Music & Worship Arts Week (MWAW) is a multi-generational event hosted by The Fellowship of Worship Artists in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina at Lake Junaluska. This annual event is designed for worship leaders, musicians, artists, dancers, actors, and pastors of all denominations who seek education and renewal in a spirit of inclusivity and grace. ​All are welcome.

MWAW offers participants the opportunity to work with and learn from renowned leaders in the fields of worship arts, make new friends and reconnect with colleagues, be renewed in a beautiful setting, and worship daily in creative and inspiring ways. Music & Worship Arts Week has been described as "one of the most palpable examples of God's artistic gifts at work," and draws people back year after year for new experiences, and then sends them home with endless resources and inspiration.

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Our Music & Worship Arts Week 2027 theme is Feast and Fire: An Eastertide Journey to Pentecost.

Fed at the Table. Formed in Love. Fired by the Spirit.

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The risen Christ could have chosen any way to be revealed. Christ could have arrived in triumph or with power impossible to deny. Instead, the Risen One chose bread… chose fire… chose a breath of peace... chose a familiar shore and a breakfast shared among friends… chose us.

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Again and again, the Easter stories return to these simple gifts: bread broken open, fish shared beside a charcoal fire, a table where weary disciples discover that Christ is already waiting for them. There, in ordinary things made holy, the disciples find both restoration and re-commissioning.

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Most of us no longer bake bread from grain we have gathered or kindle fires from wood we have carried. Yet our ancestors in faith understood what it meant to gather around food and flame. They knew that tables create community and that fires draw people close. They knew that resurrection was not merely something to believe, but something to be shared!

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The story of Easter did not end at the empty tomb, and the Risen Christ continued to appear: at tables, along roadsides, on the shoreline, in gathered communities of faith. So next year, we will gather at Lake Junaluska to journey from Easter morning's astonishment to the dancing flame of Pentecost. Using lectionary texts for Eastertide 2028, we will reflect on the practices that sustain faith, the relationships that shape discipleship, and the Spirit who continues to send ordinary people into the world bearing extraordinary grace.

So come hungry. Come hopeful! Come ready to gather around the feast and tend the fire.

Together, we will be fed at the table, formed in love, and fired by the Spirit!

 At every point throughout the week, you will find yourself surrounded by people who are passionate about creating transformative worship, and uplifting others as they do the same. Ours is a community that grows each year, creating new networks and opportunities to learn from each other and to support one another as the world continues to shift around us. With the exception of rehearsal groups which depend on your attendance to prepare for the concerts, Music & Worship Arts Week is a choose your own adventure event. You will receive from it as much as you choose to take, and you will strengthen our Fellowship by joining us.

Whether you've been coming to Music & Worship Arts Week for decades, haven't been able to join us for a few years, or are brand new to The Fellowship and all that we offer, keep scrolling for an overview of what the week holds for you! We hope to see you at Lake Junaluska, June 21 - 25, 2027!