Our Mission
The Harvest Collective is a unified assembly of dedicated and believing artists whose aim is to imagine, create, and express—by craft and skill—perennial, palpable, and faith-anchoring legacies for the glory of God and edification of His Church.
Why
Created // Made in the Image
The church of God, peopled from every tribe, tongue, and nation, is called to create because we know, serve, and reflect the Creator. And the church doesn’t create in vain; our works here on Earth, engendered by the Holy Spirit’s presence in His people, are small reflections of heaven, expressions of the “already and not-yet” reality of the advancement of the kingdom of God on Earth. In our art, we believers “stir up one another to love and good works” [Heb. 10:24-25] and we equip our minds with truth, endeavoring to outfit ourselves from the inside out with the armor of God.
“We are designed to benefit from beauty in creativity. Have you ever wondered why we sing our national anthems and don’t just recite their lyrics, or why as children we learn our alphabet in rhyming songs rather than simply a series of monotone spoken sounds? It’s because God made us to be powerfully engaged in our senses and memories by music. Songs have the power to prompt a memory or transport us back to some other time and place. Our sense of imagination is another aspect of the dignity we have been given as human beings by God. It should not be belittled, but embraced and nurtured, especially by the artistic endeavors of every local church. They reach the inner corridors of our soul in a way that other things cannot.”
All of nature is the continuing expression of God’s craftsmanship, and we, the “crown of creation,” incredibly are not only created, but creating. This power of creation is a gift, and it serves to express one aspect of an imaginative and innovative God. And when we create, we join the march of the cosmos that “declare[s] the glory of God and…proclaim[s] his handiwork” [Ps. 8:1].
“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn — shout for joy before the Lord, the King. Let the sea resound and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy; let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.”