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Purpose of the Missional Arts Task Force
Missional Arts Task Force focuses on those with talents in music, visual art, drama, dance and film.
The Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry conducts research, creates resources and develops training for believers to reach various types of people groups. The "cultural creatives" is one of those people groups. They are a segment of society that do not easily fit into the standard paradigms of "Modernists" or "Progressives" vs. "Traditionalists" or "Conservatives." The core of this group are typically "more educated, spiritually-minded, leading-edge thinkers." Many of these are involved in some aspect of the arts: music, dance, theatre, cinema, visual arts. At the same time, most believers who are gifted in the arts perceive that their talents are to be used in the context of a worship service within their church's building. They do not understand worship as encompassing all of life and the arts as a way of bringing worship to the community.
The purpose of the Missional Arts Task Force is to discuss ways to foster Missional Artisans (lay missionaries who engage the arts community), develop cultural understanding of cultural creatives, create materials and resources for them, design the training process, foster ongoing interaction between them in peer-to-peer learning networks, and improve their implementation as they engage cultural creatives in their communities.
There is no related travel for participants. We ask the Missional Arts Task Force participants to commit to four quarterly meetings over the next year with a time of 2 hours for each meeting via Skype or GoToMeeting. Beyond this commitment, the Task Force participants themselves may extend the sessions based on their own consensus.
Benefits for Participants on the Missional Arts Task Force
- Direct input into the design of the Missional Artisan training process, materials, and resources
- Collaboration with others who have been trained or who seek to be trained as Missional Artisans
- Ongoing case studies regarding implementation in various church and community settings.
- Input in the design of a grant proposal for developing Missional Artisan training and mobilization
- Option to become a Regional Missional Artisan Trainer who equips Missional Artisans
Co-Hosts for the Missional Arts Task Force | ||
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 Executive Director of IICM, North Augusta, SC |
 Director of Worship & Music, SCBC, Columbia, SC | |
Missional Arts Task Force Participants
Linda Bergquist
Dr Linda Bergquist,
Urban Church Planting Strategist, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Linda Bergquist is a cultural creative who works with cultural creatives in the San Francisco Bay area. She has been a church planting missionary with the North American Mission Board for 15 years, and has been involved in church planting for three decades. She completed a B.A. in Sociology at the Univeristy of California, San Diego; a MDiv in Missions at Southwestern Seminary; and a DMin in Missions Administration at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary where she has served as an adjunct professor for ten years. Linda and her husband live in San Francisco where they engage their city together. She is the co-author of Church Turned Inside Out: A Guide for Designers, Refiners, and ReAligners, and has also written numerous articles and guest blogs on subjects such as various people groups, justice issues and urban church planting.
David Brazzeal
David Brazzeal, La Fonderie, Paris, France
As a missional artist in Paris, France, David is a freelance composer, writer/poet and occasional guerrilla labyrinth, visual artist. He also serves as the communications coordinator for La Fonderie, a gallery / performance space which seeks to encourage up-and-coming artists of all types. With his wife, Sanan and four daughters, he has lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Guadeloupe, French West Indies; and Montréal, Québec.
Kerry Jackson
Rev. Kerry Jackson, Cultural Creatives Missionary, Atlanta, GA
Kerry Jackson is the national missionary to Cultural Creatives for the SBC North American Mission Board. Kerry also leads in and teaches creative worship through the arts as a painter under the auspices of his ministry "Drawing to the Rock," a non-profit ministry performing visual art in worship. He and his wife have used their personal art gallery in Midtown Atlanta as a vehicle for starting Bezalel Church which reaches and serves the arts community of Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Mississippi State University with a B.A. in Painting and received a Master of Communication Arts from Southwestern Seminary.
Nancy Mockros
Dr. Nancy Mockros, World Religions Professor, Dallas, TX
Dr. Nancy Mockros works with East-West Ministries International as the European Outreach Director, serves as Parish Associate at Highland Park Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Dallas & teaches World Religions in the Dallas County Colleges. Dr. Mockros has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television & has presented papers at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (London) and the American Academy of Religion. She has published a number of articles & has several manuscripts pending publication. She has earned a Ph.D. in Theology & Culture from Fuller Seminary, M.Div. & M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Trinity International University & B.A. from Northwestern University.
