Encouraging the use of creativity in
Christian faith contexts

Zenos Media is an Australian not-for-profit charity that promotes, supports and encourages the use of creativity in Christian faith contexts.

What’s in a name?

Zenos Media is a name derived from the Greek word Xenos which means stranger. It is used in passages such as Matthew 25 where Jesus says that welcoming a ‘stranger’, ‘a fellow disciple’ is like welcoming him. The heart of our initiative is to invite fellow disciples to a space where they can both be served and serve others with the creative gifts they have been given by God.

  • Encouraging the use of creativity in Christian faith contexts.

  • We value:

    - The creative arts as an important aspect of faith expression.

    - The talents and expertise of creative professionals.

    - Creative works as genuine expressions of the Bible.

    - Growth in the Creative Arts Industry.

    - Creative expression as a way of developing community and promoting understanding of God, oneself, others and the world.

  • Zenos Media encourages the creative arts by supporting artists, encouraging faith communities to engage with the creative arts and by creating new creative works.

    Zenos Media advances religion by encouraging the creative expression of the Christian faith.

The concept for Zenos Media arose when a group of creatives got together and recognised that there are needs within the Christian creative arts landscape in Australia that someone could do something about! For example, they recognised that there have been:

  • limited opportunities for Australian creative professionals to work on and/or collaborate in meaningful ways on faith-based projects,

  • limited avenues for ministry leaders and teachers to find and appropriately licence creative Australian content; and

  • needs for more creative initiatives that encourage and celebrate the use of creative art forms in faith contexts.

Why are we here?

What are we up to?

Our journey has been a long and slow one but we are excited in the steps we have taken in recent times.
We have now become a not-for-profit charity in order to more faithfully pursue the goal of encouraging the creative arts in the Christian sphere AND we are excited to announce our first major initiative, the Zenos Kids app, will be live from 2025.

We have also been redeveloping our website so that it will more effectively host digital content. The new website will be more user friendly, enable contributors to manage their own content and also provide a more powerful search tool tailor made to search for content related to specific Bible verses and themes.

Christian Beliefs

We are a non-denominational organisation whose beliefs are shaped on the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We believe the Bible is God’s word, through which he reveals His truth and guides and transforms us. We uphold the Nicene Creed and the Apostle’s Creed as an articulation of our core beliefs.