Announcing the 4th Annual Branches Gathering!
March 20th, 2027 • Hidden Spring Farm, Deerfield, NH
Our theme is "Not My Own."
"But does it not make a great difference whether I am, so to speak, the landlord of my own mind and body, or only a tenant, responsible to the real landlord? If somebody else made me, for his own purposes, then I shall have a lot of duties which I should not have if I simply belonged to myself."
— C.S. Lewis
What does it look like to be a Christian creative? Having been not only created with purpose, but then "bought with a price," how are we to steward our generative gifts for God's kingdom? Come join us for a day of making, discussion, music and great food as we explore how creatively freeing it is to be "Not My Own."
2 Corinthians 5:15 — "And He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."
What Is Branches?
We are a local group of New England creatives who passionately believe that each person has been made in the image of God, and as part of that image-bearing we are created to create.
We hope that the pieces we make (whether they are visual art, music, writing, etc.) are a call to our neighbors next door, across the fence and down the lane, our companions on this journey through life.
A call to remember our Creator as we live out our lives in the intermediate space between the Garden and the Restoration. As we wrestle with the fallenness of our world (the tensions of joy and sorrow, peace and suffering, being present while we look to the future), we believe that the arts can be a means that God uses to minister to our hearts and give us strength, courage and community.