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Lent is different than Advent or Christmas. But that's why we offer lots of different options-so you can adapt each play to your own setting.Īnother point fitting for the context is gearing each of your presentations in line with the season or time of year you're presenting.

Not every congregation or youth-group will respond to some of the über-snark that some of our playwrights inherently seem to be imbued with.

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One point that I stress with each of our plays we offer at is that after you download it, you can do what you want with it. It's difficult to give specific advice to this point, because every context is different. Remember your people! Know the stories and the history of where you serve. This should be a proclamation from Capitan Obvious I mention it because so many leaders forget the context in which they serve.

If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.” Walt Wangerin, one of our greatest expositors of scriptural stories today, said it best in his work, Paul: A Novel (here are the character Paul's own words): “Go back to the books. Put us at the edges of our seats, for crying out loud! After all, the stories in the Bible already do this-we simply miss the point how dramatic, engaging, intriguing, or humorous they are! Of course, there are loads of topics in the Bible that simply aren't conducive to silliness or triviality! Well then, go ahead and get serious-but do it well. The big reasons why I began Arches 'n Bells were that many of the resources already existing online for congregations weren't meeting two crucial needs-people want to be entertained (and that's okay!) and people in progressive faith communities want topics that reflect what's happening in real life. The amazing thing about doing this, is that using theater to teach-and it's bullseye-hitting power-has been known for some time! Immediately, I saw the value of using dramatic expressions to relay the stories in scripture. What I remember is that the fun (and the giggling) gushed out of the kids when the part came that both main characters '.were naked, and felt no shame.' I remember the two kids-a boy and a girl-both dancing around in a circle chanting, 'We're naked! We're naked! And we feel no shame!' (That part was the kids' own ad lib, by the way.) (Did you know there is more than one?)įor this skit, I chose to write it in a simple, easy-to-understand format-I just did a paraphrase of the second creation story of Adam and Eve. I used the second story of creation in Genesis. We had to spell out for the kids the basic tenets of God's continual act of creation. Just to illustrate to you how effective it was, I'll let you know that I still remember the plot line of that church play, and I recall perfectly how both the kids, and also the adults they performed it to, responded to it. But then I wrote a skit-a simple, wacky, fun, and informative skit. And kids' brains especially don't want to retain a fire-hose-gush of information. Worse yet, I've since found out that this experience is common! It has to do with how the brain works.

No amount of preparation I put into a Power Point slide seemed to capture the kids' attentions. It also didn't seem to matter if I presented the material in multimedia-in fact, it seemed to make it worse. Nothing I said or activities I encouraged them to undertake seemed to vanquish the stoicism from their expressions. had the look of supreme boredom embedded (carved, really) on their faces. I consider myself a fairly hip guy, and I can relay information with the best of any pastor out there, but every. No, it was far worse-they really didn't want to be there.

What I mean by that is not that the kids came from tough backgrounds or were unruly. In 2001, the confirmation class I was teaching was a tough group of kids.

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