Faith & Play Stories

Faith & Play Stories provides a unique resource for Friends meetings and Friends schools to help nurture the spiritual lives of all ages through stories of Quaker faith, practice, and witness.

In September, with the support of a grant from the Thomas H. and Mary Williams Shoemaker Fund, Faith & Play Stories launched a two-year project designed to grow the organization and its reach. The “Finding Ourselves in the Story” project expands the administrative, communications, and development capacity needed to train more storytellers in Quaker meetings and Friends schools, mentor new trainers of storytellers, and publish additional stories. It also supports direct consultation with local meetings to help them reach out to families and include children in multigenerational spiritual communities.

In May, Friends from multiple meetings in New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania attended a “Playing in the Light” training. A second Philadelphia-region training took place in September.

Over the summer Friends shared Faith & Play stories at yearly meeting gatherings as part of children’s and intergenerational programs, as well as at the Quaker Spring gathering at Woolman Hill Retreat Center in Deerfield, Mass. In July, Faith & Play stories were used in a workshop at the Friends General Conference Gathering in Haverford, Pa. In August, ahead of the fall season, a virtual refresher session was hosted for Friends using Faith & Play and Godly Play; the recording is available on YouTube.

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