Godly Play: 20 Core Presentations for Spring

Welcome to The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 4.

In this volume Jerome Berryman has gathered together the presentations that form the suggested cycle of lessons for Spring. If we leave out the respectful experiences of scripture, we risk trivializing the Christian way of life. We also miss out on the profound fun of existential discovery, a kind of "fun" that keeps us truly alive. In this volume you'll find all the information you need to present the spring lessons of Godly Play. The simple format of the lessons presented in The Complete Guide to Godly Play will enable all teachers, whether new or experienced, to find the information they need to enter fully into the most rewarding play we share: Godly Play.

What's inside Volume 4: 20 Presentations for Spring?

All the information you need to present the lessons of Spring to the children in your Godly Play Room.

• Enrichment Lesson: The Holy Family
• Lesson 1: The Mystery of Easter
• Lesson 2: The Faces of Easter I
• Lesson 3: The Faces of Easter II
• Lesson 4: The Faces of Easter III
• Lesson 5: The Faces of Easter IV
• Lesson 6: The Faces of Easter V
• Lesson 7: The Faces of Easter VI
• Lesson 8: The Faces of Easter VII
• Enrichment Lesson: The Crosses
• Enrichment Lesson: Easter Eggs
• Lesson 9: Jesus and the Twelve
• Lesson 10: The Good Shepherd and World Communion
• Lesson 11: The Synagogue and the Upper Room
• Lesson 12: Circle of the Holy Eucharist
• Enrichment Lesson: Symbols of the Holy Eucharist
• Lesson 13: The Mystery of Pentecost
• Lesson 14: Paul's Discovery
• Lesson 15: The Holy Trinity
• Enrichment Lesson: The Part That Hasn't Been Written Yet

Jerome W. Berryman is the founder of Godly Play and has wide experience working with children ages 2-18. Writer, lecturer and workshop leader, Rev. Berryman is Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, and The Spiritual Guidance of Children: Montessori, Godly Play and the Future. Cheryl V. Minor is the Director of the Center for the Theology of Childhood, the academic/publishing arm of the Godly Play Foundation. For the past eighteen years she has served as Co-Rector at The Parish of All Saints' Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. With a degree in Music Education from Boston University, an M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Northcentral University in Scottsdale, AZ, her dissertation examined the impact of Godly Play on the spiritual well-being of children. Dr. Minor is also a Godly Play Trainer and has been deeply involved in designing the Godly Play Foundation's training models. Rosemary Beales is Chaplain to the Lower School at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a practitioner and trainer in the Godly Play method of religious education with a DMin from Virginia Theological Seminary. The Rev. Beales is a former journalist and currently serves as priest associate at St. Paul's in Alexandria and St. Alban's in Annandale, Virginia.