Especially for Faith Communities
Do you want to enrich your congregation's worship life?
Do you want to deepen your connection to scripture?
Do you want to enliven your preaching?
Do you want to create a vibrant faith community?
Do you want to enhance your religious education program?
Storytelling connects people, forms community, opens hearts and
engages the spirit like nothing else.
With your group of pastors, religious educators, and/or congregation
members, you will experience the power of storytelling and will
explore connections between biblical story, traditional tale, and
one's own lifestory. Pam guides you to:
- learn techniques for learning and telling stories
- develop confidence and discover your own storytelling gifts
- listen for God in the dialogue between story and life.
Pam says, "Together, we can explore the many possible roles of
storytelling in your faith community: pastoral, prophetic, fellowship,
preaching, and educational...the possibilities may be endless!"
About Pam
Pam is a life-long Lutheran (now ELCA), has been a church musician since
high school, and received her B.A. in Music with teacher certification
from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She received her M. Div. from Iliff
School of Theology in Denver, a progressive seminary of the United
Methodist Church with a richly ecumenical environment.
Pam offers programs and workshops in biblical storytelling, as well as
explorations of how biblical, personal, and traditional tales illumine
and enrich each other, and the individuals and communities who share
them.
Testimonials
"Pam Faro is an exceptionally gifted biblical storyteller with a
commanding sense of presence. She is able to take ancient texts and find
and give lively expression to them so that they live and breathe again
with the kind of vitality, humor, passion and earnestness they possessed
when they were first told. Pam is a scholar who approaches her study of
the stories of scripture from an informed, critical perspective. She is
also a person of faith, who tells the stories faithfully—both in the
sense of honoring her responsibility to sacred texts and in the sense
telling the stories out of a faithful life."
—Dennis Dewey, Executive Director, Network of Biblical Storytellers
"As a student of Hebrew and Greek, Pam has experienced the stories in
their original languages as well as in English or Spanish for that
matter. Whatever the language, she makes it possible to experience the
power and grace of the stories. Whether with children or adults, rich or
poor, people of oral, literate or digital culture—Pam makes the stories
of God unforgettable."
—Tom Boomershine, G. Ernest Thomas Professor of Christianity and
Communication, United Theological Seminary
Programs
- Biblical Women You Never Knew—Or Did You?
- Living Water—Biblical Stories of Rivers, Seas, and Spirit
- The Passion Story from Mark's Gospel
- Sharing Out of Our Resources—Women in Luke's Gospel
- Andalusian Trilogy: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Stories from Medieval
Spain
- Call Stories—Yours, Mine, and Ours
Workshops
- Biblical Story, Your Story—Intertwined!
- In the Beginning: Biblical Storytelling 101
- Folktales in Church?—Heavens!
Plus, Pam's "secular" workshops are wonderful resources for faith
communities:
- Everyone's a Storyteller
— Basic introductory overview of finding the storyteller that is in
each of us!
- Moving Stories
— Exploring use of movement, physical expression in storytelling.
- No Paragraphs, Margins, or Quotation Marks!
— Exploring the many rich elements of the oral language of storytelling
as compared to the written language of literature.
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