Podcast Episodes

Episode 111: Rev. Dr. Byron Spradlin [Global Impact – Part One]

by Rachel Caldwell

What is the impact of the arts around the world? Over the next several weeks, we will dive into a mini-series focused on the global impact of the arts. It is truly an honor to have Rev. Dr. Byron Spradlin on the podcast today to start off this series!

Byron is the Founder and President of Artists in Christian Testimony International, a missions and ministry sending board for artists and creatives. A.C.T. International currently has over 650+ innovative staff in more than 51 nations. For over 50 years, Byron has served the Body of Christ as an artists-in-missions-&-ministry specialist, worship pastor, a Bible teacher, church planter, senior pastor, music-evangelist, professor, recording artist, published songwriter and arts-missiologist in over 50 countries. He is a thought-leader in the role of imagination and the arts in The Church, and is living out his God-given assignment “to disciple and mentor people out of music and the arts, working them into the fabric of church, missions, and marketplace ministry around the world.”

We chat about the unique power of the arts to speak to the hearts of people, practical tools for discipleship, and how (as Byron shares) “the artistically gifted person is one of the most powerful declarers of God’s reality and His accessibility.” Byron is full of life-giving wisdom, insight, and humility, and this is one of those conversations that I will come back to time and time again.

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About Byron:

Rev. Dr. Byron Spradlin is the Founder and President of Artists in Christian Testimony Intl, a missions & ministry sending board for artists and creatives, now with over 650+ innovative staff in more than 51 nations. He is a lifetime member of the Global Ethnodoxology Network, and also serves as a Board member of WorldVenture Mission (600 missionaries in 64 nations) and as Board Vice-Chair and former 35-year Board Chair of the international Jews for Jesus mission. Also, he has served Williamson College (Franklin, TN) since 2011 developing there the Worship studies courses as Professor of Worship, Imagination, and the Arts. He formerly served for a decade as international ARTS Network Catalyst for the Lausanne Movement, and the Arts-in-Culture Gateway coordinator for the North American region of the International Orality Network.

For over 50 years he has served the Body of Christ as an artists-in-missions-&-ministry specialist, worship pastor, a Bible teacher, church planter, senior pastor, music-evangelist, professor, recording artist, published songwriter and arts-missiologist in over 50 countries; and is a thought-leader in the role of imagination and the arts in The Church and Her missional mandates. He’s been married to Pam since 1974, has two grown children and four grandchildren, and has lived here in Franklin, TN, since 1995.

Connect with Byron & A.C.T. International:

info@actinternational.org

actinternational.org