Artist Bio

For every piece of art created, there is a story. For every story told, there is an author. For Fellowship Creative–a collective of like-minded artists collaborating on music organically grown out of a Scriptural teaching and the grit of everyday life—their story begins and ends with the Church. Their unique narrative is told on label debut Running To Follow (Fair Trade Services), an album introducing a distinct blend of sights and sounds to both the Christ follower and the seeker.  The framework for the collective was formed in 1990, when Pastor Ed Young set out to build a church driven by creativity. With a group of only 150 individuals, Fellowship Church was born. Today, the church averages more than 20,000 attendees weekly. In addition to a main campus in Grapevine, Texas, Fellowship Church has additional locations in Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, Fla. and London, England.  The church has become an innovative leader in using multimedia and the arts to engage people with the Gospel, and their communication efforts are shaped by a core team of individuals who also guide Fellowship Creative. Spread across multiple campuses, these leaders are in charge of a variety of expressive mediums, including video, graphic design, web and music. However, Fellowship Creative is more than a group of individuals. It’s a movement. The art is a natural extension of life-change, and transformation is a genuine by-product of art, producing a fluid cycle where it’s difficult to distinguish where one ends and the other begins. Every song, every video, every expression has a story behind it—and that story begins with who Jesus is and what He does in people’s lives.  “Without Fellowship Church, there’s no Fellowship Creative,” says leader Derric Bonnot. “Our pastor started our church with a vision to use creativity to help people, regardless of their religious background, to discover the Bible’s relevance to their lives and to lead them into a relationship with Jesus. There’s no better fuel for a song than seeing life-change and being a part of it.” Bonnot, like many who find a home at Fellowship Church, didn’t grow up in church and had little context for the Bible when he started attending Fellowship as a 14-year-old kid. His love of music and guitar was fostered at church, and he soon met God there.  “It was the creativity that drew [my family] in,” he explains. “We now want our lives and our creativity to reach those who haven’t shown up yet.”  Fellowship Creative’s main objective, is preparing for a life-changing weekend experience. “We believe the church should be the most creative entity on the face of the planet,” Bonnot offers. “We want to create the most creative weekend experience possible for the person who’s showing up, because it could be the one hour in their entire life that they give Jesus a shot.”