We, The Chapel Creatives, are pleased to open an offering to the Lord— expanded and accessible spaces for the worship arts—a visual arts gallery and a virtual stage for singer songwriters. We hope these new spaces will inspire more authentic worship and creative energy for the glory of Christ. Our prayer for the future is that art will be displayed in calendared shows and concerts sometimes highlighting the vision of artists in and around our faith community, sometimes complementing a sermon series and sometimes focusing on a challenge or blessing in our current experiences. We’ll be learning along the way and welcome feedback. If you’d like to learn more about why we were inspired to start this project, click here.

May the creative God we serve lead us in our arts as worship and our worship as an art.

FALL EXHIBIT 2026

“And to the End of the Earth”

August 23rd - September 27th

Act 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth"

This Chapel Creatives exhibition finds its center in the command that Jesus gave to his disciples in Acts 1:8 just before he was lifted into the sky! What a dramatic moment that was! Since the words of Acts 1:8 were his final earthly communication, they have carried significant weight and explosive force in the church from the times of the Book of Acts until the present day.

Acts 1:8 serves as a litmus test for knowing if the church remains true to its purpose of bringing the Gospel to folks all over the Globe. The simple command generates questions-are we welcoming the stranger into our church life? Are we reaching out to our neighbors? Are we crossing cultures to the unreached? Are our sons and daughters being presented with this incredible privilege to send and go to "the end of the earth" with the Good News?

Since the unreached world is full of so many different cultures, one of the challenges we face as "World Christians" is to learn about other cultures, to appreciate them, to step out of our comfort zones in order to share news of the Gospel in places that may be culturally very different from us-different languages, different histories, different cultural heroes, different family traditions, different arts, etc. Inevitably, when the Gospel arrives in one of these places and takes root in the hearts of the people there, they naturally turn to their own language and culture to express their praise and worship of Jesus. So, this exhibition underlines cultural and artistic differences among the many different peoples of the world, and it strives to present our prayer and hope to see every tongue, tribe and nation worshiping the Lamb at the end of days.

Note: If you are interested in talking with an artist about their work or about purchases or commissions, email the curator, Mike Lane haoyist@gmail.com for contact information.

“Fisherman”

Kyle and Quincy Clement

Paper collage

"Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men."

“Fish”

Japanese style of Gyotaku where ink is applied to a fish and stamped onto washi paper. Originally used by fisherman to record their catches but has now become its own art form.

(Gifted to me when I worked in the ichthyology department)

Displayed by Quincy Clement

“I Am The Way, The Truth, The Life”

Brenda Cottle

“Doing The Laundry”

Mike Lane

Some years ago, this piece of watercolor art was accomplished plein air in a remote Bell village in East Asia. These folks do not yet have a complete Bible in their language and their folk religion is a mix of animism, ancestor worship, and shamanism. The Chapel is still involved in reaching this unreached people group (UPG) with the Gospel of Christ.

"...And how are they to hear without someone preaching?"

Romans 10:14b

“And To The End Of The Earth”

Jim Davis

Hoài Phương (often written with diacritics as Hoài Phương) is a popular and poetic given name, usually feminine. It combines two meaningful words that together evoke a sense of enduring grace,

I met Hoài Phương at our base camp twenty miles southwest of Da Nang Vietnam. Like my rifle company members, I often wonder how all thier lives turned out. My prayer for Hoài is that she has found Jesus through missionaries, the translated bible, or her local church in An Hoa. I am encouraged by the fact that 8 million, 7.6-8% of the population, are Christians.

“Attending To The Savior”

Mike Lane

This acrylic piece was launched during the Porch Create Art event last week. From the beginning, this scene was outside my comfort zone because I usually use watercolor mediums. But I forged on and found my meditation deepened as I leaned into the Cross and all it means to me.

The piece finds its inspiration in the many "pieta" works that display the dead savior just taken off the cross with the grieving Mary and other onlookers weeping and caring for the body. My focus wasn't on Mary but on the idea that today many people groups need to have the chance to meet their savior, to know He died for them and to attend to his sufferings.

I tried to relay the cross-cultural element through the colors in the clothing and skin colors of those who are caring for Jesus. Also, the flow of the blood of Christ became a focus as I finished up the painting. A great deal of blood is flowing, and this symbolizes the sufficiency of his work on the Cross to cover the sins of all the yet to be reached peoples. This idea of focusing on the blood of Christ in a painting is not new-check out the works of Giovanni Bellini and Caravaggio in the 15t and 16t centuries.

"Enlightenment?"

These ceremonial grass sandals are worn by some believers in folk religion in East Asia. They are worn as the person pilgrimages up a mountain. They seem to be committed spiritual seekers. At some moment in the trek, the person discards the shoes by the path as a sign that enlightenment has occurred.

Displayed by Mike Lane

"...And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?"

Romans 10:14