Godly play

Free YouTube video lesson to help teach Godly Play "Listening for God" ideas with an emphasis on listening and gratitude for gifts of creation using the senses

Resources from both Godly Play and Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for introducing parables.

On July 29-31, I attended the Godly Play Core Training at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland. Those of us participating all learned a great deal about helping children with their religious formation. At the same time, the training was a spiritual retreat and an opportunity for everyone involved to grow in faith and personal insight.

This Sunday one of the four year olds in my Godly Play group wanted to choose the “Sea of Galilee” for her work. We have been telling the stories from Sonja Stewart’s Following Je…

Hands-on Bible activities create a pathway to engage the curious absorbent minds and busy hands of preschool and kindergarten children in fun and meaningful play. Even toddler children will enjoy open…

At the beginning of this school year, I was given a new position with a larger church in Berlin that is planting a new congregation in the area where I live. The new congregation has a weekly children's service as well as the original congregation, and I was asked to help both congregations implement Godly Play into their services. I was very excited about this new opportunity, because, for one thing, I needed a new challenge at this point in life and sensed that God had something new for…

We have been on a Godly Play journey for about a year and I am loving it. I knew that even though I had read extensively on the Godly Play approach that I needed to go to a training to fill in the…

A variety of lesson ideas and activities for using Godly Play to present the Parable of the Sower at home or church.

Godly Play

Helping very young children to wonder younger requires some adaptations to the traditional mode of Godly Play storytelling.