ABOUT
By local experts for creatives.
Creative Tides empowers creativity to flow within the Church and ripple out to the local community by curating accessible, expert-level resources and building church-to-church partnerships.
Worship & Creative Arts Ministry within the Church is a unique ministry, requiring many niche and particular skill in tandem with a humble, servant heart. In this way, this ministry is unlike any other ministry or job and thus, can sometimes feel very isolating, confusing, or frustrating with a "sink or swim" pressure put on both those serving and those leading. We believe that there is high caliber knowledge and quality skill among those within our local community and therefore, Creative Tides Ministry exists to build church-to-church partnerships and resource creatives in an affordable and attainable way, capitalizing on the "experts" in our own churches and community. This partnership provides a network of support, friendships, and sustainability in a ministry that once felt isolating. As resources and expertise are shared, our hope is that these skills would ripple outside the Church walls and contribute to the community. The skills honed and crafted with excellence will contribute to a thriving, local economy; the relationships forged from shared commonality and interest will develop trust and opportunity for evangelistic impact and sharing of the Gospel, outside the church walls.
WHY 'TIDES'?
Wikipedia Definition of 'Tide': "The rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another."
The name "Creative Tides" was chosen because we grow as we are pulled and challenged by one another, while 'orbiting' around and being drawn into discipleship by the gravitational pull of Jesus, the Son.
ON THE BASIS OF SCRIPTURE
“...I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called . . . But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it... So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves . . . Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”