Caton Baptist and a weekend of telling stories.
March 14, 2008 by Graham Doel
Filed under Faith
I’m spending the weekend this weekend with the people from Caton Baptist Church. They are having a church weekend away and I’m their guest. I have a few things to do including a few devotions, a bible study and an all age celebration. I’m quite looking forward to it, though I don’t particularly like staying away from Louise and the kids.
In the devotions I will be retelling some of the gospel stories, using some songs from my ipod. The first time I used this approach I was meticulous. I planned, practised and recorded the whole thing. Now I generally just mix the songs in as I talk. However, if your interested, here is a recording of me retelling the account of Jesus and the Tax Collector.
Richard on Fri, 14th Mar 2008 3:52 pm
I found that very effective. I have never used music in the telling of stories but having heard how well it works i might do that infuture. I hope the weekend goes well.
Richard
admin on Fri, 14th Mar 2008 5:01 pm
The problem with using a pre-set backing track is that you have resist the temptation to ad-lib. Something I find very hard to do. Which is why I mix them live now. Louise bought me an Ipod for Christmas and it is ideal. You can hold it in one hand and control the song volume without ever looking at it. The only problem is that the Itunes software doesn’t work on Linux, so I have to use a windows machine for all the uploading at the moment.