Friday, March 18, 2005
Performance Ministry discussion
We all seem to agree that some kind of Family Theater production is something that is working great for family ministries at places like Willow and Northpoint and that we'd like to do something similar here. So, what are the pros and cons of adopting someone else's "product" versus creating our own? What's our short term and long term thoughts on this? What can we do now and is that any different than what we see on the 3-5 year horizon?
4 comments:
Personally, at least in the long term, I think that we'll want to write our own material in order to provide that consistancy across all ministries. The bigger question to me is in the short term, given resource constraints (people) is that really something we could pull off on a weekly basis? Or, do we develop something "in house" on a less frequent basis (monthly or bi monthly), or do we use 252 basics until we are better equipped to write our own material? I think that a great way for us to learn what goes into it, is to try it once. What if we committed to just one "full scale" production of our own version of 252 basics? That would cause us to think through and prepare for all the stuff that goes into a production and then we could determine if the result justifies the effort. Just an idea - what do you all think?
Ooh, sorry. I may need some help here, but I think the 252 basics is the curriculum that Northpoint incorporates across its childrens' programs. It is based on 3 basic truths (I need to make the wise choice. I can trust God no matter what. I should treat others the way I want to be treated.) Each Basic Truth is amplified by a weekly key concept and systematically taught over a three-year track. The curriculum includes 150 Bible stories and is based on a Core Virtue and Memory Verse as the framework for each month. The curriculum spans both the upstreet small group environment and is re-enforced in the kidstuf production. Music (related to each core virtue) is also part of the cirriculum. Jamie and Dinese may be able to elaborate. Also you can check out the site at http://www.252basics.com
I believe that we currently subscribe and have the curriculum available to us.
PS - an interesting note - Reggie told us that they were asked by a secular school to adapt it to a secular environment. Of course they had to keep it from being "churchy" but it still stresses the same virtues. They took the challenge and the adapted version is in 1200 schools.
Spend some time reading the material on their website. It's brief and to the point - good stuff.
Ha! Ya know if it was in a book - I'd be hard pressed to pick anything up, but for some reason if it's on the web - I'm all over it - an absolute web junkie.
I may need a support group...
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There's been a lot mentioned about the "drama team" - who is that? What do they do and who's in charge?
My thought is that we've kinda been building a childrens' theatrical group - maybe these two groups need to merge - or do they? I dunno.
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