"Beauty is our sensory access to holiness. God reveals himself, that is, God's life in creation and in Christ, in ways that we can see and hear and touch and taste--in place and person. Beauty is the term we apply to these hints of transcendence, these perceptions that there is more going on here than we can account for." -Eugene Peterson, The Beauty of Holiness.

Through the arts, God can instruct and inspire the human heart. From our soaring architecture to our Rose Window and Ascension Window, and from our wood carvings to our etched and stained glass windows, the congregation of Second Presbyterian Church embraces the fine arts as a means of nurture, instruction and expression of faith. We affirm a ministry of visual and fine arts in which the best gifts are shaped by and offered in worship of God, in special events in which the sacred arts are presented and engaged on their own terms though not for their own sake.

Through our music and fine arts ministry team, the congregation seeks to glorify God and to educate and enrich members of the congregation and the community by encouraging, staging performances of, and exhibiting selected art works of congregation members, along with local, regional, national and international originators of sacred works.