The Complete Guide to Godly Play: Revised and Expanded: Volume 2 - Softcover

Berryman, Jerome W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819233595 ISBN 13: 9780819233592

Verlag: Church Publishing, 2017

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Godly Play® is an imaginative approach to working with children, an approach that supports, challenges, nourishes, and guides their spiritual quest.

Revised and updated, The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 2 offers new concepts, new terminology, new illustrations, and a new structure that stem from more than 10 years of using Godly Play with children across the world. 30 to 40 percent of the text is new or revised, including a new lesson, revised Introduction, and a new full Appendix.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

The late Jerome W. Berryman was the founder of Godly Play and had years of experience working with children ages 2–18. Priest, writer, lecturer, and workshop leader, Berryman was, for years, Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He was the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, The Spiritual Guidance of Children, and Stories of God at Home.
 

The Rev. Cheryl V. Minor, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for the Theology of Childhood, the research and development arm of the Godly Play Foundation. For over 20 years, she has served as Co-Rector at the All Saints' Episcopal Church in Belmont, Massachusetts, where she is privileged to practice Godly Play with children ages three to thirteen. She is the author of Godly Play in Middle and Late Childhood. 

Rosemary Beales has been sitting in circles with children for nearly 30 years, including 12 years as chaplain and religion teacher to 400 children at an Episcopal school in Alexandria, Virginia. She received her DMin from Virginia Theological Seminary and is a licensed Godly Play Trainer and an Episcopal priest, currently serving in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
 

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The Complete Guide to Godly Play

Volume 2, Revised and Expanded

By Jerome W. Berryman

Church Publishing Incorporated

Copyright © 2017 Jerome W. Berryman
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8192-3359-2

Contents

Introduction, 
Orientation Session, 
Lesson 1 Circle of the Church Year, 
Lesson 2 The Holy Bible, 
Lesson 3 The Holy Bible Enrichment Lesson: The Books of the Bible, 
Lesson 4 The Holy Family, 
Lesson 5 Creation, 
Lesson 6 The Ark and the Flood, 
Lesson 7 The Great Family, 
Lesson 8 The Exodus, 
Lesson 9 The Ten Best Ways, 
Lesson 10 The Ark and the Tent, 
Lesson 11 The Ark and the Temple, 
Lesson 12 The Exile and Return, 
Lesson 13 The Prophets, 
Lesson 14 The Prophet Jonah, 
Appendix A: The Foundational Literature for Godly Play, 
Appendix B: The Spiral Curriculum for Godly Play, 

CHAPTER 1

Lesson 1

Circle of the Church Year

How the Church Tells Its Story

How to Use This Lesson

• Core Presentation

• Liturgical Action Lesson: lessons about sacraments or traditions of the church, which primarily use ritual and symbol to make meaning

• As the first lesson in Volume 2 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, it is usually presented at the beginning of the program year, or alternative at the beginning of the liturgical year (the first Sunday in Advent).

• It is part of a comprehensive approach to Christian formation that consists of eight volumes. Together the lessons form a spiral curriculum that enables children to move into adolescence with an inner working knowledge of the classical Christian language system to sustain them all their lives.

The Material

• Location: Focal shelves

• Pieces: Circle of the Church Year Wall Hanging and Circle of the Church Year Presentation Set

• Underlay for Presentation Set: A neutral-colored three foot by two foot (about one meter by half a meter) rug or piece of felt.

Background

This lesson sets the context for the whole year. Each year, the Christian people move through a circle of memory and expectation to open themselves to the elusive presence of God. Moving through this circle is how the Church tells its story. In the Godly Play room, we pay attention to this circle of movement each week and therefore it is recommended that you begin each program year with this lesson.

This lesson uses the Circle of the Church Year Presentation Set, which includes a circular frame, fifty-two removable colored blocks, and a gold cord or ribbon.

You will also use the Circle of the Church Year Wall Hanging, which has colored cloth "blocks" for the Sundays of the year plus Christmas Day and a golden arrow that moves from Sunday to Sunday (block to block). From now on, begin each class by inviting a child to go to this wall hanging and move the golden arrow to the current Sunday (check the wall hanging before class to make sure that when the child moves the arrow to the next block, it will point to the right Sunday). This invites children to move through the Church's special kind of time, marked not by numbers but by blocks of color. The wall hanging should be hung low enough on the wall so the children can move the arrow as suggested.

Notes on the Material

In the Circle of the Church Year Presentation Set is a circle, about one foot (about thirty centimeters) in diameter, made from wood. Colored wooden blocks fit in a ring to mark each Sunday of the liturgical year, as well as the day of Christmas. Three arrow-shaped hands of this "clock" point to the three great times of the Church year. If you buy only one ready-made material from Godly Play Resources, we recommend that it be this one. Accurately cutting out these blocks is a difficult job.

You will use the gold cord or ribbon (about three feet [or approximately one meter] long) to show how time can be "in a line." This cord needs to be flexible and small enough to curl up inside your fist.

You will use a small neutral colored rug or piece of felt as an underlay. This helps the children focus on the lesson. In most Godly Play rooms, there is a basket of "work rugs" that the children use during response time. These can work well if they are neutral colors. If not, you should have a piece of felt cut for this purpose.

Traditions about the use of color for feast days or liturgical seasons vary greatly, even within denominations. As you order the material or prepare this lesson, please adjust as needed to match the colors actually used in your church.

Special Notes

Adapting the lesson to your setting

Godly Play stories were first written in the Northern Hemisphere. The Circle of the Church Year lesson is linked with the seasonal weather, movements of the sun, and the school year. For those who live in the Southern Hemisphere or near the Equator in tropical climates, it is necessary to adjust the script to your environment. Judyth Roberts, a Godly Play Trainer in Australia, uses these guidelines in training sessions for Godly Play Australia:

Think about where you live and what is happening at that time of the year. A sense of place is important. Are there signals in nature that can be noted? Do rains come or stop? Does it become lighter and the days get longer? Are there trees or flowers that are striking? Is it harvest time? Or summer school holidays? Using three or four sentences, summarize the changes that happen as Advent approaches.

Here is an example of how Roberts adapts the lesson:

Here are the rest of the green and growing Sundays. Winter comes and the days are shorter and colder. Then, as spring comes, the days grow longer, there is more light, and it gets warmer. The cicadas are noisy. The jacarandas drop flowers, making a purple carpet under the trees. It is holiday time, and it's time to get ready for the mystery of Christmas.

MovementsWords

      Now watch carefully.
      Here is the rug we
      need for this lesson.

Get up from your
position in the circle and
carefully cross the room to
get a rug or to get the felt
underlay you will use for the
lesson. Pick up a rug with
attentive care.

Bring the rug to the
circle, and roll it out just as
carefully and lovingly as you
would like the children to do.
This is especially important
for children younger than
eight years old.

      Watch where I go now to get the
      lesson.

Get up and walk around
the room in search of the
lesson. Reaching back and
pulling it off the shelf isn't
dramatic enough to catch the
children's attention. Help
them remember where to find
this story.

      Hm. It's not where the Sacred
      Stories are. It's not where
      the Parables are. Ah,
      here it is! This is the
      lesson about the
      Circle of the Church Year.

Sit down in the circle
with the rug in front of you.
Place the material to your
side. As you do so, pick up the
gold cord and enclose it in
your...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Church Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0819233595
• ISBN 13: 9780819233592
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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