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Join us for a day of Freedom for the Soul
Play for the Mind
and a Feast for the Body as we anticipate Lent.
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2018 Core Training Dates
There are three days of Godly Play training scheduled for 2018
at Nashwaaksis United Church, NB.
Saturday, March 24 (8:30-5:30) Module A – Sacred Stories and Creating Sacred Environments. NOTE: Storm date for Module A is Saturday, April 14th.
Saturday, April 21 (8:30-5:30) Module B – Parables and the Spirituality of the Child.
Saturday, May 5 (8:30-5:30) Module C – Liturgical Action Stories and the Community of Children.
Registration is limited – a minimum of 12 participants is required for the program. Applications will be received on a “first come, first serve” basis. Your space is not confirmed until FULL payment is received.
READ MORE about Module Training and Core Training here and BEGIN THE APPLICATION here : Godly Play Core Training.
Do you have questions? Email Registrar
Our Newest Godly Players
Throughout the Fall of 2015 and during three days in April, five Godly Play modules were offered and 15 participants were involved in training and refresher days. Here they are doing big work. (continue reading to see pictures)
Refugees – A Godly Play Inspired Story
Love is Stronger than Fear
by Mora MacDonald
Mora is an elementary School Counselor and Godly Play Canada Storyteller at Sackville United Church, Sackville New Brunswick. She wrote this story when her church decided to sponsor a Refugee family to help children understand who a refugee is and consider how God might want us to live with refugees.
Script is written. Movements are in brackets.
Watch where I go to get this story so you will know where to go to find it. (Talk lower, but clear enough so the children can hear you as you find the pieces you need around the room.) I need that last card of creation, the Holy Family card from our Christmas story, a candle, some people of God, the 10 best ways heart. Hmmm… anything else?? Of course, the desert box. And I brought some things I had at home in this basket. Continue reading
New Maritime Trainers
Congratulations to Nigel Weaver and Cathy Laskey! They recently travelled to Toronto for Godly Play Training of Trainers. We welcome them and look forward to their continued leadership in Godly Play.
Godly Play Core Training 2017 Registration
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT GODLY PLAY CORE TRAINING
We completed training in April 2016.
We will announce new Core Training dates in the future. If you are interested in taking Core Training, please contact our Registrar. This will help determine the next location.
Godly Play Goes to the Nursing Home
By Anne Pirie
It started with a conversation.
My friend, Elsie MacDonald, shared her hope of maintaining meaningful connections with seniors who could no longer attend worship. I talked of offering Godly Play for adults. What could be done? We read about Lois Howard’s ministry with elderly persons in a nursing home. A phrase leapt out: “to be a loving, accepting presence to often forgotten people”*. Elsie described aspects of her pastoral visits with seniors: remembering their names, physical touch, speaking tenderly, listening, hugs, giving attention.
Godly Play at the Drew Nursing Home
Hmmm…a loving presence: that is what we wanted to be. Godly Play offered a way.
Getting ready: I wonder how a nursing home is like a parable.
