Knoxville Christian Arts Ministries is a community of choral and instrumental musicians, actors, and dancers who share God’s love through the medium of the arts wherever He leads in the Knoxville area and beyond. In 2005, the Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church Sanctuary and Handbell Choirs travelled to Peru for a ten-day mission trip, where they presented concerts in a number of universities and ch
urches in Lima. They began to pray at that time that the trip would not be a self-contained event but would be the beginning of a continuing outreach ministry to the Knoxville area and further afield, as God led. The opportunities for service became so numerous that in July 2009 Cedar Springs commissioned Knoxville Christian Art Ministries as a community-wide, intentionally multi-generational ministry dedicated to missional outreach through choral and instrumental music, dance, and drama. Now in our fourth season, we serve annually at Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City, Southeast Correctional Facility in Pikeville, Morgan County Correctional Facility, Knox County Detention Facility, and Knox Area Rescue Ministries. Our desire is to offer ourselves continually to God’s leading, and He has given us unique opportunities each year to proclaim the gospel and cast a vision for ministry through the performing arts: Chuck Colson Ministries Conference in Washington, D.C. (2010); Soar Ministries for inner-city youth (2010); Lost Sheep homeless ministry (2011); Tennessee Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in Chattanooga (2011); Johnson University Homecoming and Ministry Conference (2013); Concert for the homeless community in Johnson City (2013); Dandridge Youth Facility (2013).
