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ARTS RELEASE is a collective of creative arts specialists who love Jesus and people of other cultures. We enjoy expressing God's love through various art forms. Some of us have professional arts training and others have picked up skills on the way. Some of us are full-time, others part-time. We are currently based in the UK & Ireland, France, Germany, Spain and Singapore.

ARTS RELEASE is the new name for ‘Resonance’, the cross-cultural arts ministry of WEC International. WEC is committed to crossing cultures to make disciples, starting churches where there are none or few, and praying to see Jesus known, loved and worshipped.

See the sections on Music & Worship, Drama, Performing Arts and Visual Arts to discover more about what Arts Release does.

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International Activity

ARTS RELEASE focuses on the arts that have the greatest resonance (or 'ring true') for particular individuals and groups. This usually reflects the cultures and societies where they were raised. We engage with the arts in various ways:

Outreach / Discipleship and healing / Training and mobilising / Creative activity / The worship of Jesus / Performance

Meet the Founders

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    Ian and Helen Collinge

    Ian and Helen founded Arts Release in 2008, and though no longer active in day-to-day leadership, they remain connected. Together they bring a long-standing passion for multicultural worship and the arts, shaped by years living and serving in Asia, where they encouraged indigenous expressions of Christian worship.

    Ian loves to worship God using music from around the world, having learned instruments and composed in local styles during his time in the Himalayas. He has since supported multicultural worship in the UK and taught world worship music at various seminaries.

    Helen, who came to faith through the musical Godspell, has been a committed champion of the arts, overseeing administration, hospitality, prayer and pastoral care. A natural networker, she especially enjoys working with refugees and asylum seekers and encouraging artists in many disciplines.

"We all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done"
(Acts 2:11)

WEC International is a Registered Charity in England, Wales and Scotland numbers: 237005 and SCO37715

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