Integrating storytelling with ministry and mission to produce learning environments that are conducive to inductive thinking and self-reflection. Interaction through storytelling can be kinesthetic, tactile, and experiential, creating self-directed models for education and awareness. Students will examine how Jesus used storytelling as the primary model of communication in his ministry and why it was so effective
Students will learn theory, technique, and skills associated with authentic and intuitive storytelling models to present Bible stories, characters and themes in ministry and mission settings. In addition to promoting creativity and broadening the base of ministry models available for preaching and teaching, students will be challenged to engage audiences through interaction that shifts their cultural paradigm from teaching to storytelling and subsequent ministry guide.
This class offering will be intentionally placed in a ministry or mission setting to evaluate effectiveness in a outcome-based learning environment.
Selected materials and stories will be chosen based on target audiences and thematic emphasis selected by students after consideration and consistent with their ministry goals and mission objectives for the project.
Students will be challenged to consider audiences that are outside of their own socio-economic background for ministry settings and outreach.
Students will interact other classmates in the development and delivery of stories providing critique and evaluation based on learning objectives along with evaluation of outcome based learning objectives in the final project.
