As we prepare for week Godly Play week three I realized I needed to get a week two post up. Last week we did 'The Flood and the Ark'. My husband, Mav, was the storyteller. (We have decided to alternate weeks.) Above you see the material. I bought the set, a vintage toy that Mav actually had as a child, on Etsy.
We had 16 adults and children join our circle this week. Three of the children are under 2 and we anticipate them having difficulty sitting. Last week I let everyone know that the youngest children might get up and make noise. Reminding (and encouraging) everyone else that they are old enough to sit and listen. This week we had two other arks outside of the circle to help with the youngest wanting to touch the story material. This is an issue we continue to prepare for each week because it is very important to us that everyone feel welcome.
Godly Play is the tool we use in order to give the Spirit room to work within all. Along side of this we aim to be hospitable in offering ourselves and our home. It is my belief that a person quite often needs to experience true belonging in order to grow. My hope is for each person to feel they absolutely belong within our 'circle', which in our case is also our home.
We are fortunate to live close to a center for Godly Play training. If you are unable and would still like to use Godly Play I encourage you to do it. I recommend reading Teaching Godly Play and the presentation books in The Complete Guide to Godly Play. We are working out of volume 2 but we began with Volume 3 because we used GP for Advent last year.
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