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FAITH & PLAY STORIES

Our Stories 

In this section: 
  • Story Development
  • Published Stories
  • YouTube Channel
  • Spanish Translation and Global Sharing
  • Advices and Queries for Creating Stories 
  • Nurturing the Spirituality of Children

The Development of Faith & Play Stories
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“Faith & Play” refers to Quaker stories developed, tested and approved by the Faith & Play Group. Story development is deep work. Each story follows its own path, and the process cannot be hurried. When an individual member of the group finds that a story rises in them or they have a leading to contribute a story we have identified a need for, they bring the first draft to the group, and it is turned over to collaborative discernment and editing. We stay open to leadings and new insights and work together in relationship with our co-creators and with Spirit. The focus is on process and it can take months or years to write, revise, test and receive feedback, and develop materials for a story. The Faith & Play Group works on stories together when we can meet in person and during the times in between, we’re testing stories in circles of children and among Friends, gathering feedback from others, and listening for new openings about a story and its accompanying materials.

Faith & Play Stories are published by Quaker Press of FGC and carried by the online bookstore QuakerBooks. The 2017 second edition of “Faith & Play: Quaker Stories for Friends Trained in the Godly Play Method" was published with a generous grant from Obadiah Brown’s Benevolent Fund. 

New stories are always in the works! Stories have a way of choosing their own time to be born, and we are confident that when the time is right stories find their way to us.

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Published Stories in the Faith & Play Collection

​Stories of Quaker Faith and Practice:

Listening for God
     A story about different ways we sense God’s presence

Images of God
     A story about different ways Friends describe God

Prayer and Friends Meeting for Worship
     A story about Friends gathering as a community to listen for God

Friends Meeting for Business
     A story about meeting for worship with attention to business

Gifts
     A story about the gifts God gives each of us
Queries
     A story about the role of queries for early and present-day Quakers

Stories about the Testimonies:
Love’s Way
     A story about testimonies for younger children
Living the Ways of the Spirit
     A story about testimonies drawing on the life of Jesus
Let Your Life Speak
     A story for older children about the testimonies and what happens
​     when we live our lives guided by Spirit


Stories of Witness:
George Fox’s Big Discovery
     A story about a way God reveals Truth to us
Margaret Fell of Swarthmoor Hall
     An early Friend gives Quakerism a home
Mary Fisher Carries the Quaker Message Near and Far
     A story about an early Friend who lived in God’s love, power and
     peace

John Woolman, Gentle Abolitionist
     A Friend acts to end slaveholding by Quakers
John Woolman Visits the Indians at Wyalusing
     A Quaker risks a dangerous journey to visit people with lives very
     different from his

Elizabeth Fry and the Women of Newgate Prison
     How she saw people opened the door to prison reform

Other Stories for Friends:
An Easter Story for Friends
     
A story about the power of God’s love

Faith & Play on YouTube

Demonstrations of various stories by trained storytellers are being filmed and added to our YouTube Channel. 
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​Spanish Translation
and Sharing Faith & Play Around the World


In 2014, New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM) answered a call from Friends in Cuba to translate Quaker religious education materials into Spanish. Jugar llenos de fe ("to play full of faith") is the result of that accompaniment and a collaboration between Faith & Play Stories, the Puente de Amigos Committee (Bridge of Friends) between New England Yearly Meeting and Cuba Yearly Meeting, and the Friends World Committee for Consultation, with generous funding from Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund. The translation project led to travel and training to share Faith & Play and Godly Play among Friends in Cuba, Central America, and Latin America.

Download Jugar llenos de fe

​Workshops about Faith & Play have also been shared in the United Kingdom, Kenya, and Canada. S
elected Faith & Play Stories have been translated into German and are used in schools in Germany alongside Godly Play stories. Several other denominations in the US have adapted and share Faith & Play stories alongside Godly Play stories. ​

I have an idea for a story . . . What's my next step?  
We created
 "Advices and Queries for Creating Stories in the Manner of Faith & Play" to support Friends with this leading! We welcome working with Friends who have a leading to write and develop a story to be in relationship with us. Should you be inspired to experiment with this method and create and tell stories of your own, please be mindful that while they may be in the style of Godly Play and Faith & Play, neither label should be applied to them. (“Faith & Play” refers to Quaker stories developed, tested and approved by the Faith & Play Group. Godly Play® is a registered trademark and refers specifically to the curriculum developed by Jerome Berryman.) ​

Nurturing the Spirituality of Children with Caryl Menkhus Creswell, Godly Play Trainer and Friend
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