What is a Creative Ministry Festival?
A Creative Ministry Festival is a weekend filled with workshops, performances, competition, demonstrations, excitement and spiritual challenge. Festivals provide a place for teens and adults alike to learn more about creative arts ministry, to have a chance to hone their skills, and to network with other creative ministry enthusiasts in their region.

Choose from beginning and advanced workshops for a variety of creative ministry directors and performers. Workshops (topics vary at each location) featuring: puppet ministry, gospel illusion, ventriloquism, stick ministry, music, ballooning, children's ministry, and leadership will re-energize your ministry. Our workshop leaders are experts who teach from their own experience in leading successful creative ministry teams. It is also a great venue to get ideas and inspiration by watching others perform and compete.

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Who should attend a Creative Ministry Festival?
Children's ministry workers, puppet team directors, creative arts enthusiasts, Sunday school teachers, family worship leaders, and anyone in ministry will benefit from the training and inspiration. Please note that children under age 8 will not be admitted. Please do not bring babies, toddlers, or young children to the festival. The festival is for adults and youth over 8 years old.

What is the schedule of a festival?
Registration opens on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. The festival runs Friday evening and all day Saturday. Please check out a tentative schedule.

Creative Ministry Resource Display
There will be a wide variety of puppets, patterns, creative ministry DVDs, scripts, CDs and other resources for you to purchase. All major credit cards, cash, or personal checks will be accepted. Come early and take time to look over the many ministry resources available to help you.

Cancellation Policies
Refunds will be given only if Creative Ministry Solutions is notified at least ten days prior to the festival. Cancellations received after the ten-day cutoff will receive a merchandise certificate for the registration amount minus a 20% cancellation fee. There will be no refunds after the event. If you are unable to compete, please contact us immediately to allow another team to compete. Competition fees are not refundable.

Register Early!
Get your registration completed as soon as possible! It will allow us the needed time to send a map, hotel information, and a tentative schedule so you can assign your attendees and puppeteers to specific workshops. For a registration form contact the Creative Ministry Solutions Events Department.

2012 Festival Theme
Ready to Go
"Be dressed ready for service, and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return..." -- Luke 12:35-36a (NIV)
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." -- Matthew 28:19-20a (NIV)

Tentative Festival Schedule