries at our church in 2008 because our passion is to see the body of Christ (the church) regain this lost ground and become influential in all of the arts.  We are working on reaching out to artists in different venues and our goal is to see them have a life changing encounter with Jesus and see them use their gift to advance the Kingdom of God.

Image Ministries works in three different capacities at our church. 

• I.  Prophetic Art

We have painters who are gifted in “prophetic art”  and this is how it works:  The artist though prayer seeks the Lord for a message to paint, most of the time the artist does not understand what the message is they are painting. 

Example: In February 2009 one of our prophetic artists prayed for the Lords direction of what to paint.  So he painted a thick long chain with an explosion happening in the middle of one of the links and the chain being broken by the explosion.  None of us had the interpretation for this painting.  We understand when God speaks a message it never returns void so we hung it in the church and waited.  About 3 weeks later, there was a wedding at our church and a visitor was standing in the hall way looking at that painting and crying.  He said that this painting was showing his whole life where he had struggled and been chained up with addictions… and he had recently accepted Jesus as his savior and that represented the explosion in his life that broke the chain of addiction.   (Rest of the story:  After giving him the painting, we noticed he had severe feet problems and he allowed us to pray for him, and the Lord healed his feet!)

• II.  Interpretive Art

We also have painters who are gifted in “interpretive art”  and this is how it works:  The artist will take the scripture that is being preached and will paint an interpretation of that scripture.  Sometimes our prophetic artists and interpretative artists will paint during our Sunday morning worship services.

• III.  Imparting the gifts

As our Image Ministries continues to grow, we are planning in the near future to have art classes to teach those interested in learning the basic skills how to use their artistic gifts to minister the word of the Lord to others through the arts.

We firmly believe that those who have been given this gift are to impart this gift to the younger generations and we are providing a venue for this to take place.