Contemporary Spiritual Arts Ministries
THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY OF CSA
Ministering to Children in the Republic of the Philippines
The newest facet of CSA Ministries was created in 2007 when we first cared for approximately one dozen children in need in the Philippines. CSA provides housing, clothing, food, and education to all the children it supports. In 2010, there were fifteen children who received this care in two different provinces of the Philippines. By 2020, the Ministry was assisting more than 20 children in different provinces of the Philippines and continues with assistance to date. In December 2021 Super Typhoon Rai (known as Odette in the Philippines), struck Siargao Island destroying 90% of the homes in Barangay Sayak, leaving children without any protection from the weather. In 2022, I raised $25,000 and delivered roofing, plywood and nails to replace roofs and walls in 250 homes to protect children and their parents from the inclement elements.
Ministering to Ministers
Spiritual Wellness Retreats/Advances were offered to New Thought Ministers and their spouses in a beautiful Caribbean setting.
CSA served as a support and advocate for New Thought Ministers and their spouses who were experiencing Professional, Spiritual, Emotional or Personal Crisis. We offered Spiritual Wellness Retreats where we cared for the caregivers. Retreats were specifically designed to fit the individuals needs. Housing and counseling were provided free of charge. All retreats included nurturing, communication (listening and sharing), education, empowerment, planning, contemplative time and love.
CSA Founder and Executive Director Roy Fisher suggests this: You can't give away something you haven't got, even if you once had it. Our retreats bring ministers back to a focused place where they can best serve others.
CSA's Caribbean Retreats were funded personally by Rev. Fisher and through tax-deductible contributions from individuals, corporations, churches, other religious institutions and foundations. Contemporary Spiritual Arts is a non-profit, tax exempt organization. A scholarship fund was available to assist ministers and spouses attend the Retreats. All retreat costs were covered by CSA.
The times are definitely a changing in the world of organized religion, says Rabbi Matthew Michaels, Southwest Regional Chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis that comes to the needs of Rabbis in need of support, advocacy and guidance. Both clergy and laity must recognize this reality and and work together to insure a more healthy, spiritual connectedness. Thank God, the clergy finally realized what they have preached for years. God helps those that help themselves. Our individual mental, emotional and spiritual growth depends on our ability and willingness to see the human frailties in others as well as ourselves, and to know with certainty that all of us are created in the Divine Image.
Ministering to Inmates, Former Offenders and Volunteers
CSA served as an advocate and Spiritual Advisor teaching Spiritual Principles and Affirmative Prayer. We are affiliated with COPE (Congregation & Offenders Partnership Enterprise).
CSA made a beneficial contribution, and difference in the lives of Inmates and Former Inmates while offering various community congregation's members the opportunity to experience joy through service. We offered emotional, physical, educational, and spiritual support to those currently in prison.
In 1993, Rev. Roy began serving as an advocate and Spiritual Advisor for prison inmates. Through his work with these individuals, he taught them spiritual principles and affirmative prayer. CSA worked with COPE (Congregational & Offender Partnership Enterprise to assist newly released inmates to re-enter the community. Rev. Roy was a Team Leader in the COPE Organization. The teams worked with the former offenders by creating community while assisting them in their re-entry process. Project COPE has initiated partnerships with 180 former offenders. The effectiveness of the project can be measured by a reduction of recidivism from near 80% for offenders in general to 14% for COPE Graduates who complete the one-year program and 30% for COPE dropouts who complete one-half of the program.
The real story of Project COPE, however, cannot be told with numbers; it can be only be known through the lives of real people who have been touched. There is no way to measure to what extent the love, acceptance, and support offered by a COPE Partnership Team affected a former offender as well as the effect on the volunteers of the support team. Project COPE volunteers make a positive difference in a life, enriching the entire community. Team members will tell you they receive as much as they give.
Ministering to 12 Step Program Participants
We are committed to assisting individuals who are willing to turn their lives over to their Higher Power, and take responsibility for their lives. Using the modalities of individual counseling and workshops, we primarily focus on AA's Steps 4 and 11.
Step 4: Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of Ourselves.
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
The Twelve Step Program is a way of life for CSA's President and Founder, Rev. Roy Fisher. Rev. Roy Fisher is a recovered alcoholic. Since 1984, he has been free of self-inflicted bondage brought on by the consumption of alcohol and other drugs. Diagnosed twice in the early nineties with terminal cancer, he has been completely cancer-free since 1996. Rev. Roy gives much credit for his good health to meditative and spiritual principles learned and practiced while recovering from alcoholism and his journey, as he became a New Thought minister.
For over 35 years, Rev. Roy has counseled and mentored recovering men and women in various twelve-step programs. Rev. Roy has facilitated Twelve Step Workshops and Retreats throughout the US and Internationally. Each workshop is based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and focuses primarily on the Fourth and Eleventh Steps. During the workshop, Rev. Roy assists individuals in breaking patterns of denial, becoming honest with themselves, and developing effective and purposeful daily contact with their higher power as they learn to accept personal responsibility for their lives. Besides being filled with love, each workshop is filled with purposeful contemporary spiritual music.
Ministering to Musicians and other Artists
In addition to the same retreat opportunities we provided for New Thought Ministers, CSA offered a wide range of support and services including mentoring, networking, and spiritual advancement through classes and counseling.
CSA is dedicated to bringing the message of "Oneness" to the world through Contemporary Spiritual Music and Art. Through music and art, the message of spirituality is powerfully delivered. Music and visual arts can dissolve perceived boundaries into a community of oneness and unity. Organizations, with their unique identities and structures, unknowingly set restrictions, whereas the visual arts and music gently open the heart.
CSA Ministries provided education in spiritual principle, mentoring, and scholarships to artists while also providing churches and centers with creative services to assist in building their spiritual communities through the message delivered by the artists. CSA offered a Spiritual Retreat/Advance Center for renewal and spiritual enlightenment in a beautiful Caribbean Resort Setting that was for centuries home to the lost Mayan Civilization. Retreat Costs, excluding airfare, were covered by CSA.