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“Calming Corner” Supports Children in Worship

“Calming Corner” Supports Children in Worship

by Melinda Wenner Bradley | May 8, 2025 | Blog, News

It all started with a picture and explanation about having a space for children to be children and be present in Meeting for Worship. I took photos of three potential spaces in our meeting room. I just kept looking at the pictures and thinking about what might work . . .

First Friends Meeting Shares Stories Across Generations

First Friends Meeting Shares Stories Across Generations

by Melinda Wenner Bradley | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, News, Stories

Talking with Lia Scholl, Godly Play/Faith & Play mentor and the pastor of First Friends in Greensboro, NC about how they are sharing stories in their children and youth programs as well as worship, and the impact on their multigenerational community.

“Gifts” Story: Grace in Shared Gratitude

“Gifts” Story: Grace in Shared Gratitude

by Melinda Wenner Bradley | Mar 18, 2025 | Blog, News, Stories

The Faith & Play story “Gifts” has been adapted and shared in creative ways, all of which highlight gratitude and connection in community. This blog post reflects on interdependence in the story and shares some of the expanded ways it has been used.

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Getting Started: Discernment of the Meeting Community

Interest in using Godly Play® and Faith & Play™ may come from parents, religious education committee members, or other Friends with care of children’s programs or spiritual formation. The meeting community should consider how they are able to support bringing this method into their religious education program, and sustaining it.

Considerations include:

  • Interest from meeting members in becoming trained storytellers and doorkeepers
  • Creation and cost of making materials for stories
  • How the content of the stories fits into the curricular choices of the meeting’s religious education program.

Parents in the community should be informed about:

  • How the method works
  • What kind of stories will be used
  • How they can support the program by wondering with their children at home all week long.

Depending on the size of the meeting and its children’s program, the community might need to discern their commitment to Godly Play and Faith & Play as a whole meeting community, or through the work of a religious education committee. It is helpful for the community as a whole to understand the unique “hows” and “whys” of using Godly Play and Faith & Play as storytelling approaches that invite silence, wonder, and continuing revelation into the meeting’s children’s program.