Fields
The building of a network of farms called to use their land for the glory of God through refreshment and renewal for pioneering leaders and artists.
Our Story
The Fields of the Sower’s Abbey bloomed out of a 2025 grant partnership between Creo Arts and Belmont University that was entitled The Art Abbey. This initiative sought to support artists in their spiritual growth by offering prayer, spiritual direction, and contemplative retreat experiences for artists across the nation. The fruition of this project is now found in The Sower’s Abbey, a connectivity between Ascent and Creo Arts. In addition to supporting pioneering missional leaders, the Fields of the Sower’s Abbey provide tangible space for artists in order to heal, grow in their craft, explore faith, and engage with the creator God, and to create faith-inspired art that is birthed from a place of prayer, and communion with God.
The inaugural gathering of the Fields of the Sower’s Abbey at Viridis Farm on August 25, 2025
Viridis Farm Wadmalaw Island, SC
Meet Robert and Lindsay MacLeod
We are Robert and Lindsay MacLeod, the artists behind Khalima Lights and the farmers
behind Viridis Farms.
We have been married for 25 years and in the coppersmithing and lantern-making trade for over 20 years. We are proud Mom and Dad to our precious son, Zion, 17. Lindsay was born in Oregon, but has lived in Charleston the majority of her life. Robert is from Jacksonville, Florida and walked (yes, walked) to Charleston in 1998.
Our heart is to introduce people to Jesus, display His magnificence and His goodness through fellowship, art, and nature, and invite all He calls to come into a space where they
may encounter Him and be made whole. Please, visit khalimalights.com to read more about our story and trade.
Introducing Viridis Farms
Viridis Farms is a working farm on Wadmalaw Island, growing vegetables, fruit, and flowers and bringing together people from all walks of life to discover God’s fingerprints as we tend
the land, the wildlife, and watch His creation grow.
Viridis Farms exists to open space for discipleship, growth, healing, wholeness. Art and farming, life and faith. Prayer and mission. These are the fruits we are watching Jesus produce, and we are excited to bring in the harvest!
Faces of Humanity
The Art Farm Walhalla, SC
Meet The Aligs and The Wrights
The Art Farm has its roots in friendship and faith.
Ruthie and Stephanie met in 1978 at Salem College in North Carolina where they participated in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and studied the arts.
In 1999, Ruthie presented The Art Farm idea to Stephanie, who responded enthusiastically. Prayer and faith steps began.
In 2003, they were Co-Directors of Christian Education at their church, practicing business, leadership and ministry skills as they explored their call to arts ministry. They led a ten week workshop called “The Creative Life: A Workshop for Discovering and Recovering Your Creativity in Christ.” They offered Sunday school classes and vacation Bible schools which emphasized the arts, as well as a Stations of the Cross experience in which church members prepared artistic presentations for Lent. They directed worship services involving drama, set design,
costuming and singing. They also began The Creative Life Studio, a physical space in the church for focusing on arts ministry.
In 2006, Vince Alig was called to be a pastor in Walhalla, SC. The Aligs bought forty-five acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Then Daniel and Stephanie bought three acres from the Aligs and built a home in 2008.
Since the late 2000s, we have hosted missionaries and individuals on day- and week-long personal retreats and held a multitude of art farm retreats and events.
So, your story now joins ours. You are invited to The Art Farm,
currently the land and our two homes, where together we will find out all that God has planned for us!
Introducing The Art Farm
The Art Farm is a place (houses, land, streams, forest and gardens) for growing artists and art. Together we welcome imperfection, process, laughing, learning, praying and encouraging one another, as we cultivate wonder for the living God.
We currently offer personal day retreats for individuals to come and have their own guided day.
Sharing Hours will come later in 2026 along with an art retreat
event. (Updates to come.)
Faces of Humanity
Fourwinds Faith & Art Farm Springfield, MI
Meet Kurt Caddy
Kurt Caddy is a visual artist and theologian. Kurt and Laura live on a farm in Missouri. They have eight grown children. Kurt is constantly in search of a way to express the point at which brokeness and beauty meet in our everyday lives. One way he does this is through his Kintsugi Workshops. Kurt teaches a hands-on workshop and weaves spiritual truth throughout the mending process.Kurt Caddy is an artist who believes that art is generative and transformative. One of the roles
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Introducing Fourwinds Faith and Art Farm
FOURWINDS FAITH AND ART is committed to integrating faith and art at the intersection of the church and culture.
The Four purposes
Educate the Church
Equip Christian Artists
Engage the Culture
Express Creativity
Fourwinds Art and Selah Studios is a sacred space where God’s people can gather to create sacred art for Glory and Beauty (Ex 28:3 ESV).
Faces of Humanity
Current Offerings
Kintsugi Workshops
Kintsugi is the 14 Century Japanese art of mending broken vessels. This beautiful and engaging creative art form becomes a visual representation of God’s redemptive story- from brokenness to beauty through the new creation.
