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The arts have been used for centuries to express and inform people about traumatic situations and to provide emotional release for those actually experiencing trauma. This article places the use ofthe arts for healing the wounds of trauma in an historical context and gives current examples of how song, dance, drawing, instrumental music, and pottery have been used to help those whose lives have been turned upside down by personal life experience and community tragedies. Encouraging the use of the arts in trauma healing ministry in mission is the underlying purpose of this article.  \nWith traumatic situations resulting from war, tribal conflict, disease, famine, and the breakdown of the family rampant in our world today, the role of the Church in promoting biblically-based trauma healing is becoming an essential aspect of missions. In fact, it has been said that “trauma is perhaps the greatest mission field of the 21st century”(Landberg 2011:3) . How will the Church be empowered to meet the needs of traumatized people when the Church itself is often weak and traumatized? Church leaders are caught up in conflicts, diminishing their roles as spiritual leaders and sometimes even ending up being killed. Divisions based on cultural differences intensify within church communities. The family – the basis of the local church – is physically and emotionally disrupted and no longer strong enough to lay a foundation for spiritual growth. There is a need to permeate traumatic situations with the good news of Christ’s peace and power in order to bring about forgiveness, unity, and hope. In this article we will examine how the use of the performing and visual arts can facilitate and promote the healing of the emotional and spiritual wounds received when people experience trauma.  \nThe use ofthe arts to express pain and trauma is not a new phenomenon. From the Narmer Palette, an ancient Egyptian carving depicting a conquering Egyptian Pharaoh pounding a peg into the head of a vanquished enemy, to the mural, Guernica, painted by Picasso and vividly portraying the trauma inflicted upon civilians as a result of the Spanish Civil War, the visual arts have historically had an important role in helping people express trauma. Photojournalism has made the horrors of modern warfare and the accompanying trauma more readily available to the general population through the works of photographers such as Eddie Adams (2008) and David Turnley (Wikipedia 2012a) . The trauma of famine in Sudan was the subject of a haunting photograph by Kevin Carter (Krauss 2006) . Carter, by capturing on film a buzzard observing a starving child crawling to a food distribution center, brought the horrors of this tragedy to the eyes of the public in a startling way.  \nA moving contemporary use of visual art to help members of the military deal with what is now labeled post-traumatic stress disorder combines paper making with visual artistic expressions of trauma. The Combat Paper Project “utilizes art making workshops to assist veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences as well as broadening the traditional narrative surrounding service and the military culture”(Cameron 2007) . Drew Matott and Drew Cameron, initiators ofthis project, hold workshops for veterans teaching them how to make paper out of the military uniforms they wore in combat “to create cathartic works of art.”The uniforms are shredded, beaten into a pulp, and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans then create works of art with the newly-produced paper in a “transformative process of papermaking  \nto reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experiences in the military”(Drew Cameron, personal communication) . 1  \nLibe","cbCaidzGkSgAOaPW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidzGkSgAOaPW","pdf",350456,"English","# Introduction\n## Arts and Trauma Healing in Ministry\n# Historical and Contemporary Examples\n## Visual Art and Public Awareness\n## Community Programs Using Art\n## Personal Tragedy Through Art","[{\"question\":\"How do the performing and visual arts support trauma healing in ministry?\",\"answer\":\"They create a tool that helps facilitate healing by enabling emotional release and expression while integrating the Word of God. The article links artistic activities to spiritual and emotional recovery.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article connect trauma healing with Christian missions?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that traumatic situations from war, conflict, disease, famine, and family breakdown make biblically grounded trauma healing increasingly essential for missions. It also notes leadership and community disruption that intensifies the need.\"},{\"question\":\"What historical evidence does the article use to show arts can express trauma?\",\"answer\":\"It cites visual arts such as ancient Egyptian carvings, Picasso’s Guernica, and photojournalism examples documenting modern warfare and famine. These works are presented as ways trauma becomes understandable and emotionally accessible to others.\"}]","The Use of the Arts in Trauma Healing Ministry | PDF"]