In the autumn of 1988, our founder Rosemarie Adcock, a professional artist, documented the lives of Russian refugees in the form of oil paintings with accompanying texts that told their stories. The series of 26 paintings grew to include 120 paintings and texts that covered the overthrow of communism in the former Soviet Union, and toured the United States and Europe for 7 years.
As a result of that tour of fine art, Arts for Relief and Missions (ARM) was founded when we received over $1.25 million wholesale of Gift-In-Kind donations of vegetable seeds and vitamins, which were distributed to orphanages and impoverished churches and families throughout all 11 time zones of the former Soviet Union. Arts for Relief and Missions was incorporated by February of 1993 as a 501c3 charitable organization.
To see more of who we are, watch the 7-minute video "I Would Die For You" on our Resource page.
Our bridge to the world may be in the form of a concert, an art exhibit or a humanitarian relief project. To us, the arts are parables. We are passionate about seeing lives transformed for Christ by building His Church through heartfelt worship and expository teaching of the Scriptures. We think Jesus was serious when He said God seeks those who worship in spirit and in truth. In a world going through rapid changes, we reach people with the message of our God who never changes.
