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This anthology of holiday material provides you with a complete collection of resources for drama, worship, and young people. It includes a wide range of resources from across the denominational spectrum. Copying privileges are included for all six segments. Come! See What God Has Done is a Thanksgiving children's event designed to heighten awareness of God's many blessings. Six learning centers -- each including posters, projects, a guided experience, follow-up activities, and a closing prayer -- focus on such topics as families, nature, our religious heritage, and our bodies. Intended for kindergarten through sixth grade, this is an ideal activity for your church school and can be held dur...
Begin your celebration of the Advent season with this meaningful program that weaves together informative readings, scripture, and familiar hymns with the lighting of the Advent wreath and the "hanging of the greens." It's a wonderfully creative way to have members of the congregation participate in decorating the sanctuary while at the same time learning about the symbols of the season. A particularly special touch is the interpretive movement provided for "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." The service requires four readers as well as individuals or groups to place the various items. While it is most appropriate for use in its entirety early in the season, An Advent Worship Service may also be exc...
Anthology of Dramas and Scripts for all Seasons and Reasons is a collection of dramas, skits, readings, and programs which can be used by churches, small groups, or individuals for seasonal presentations, general promotions, instructional guides and programs, or for reading enjoyment. It includes full-length dramas, short stories, readers' theaters, general interest articles, puppet dramas, and poems for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Anytime for adults and children. If you have any questions and/or feedback, feel free to email me at: eulonda@mchsi.com or ead61822@gmail.com
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Here is a resource that will dramatize the lighting of the Advent candles during your worship service. The lighting of each candle is proceeded by a statement, which the author suggests may be read from offstage. The series of statements reveal the significance of the traditional Advent characters: the angel, the shepherds, the wisemen, Mary and the Christ Child. This simple but dramatic resource provides an explanation of the deeper meaning of the events preceding Jesus' birth, as they spell out the relationship of these individuals to Christ, the Light of the World. Wayne L. Tilden has served as a Minister of Drama and Instructor of Music and Drama at various seminars. He is the founder of "The Salt and Light Company," a drama ministry. He holds the Master of Divinity degree from American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California. Tilden is also the author of Letters From Bethlehem, a series of dramatic monologues for Advent (CSS Publishing Company).
A probing but clearly written book, Calendar will find an appreciative audience beyond academia and clergy to the laity of the church: choirs and their directors, worship planners, adult study groups, and others who want to understand better the church's times of preparation and celebration. Calendar centers largely on theological meaning and parish practice in relation to liturgical time. Deliberately, almost no attention is given to detailed historical development, much of which is exceedingly complex in its origins and technical in its detail. An appendix entitled "Forgetting What You Were Always Taught (Or, This Book in a Nutshell)" aptly describes the radical reordering that Stookey believes occurs when our understanding of time and the story of Jesus takes its bearings from the Incarnation. So, just as the Christian week begins with Sunday, the day of Resurrection, Stookey follows the Christian year beginning with the season of Easter, and only then Lent; Christmas, then Advent. Illuminating discussions of Ordinary and Extraordinary Time, and the Sanctoral Cycle follow.
Centering around the theme of the familiar song "The Friendly Beasts," this intriguing program depicts what the animals who witnessed Jesus' birth might really have been thinking -- if they had human minds. There's humorous interplay among camels, sheep, cows, and the donkey that carried the pregnant Mary as they share their unique perspective on the nativity. This complete presentation allows many different parts of the congregation to participate; speaking roles can be performed in a readers' theater format by adults or youth, young children can portray the humans at the manger in a silent tableau, and musical selections allow the choir to be involved, as well. This adaptable drama can be ...