Visioning is art.

With this understanding, we can see why creating and sharing vision is such a challenge for so many leaders.

When you create art, you want it to be appreciated and to varying degrees understood. The art of vision is about the experience of a desired future. One can learn different approaches to visioning but in the end it’s up to those who will interpret the vision that informs us whether or not we have art.

In Student Ministry the challenge in our art is that we have such a varied audience–teens, parents, staff, supervisors and outsiders. The best art in student Ministry needs to be simple.

Art begins with a blank canvas, supplies, and the time to create art.

In order to create art I’ve asked three simple questions.

Are you seeing new faces at your weekly events?
Does your meeting room look the same as last year?
Have you changed anything on your Student Ministry calendar in the last year?

As you consider your answers to the above questions, let the art begin.

Stay in front of the canvas until you have art.