Description
Participants will learn about the use of biblical storytelling with children ages 2-6 yr old to foster foundational biblical literacy for formation.
Participants will team up to tell bible stories that are irresistable to children who will want to tell the stories over and over.
Participants will gather ideas and tools to tell stories with young children that honors their voice.
Early childhood years are foundational for language, socialization, and faith formation. Biblical Literacy is foundational faith formation and starts before one can read or write. What is biblical literacy and how do we help our children begin a lifelong joy of scripture and God’s messages of faith, hope, love, and courage.
What is Biblical Literacy? Part of the challenge of telling Bible stories with children is laying a foundation that honors the diverse storytelling voices in the Bible. Biblical Literacy is a partnership between the storyteller, the listener, and the Holy Spirit.
Based on her research for DMin studies on children, storytelling, and biblical literacy, Kat brings her 35+ years of ministry with the children of God of ALL ages to foster a conversation about faith formation with the youngest disciples. Bring your favorite early childhood moments and to dream of new ways of opening scripture for children in ways that create building blocks for faith formation and a lifetime joyful storytelling.
TOGETHER WE WILL: ASK, “How do we lay cornerstones that do not have to be nudged, nuanced, or just plain removed in later years?”
PRACTICE, Storytelling techniques will be explored with an emphasis on Dynamic Storytelling which honors the child’s voice and point of view.
REFLECT, On the purpose of telling stories from an oral tradition to an audience that is pre-academic.
USE, Building blocks to create stories that create storytellers honoring the voice of the text and the voice of the teller.
Workshop Leader: Kathryn “Kat” Green
Kat Green is a Certified CE is the Director of Children’s Ministry at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Maryland. She holds a M.Ed. in trauma informed teaching, MLiS in information science and learning technologies, and is Certified in Transformative Leadership and Teaching. Kat is passionate about holistic formation that is collaborative and cumulative for lifelong learners.
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