Choosing David
Watch and Wonder Heather West tells the story of David’s anointing from 1 Samuel 16. More to come on this post…stay tuned!
Kids Tell The Nicodemus Story!
Here is the video we filmed a few years ago! If you are interested in a family liturgy around this story–please visit Practicing Families!
Learn the Pentecost Story by Heart with #StoryonFire
The #StoryonFire Challenge Join others in learning the Pentecost story by heart! The #storyonfire series offers a step-by-step tutorial for learning Acts 2 for Pentecost. The best way to keep up will be via Facebook or Twitter. Follow @FaithandWonder on Twitter and use the hashtag #storyonfire to share your thoughts along the way. Sessions are short (1-5 minutes) and you can certainly choose to do more than one in a day. Whether your goal is to tell the story at home, to a friend,…
Episode 15: The Vine Abides
StoryDivine.com is experiencing technical difficulties–so enjoy this week’s podcast here! http://traffic.libsyn.com/storydivine/Episode_15_John_15.mp3 Easter 5B Casey FitzGerald tells John 15:1-11 Find the video story (along with storytelling ideas for all ages) from Acts 8:26-40 at Faith and Wonder (or just scroll down!) Come to the Festival Gathering of the Network of Biblical Storytellers this August! Find Jason Chesnut of The Slate Project HERE Tracy Radosevic, Storyteller, Dean of the Academy for Biblical Storytelling
The Ethiopian Eunuch
WATCH and WONDER Acts 8:26-40 as told by Casey FitzGerald A shorter TALE This is a longer story. You might want to start out with a smaller chunk of it to learn (especially any younger storytellers out there). Consider learning only this section: As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What would keep me from being baptized?” He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip…
He is RISEN! A Video for Easter
I have a lot of thoughts about this video, but for now, I’ll just leave it here for you. Blessings on this Easter. May you GO and TELL: HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN, INDEED!
Lent/Holy Week Stories!
Don’t forget to tune in to the special Holy Week series at StoryDivine.com! Here are links to the first two episodes! Episode 11.1: Memory Reboot http://traffic.libsyn.com/storydivine/Episode_11.1_Memory_Recovery_Holy_Week.mp3 Episode 11.2: Not I, Lord! http://traffic.libsyn.com/storydivine/Episode_11.2_Holy_Week.mp3 More Kid Videos! Here are our final “kid telling” for Lent…as well as a few previous ones! Thanks to my fabulous church for their telling skills! 🙂 If you’re interested in doing activities around this story, check out my “Family Liturgy” post at Practicing Families. The following videos were created by…
Nicodemus and the children: Lent 2 Stories and Stations
In case any of you are working on the RCL text this week–here are stations based on the FIRST HALF of Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus along with our kid telling! And check out Story Divine for a telling of the whole story! WATCH and WONDER Kids tell John 3:1-10, 16-17 This is a tricky story to have the kids tell–it’s hard for adults to understand! What I am learning from these experiences of putting the kids on video is that…
Worship Stations for Lent: Part 2
Last year I posted information on our worship stations for our Wednesday night Lenten suppers…but I posted them after they occurred. This meant I could tell you about the stations, what went well, what didn’t–and you could see pictures. This year the only pictures will be borrowed from other sites that have done the projects–my own photos to be inserted later! My thanks to my colleague Patty Chamberlain and our Children’s ministry team members for brainstorming with me! One final note–as these…
Worship Stations for Lent: Part 1
Last year I posted information on our worship stations for our Wednesday night Lenten suppers…but I posted them after they occurred. This meant I could tell you about the stations, what went well, what didn’t–and you could see pictures. This year the only pictures will be borrowed from other sites that have done the projects–my own photos to be inserted later! My thanks to my colleague Patty Chamberlain and our Children’s ministry team members for brainstorming with me! One final note–as these…