Training - Connecting our stories with God’s story
You can use the following exercise to start a training session on how to be a Bible storyteller.
Storytelling is an important tool for teachers to use when working with children. It helps to develop a child's imagination, language skills, and understanding of the world around them. By listening to Bible stories, children learn about God's dealings with people, but also about emotions, and experiences, which helps them to develop empathy and understanding of others. Storytelling also helps children to develop their listening and comprehension skills, which are essential. Additionally, storytelling is a fun and engaging way for children to learn, which helps to keep them motivated and interested in learning. Overall, storytelling is a powerful tool for teachers to use in order to help children learn and grow.
You can use the following exercise to help the children’s workers connect their own faith story with the Bible story that they are going to tell.
Themes: Storytelling, Bible stories, training other children’s workers, finding teaching points.
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What you need:
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three strips of paper for each children's worker
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pens
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staplers
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you can download and print the instructions below
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Three stories...
Give each of the children’s workers a stapler and three strips of paper. Ask them to write “Bible story” on the first strip of paper, “My story” on the second strip of paper, “Child’s story” on the third strip of paper.
Question: how can we connect these three stories together?
Ask the children’s workers to staple the three strips of paper together.
Some thoughts
There is a big danger that when we are telling Bible stories we forget to connect our own faith story with the story in the Bible. Just look at the different children in your group. How many adults will share their own faith story with them? Not just the great victories, but maybe also the waiting on an answer that they have asked God for, maybe their struggles, their experiences with God. How can we teach children that God isn’t Someone who did wondrous things two thousand years ago? How can children know what it means to walk with God in all honesty, if we as children’s worker don’t honestly share our own daily walk with God?
Find a story from your own life to share
In the previous exercise you wrote down the most important teaching point / sentences for you in the Bible story you were preparing. Which story from your own life can you share with the children that connects with this teaching point?
Exercise:
- Write this short story from your own life down in a few key words.
- Ask the children’s workers to divide into pairs.
- Let people share the teaching point they have chosen, combined with their own story in pairs.
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