OVERVIEW
Focus on the Arts (herein FOTA) is arts mission. It is conceived to bring together individuals and groups to engage in local-global humanitarian activities through free exercise of the arts and immersion in especially non-western traditions. Our hope is that this will increasingly return the spiritual to worldwide Christian arts in the 21st century. Historically, Christian arts tell that from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, even during the Great Reformation of the Mother Church, the artist’s talen is from God, so must remain subservient to the function of the God’s Kingdom work. Today, except in music, most other arts seem to be loosing grips of this eternal reward. Conveniently, the arts open both the eyes of the heart and soul. King David, despite his great height, never departed from the use for that (with his faith) was what brought him from the graze land to kingship over his people. We, therefore, reason that the arts can still in our times be used to teach, and preach, even bring down God’s healing, when done most Biblically. Our will is to accomplish these by building bridges and collaborations with individuals and groups across world cultures and by mentoring, training, friendship and networking that we may give into God’s work our God’s given talens. It is a horrendous work of challenges and possibilities; but this is our chance, tomorrow promises no one.

MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of FOTA is, therefore, to enlighten and exhort the gentle art and science of free exercise of the arts to bring the lost back home and to reinforce those in by building bridges between Christian faith and Christian artists, friends of Christian arts, organizations and others worldwide, developing local-global connections and innovative ways of sharing knowledge, information and skills through immersion in both Western and non-western traditions, promoting cross-cultural dialogues and tolerance of free exercise of the arts.

What Is Important To FOTA?
(1) Global Arts Mission- traveling International Arts Laboratories in manner of community-based workshops that are empirical sites for community service and professional development

(2) Special projects and local platforms for free exercise of the arts and their intersections with the local-global marketplace of ideas.

(3) And any thing else open to all irrespective of denomination that may bring the Christian artists’ talens to focus on the purpose of human creation.