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Connecting Compassionate Response with Creativity, the Arts, and Worship

The needs around us are growing—crisis, trauma, and mental health struggles touch nearly every family and congregation.

At the Creative Compassion Conference October 16-18, 2026 in Indianapolis we’ll explore how congregations and artists can respond to a hurting world with Spirit-led, trauma-informed creative approaches.

We'll discover how creativity and compassion can work together through the arts, hospitality, worship, architecture, design, music, community outreach, care ministry, relief work, and more.

At the conference, artists and architects will speak on creating compassionate spaces and artwork, a placemaking pioneer will talk on artful compassion to underserved communities. Art therapists will show how simple art exercises give churches tools for compassionate response to children and families. Therapists will offer creative approaches to grief ministry. Movement and dance specialists will connect compassion with the body. We'll explore creative lament throughout the conference, and offer tons of practical ideas and creative inspiration. The national Vineyard Worship team will present a full workshop track on Cultivating Compassion with Music and Worship.

We'd love for you to join us in exploring how God will work through creativity to convey his compassion!

Learn More: https://CreativeChurchArts.org