This is Michael Minkoff, and I’d like to speak to you at length from my heart. You may not know much of what I’m about to tell you, because we don’t regularly talk about it. I honestly don’t like talking about it, as anyone who knows me will readily confirm. But here goes.
We at Renew the Arts have been working for more than fifteen years to support art partnership and community within the body of Christ, and we have never had the resources to fulfill our full potential. By merely human metrics, we should have already ceased to exist, like other much larger and much more “successful” Christian arts organizations before us.
Regularly, people show great surprise when they become more familiar with our practical inner workings. Based on our output, our impact, and our longevity, most people expect that we must be a much larger organization with a much larger budget. Not so much. In fact, our entire organization consists of three salaried employees paid part-time wages and a handful of unpaid (or underpaid) volunteers. Our annual budget in total for the whole organization has regularly been less than the average income of a single American household.
