CinDay Guild Meeting – February 28, 2023
Location: Ohio River Valley District Offices, 7388 E. Kemper Road, Cincinnati
Attendees: Tom and Amelia Boomershine, JoAnne Rouse Clark, Darrell Miller, Ellen Patton (via Zoom), Janet Steele (notes)
Our thanks to Nancy Newton for assisting Amelia with setting up Zoom. Janet now has a fob to access the building and instructions on how to unlock the front door. It was noted that the Boy Scouts were meeting in the fellowship hall so it may be that doors will be unlocked each fourth Tuesday of the month.
Discussion centered on the ideas Tom and Amelia generated following the October meeting at Zion. In addition to those suggestions, these ideas came forward:
- To learn a story and explore in its original setting – Tom demonstrated by leading a learning of John 9:1 – 41 during the meeting.
- Help build the YouTube-based Biblical Storytelling Library
- Make connections between biblical stories, contemporary stories, our stories
- Listening to a story in context
- Invite pastors to attend a CinDay Guild meeting to experience biblical storytelling
- Record stories and make them available for chaplains, hospitals, hospice
- Ask the ORV District to include a separate listing for biblical storytellers, noting with and asterisk ( * ) those storytellers who are also members of CinDay Guild
Of the ideas Tom and Amelia generated, interest focused around learning a story during a meeting and Ellen Patton volunteered to teach a story during the March meeting. The other favored idea was outreach. Ellen and her husband gave a program that included storytelling and dulcimer music and Ellen will ask that organization if they would like a larger storytelling program. JoAnne visits a retirement community in Milford and her sister has contacts with one in Mason – she will enquire of both if they would like to host a biblical storytelling program.
Exploring the story in its original context. Tom walked us through the story of the man born blind in John 9. He broke down the structure of the story by movements, beginning with the question posed to Jesus by the disciples, leading to the provocation (day/night, “I am the Light of the world”) followed by the healing of the man born blind. As Jesus healed on the Sabbath, this led to interrogation(s) of both the man and his parent by the Pharisees, the man’s testimony, his being cast out of the synagogue, his encounter with Jesus and acknowledgment of Jesus as Messiah, and the summation by Jesus to the Pharisees, that they are ones truly still blind.
We adjourned at 9:00 p.m.
Next meeting is Tuesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. at ORV District offices.