It’s something they already know, they just don’t have the words for. When people have done training, over either one day or three, they often say, ‘Well this changes everything, doesn’t it?’ If children are already made in the image of God and we’re giving them a language and framework to explore that, it changes everything we do with children.
I think it’s because it allows people to explore faith. What is it about Godly Play that people like? This initiative has been going for several years. In the Bible Zone, we provide a Godly Play story. This enables children to go into a Salvation Army Corps (the local church) and explore the different elements of the Salvation Army. Usually on a school’s curriculum there’s a requirement to do that. There’s also something the Salvation Army runs called the Ultimate Church Visit, which can be used by local Salvation Army churches, where school children come and visit our place of worship.
We’ve run two three-day courses specifically for Salvation Army people so far and we have another three scheduled that are fully booked - we can hardly keep up with demand. The production and trials of those generated a lot of interest.īecause we’ve introduced these Army stories we’re running 14 introduction days across the UK. Now that’s not just because I’ve trained to be a trainer, but because after that Rebecca and I and a group of others worked on three specific Salvation Army stories. Eighteen months ago I went to Holland to train to do just that.įrom that point on interest has been overwhelming, but not just with children’s work, with our Lifehouses, with old people’s homes, retreats… it slow-burned for five or six years, then suddenly we got this flourishing interest. Gradually the interest grew and grew so that eventually Rebecca Nye suggested that I apply to be a trainer. Six years ago, a colleague and I did a three-day Godly Play training course and we started taking it around the territory ]local Salvation Army areas] showing people what Godly Play was like. How popular is Godly Play in the Salvation Army?
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