We are God's People: Stories of Faith for the Family of God
Performance Edition. Author: Betsy Beckman, Lisa von Stamwitz and Jeanne Cotter. Through this performance piece the prophetic voice of our children has a chance to be heard by the whole family of God. In this script we find children's own stories of faith woven together with song and gesture into a celebration of lie. These heart-felt stories and vignettes reflect children's experience of God, themselves, and their world. They are children's own words of struggle with grief, illness, divorce, and violence as well as expressions of joy in new life, hope, love, and reconciliation. Children present their stories in the form of readers' theater.
Performance Edition
Author: Betsy Beckman, Lisa von Stamwitz, and Jeanne Cotter
Publisher: Chicago: GIA Publications,
1996
Through this performance piece the prophetic voice of our children has a chance to be heard by the whole family of God. In this script we find children's own stories of faith woven together with song and gesture into a celebration of lie. These heart-felt stories and vignettes reflect children's experience of God, themselves, and their world. They are children's own words of struggle with grief, illness, divorce, and violence as well as expressions of joy in new life, hope, love, and reconciliation.
Children present their stories in the form of readers' theater. Their reflections are threaded together and connected to our larger Christian story through teh themes of the Psalms. These musical settings of the Psalms are texts from the Lectionary for Masses with Children. Prayerful gestures are joined to the communally sung refrains, offering perofrmers and audience members an opportunity to actively respond to teh rich message our children bear.
The stories provided are from children ages 3 to 17. Performers can vary in age, as well, or all be the same age and able to read. Included in this package is a tool taht can be used to gather reflections from chidlren in your own school or parish. Using this script as a flexible guide, new strories can be incoporated into this performance piece so that each celebration can reflect the unique life of your own community.
