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Faith & Play Community Circles — Ongoing Support!

Faith & Play Community Circles — Ongoing Support!

by Melinda Wenner Bradley | May 16, 2025 | News, Trainings

“Faith & Play Community Circles” will be offered online every month, at different times to accommodate diverse schedules. These are opportunities for ongoing support, check-ins, and sharing our experiences!  There will be a resource shared each time,...
Playing in the Light hosted by First Friends Meeting (NC) June 27-29

Playing in the Light hosted by First Friends Meeting (NC) June 27-29

by Melinda Wenner Bradley | Apr 4, 2025 | News, Trainings

A “Playing in the Light” Godly Play/Faith & Play Training weekend for Friends hosted by First Friends Meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. June 27-29, 2025 with Trainer Melinda Wenner Bradley. Registration is open!

Playing in the Light hosted by First Friends Meeting (NC) June 27-29

Playing in the Light at Ben Lomond Quaker Center

by Melinda Wenner Bradley | Nov 24, 2024 | News, Trainings

A long weekend at Ben Lomond Quaker Center in California, August 29 – September 1. More information and registration will be shared here and on the Quaker Center website.

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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.