Stan Moore
Dr. Stan Moore,
Worship, Missions & Church Music Professor, Arlington, TX
Dr. Stan Moore is a Senior Fellow and Professor of Church Music and Worship at the B. H. Carroll Theological Institute in Arlington, TX. His background in worship and missions will be especially useful on the Missional Arts Task Force. Prior to his appointment to BHCTI in November 2003, he was the Thad Roberts Professor of Music Ministry at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2003). Dr. Moore was Chairman of the Music Ministry Department (1990-2002) and Acting Dean of the School of Church Music (2002-03). He was Guest Tutor in Worship Studies and Spiritual Formation at St. John's College (Nottingham, England) in 1993-94. While a missionary to Brazil (1978-87), he served as Professor of Conducting and Music Ministry of the South Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Director of the seminary's School of Sacred Music (1982-87). Dr. Moore has served as Minister of Music in churches in New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Brazil, and Interim Pastor of the Good News Baptist Church (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He has led workshops, presentations, and conferences on worship, missions, and music ministry in a number of churches and theological institutes in the United States, Brazil, England, Romania, and Germany. In 2003 he co-founded and directed the first Global Consultation on Music and Missions (GCoMM). Stan Moore is a graduate of the University of New Mexico where he earned a BME degree in Voice and Conducting. He also earned MCM and MM degrees in Conducting, and a DMA degree in Music Ministry from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Ft. Worth TX). Additional studies include Escola de Português e Orientação (Campinas, Brazil), Regent's Park College (Oxford University), St. John's College (Nottingham, England), and conferences under George Barna and Dr. Robert Webber.
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith, Performer & Conference Speaker, Richmond, VA
Jeff Smith is the Director of Salt and Light Ministries which provides resources, seminars, workshops and training for drama, creative arts, children’s and youth groups, and ministry teams. After graduation from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1980, Jeff spent eight years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. Besides various military awards and decorations, Jeff was selected Best Male Vocalist in Major Army Commands in 1982, 1983 and 1985. In 1985 and again in 1987, he was selected to tour with the All-Army Soldier's Show that toured the US, Europe and the Far East. While stationed at FT Lee he held leads in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "King and I", "Grease", "Pippin", and "I Do! I Do!". In May of 1988, he resigned his commission to start Salt & Light Ministries. While getting his ministry started and working in the local church setting, he finished his Master’s Degree in Communications with an emphasis on Script and Screenwriting from Regent University in 1995. He also completed the Master of Worship Arts program at Liberty University. Since then, Jeff has performed throughout the world as a featured performer and master teacher at local, state, and national training conferences and seminars in drama, worship arts, music ministry, teacher training, children’s ministry, and creative arts. In 1991, he was the Grand Prize Winner for Drama at the Christian Artist's Seminar at Estes Park, Colorado, and was a finalist in the vocal categories from 1989 - 1991. His sketches have won international acclaim to include Best Comedy Sketch in 1999, Best Dramatic Sketch in 2000, and another Best Comedy Sketch in 2004 at the CITA Sketchwriting Contest.
Keith Thibodeaux
Keith Thibodeaux, Executive Director of Ballet Magnificat!, Jackson, MS
Mr. Thibodeaux, executive director of Ballet Magnificat! since 1993, first came to national attention as the drum-playing son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on the now classic "I Love Lucy" show. Hailed as a child prodigy, Keith started drumming at the age of two in Lafayette, LA. His abilities led him to a national tour, a starring role as "Little Ricky Ricardo" and various acting stints on television, including "The Andy Griffith Show," "Route 66," "The Shirley Temple Playhouse," "Hazel," and many more. While attending the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, Keith joined and recorded with the then mainstream rock band, "David and the Giants." Keith left the group after several years, but, following his (and fellow band members) Christian conversion, the band regrouped under the same name and went on to become one of the nation’s top contemporary Christian music groups. As a drummer, singer, and songwriter for the Dove nominated "David and the Giants," Keith toured extensively for 10 years in the United States, Canada, Jamaica, and England, recording 9 albums before leaving the group in 1989 to pursue other interests. He has been featured in such publications as Newsweek , People , Saturday Evening Post, Modern Drummer , CCM, and Classic Drummer Magazines. He has also been a frequent guest on NBC's The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, CBS's Good Morning America and the O'Reilly Show. In January of 1991, he joined his wife Kathy, a professional ballet dancer and silver medalist in the 1982 II USA International Ballet Competition, on the road with Ballet Magnificat! In 1993, Keith became executive director of the national/international touring ballet company School of the Arts founded by his wife. Keith now makes his home in Jackson, MS, with Kathy. They have one daughter, Tara, who married college basketball great and professional NBA player Bryce Drew. In addition to his current responsibilities at Ballet Magnificat!, Keith still finds time for the drums and recording. Keith's book, Life After Lucy, tells the story of his life as Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" show, and subsequent encounter with Jesus Christ as Savior.
