I have started this blog because I'd like to be in conversation with others who are using Godly Play. When I come home from the flea market, thrilled to have found a doll-sized christening gown, I want to be able to post a picture here. And when I find out three hours before church that the venue I was planning to use had been booked for someone else, I want to be able to grouse a little here (although I've read enough blogs to know that I ought to be careful about posting while irked). I worry a little that my long-suffering partner is subjected to more than enough of my burble about junior church and Godly Play, so thought that this would be another good outlet for me. Besides, I want to share my friends and family some of what I've been doing.
A little background: I completed a three-day training course in Godly Play in late winter, 2010. Soon thereafter I led a one-day retreat for some adults in my congregation, held in a Godly Play classroom in a nearby town. Bit by big, I began "infiltrating" the junior church program with Godly Play stories and ideas. In some ways that was easy to do, because I was the junior church program! (We are a very small congregation.) In other ways it was hard to do, because we had no space to set aside for the children. But gradually, things are changing. And that's what I intend this blog to be about.
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