What's New!
The pdf download option
HOW DOES IT HELP YOU FOR US TO SAVE PAPER, GAS AND POSTAGE? You can save money when you choose paperless downloads from Wild Grace. As we update this month, you will also be able to complete your full order on-line. The new lower prices when you order pdf downloads gives YOU and your church the savings. We will still offer drama and information about the arts as worship in hard copy if you prefer. But paperless is faster, cheaper and offers better stewardship of the resources we all share.
The pdf downloads include printable graphics, but they are reformated onto 8-1/2 x 11 sized paper to print-out simply and easily.
For example, the InterGenerational Arts as Worship Exchange The Quarterly newsletter, IgWAE offers age appropriate ideas for lots of ages. Now the pdf download is available for $12. per year (4 issues). Or you can receive your subscription as hard copy by mail for $20. per year, or $38.00 for two years.
Why be intergenerational? The mixing of ages offers a wonderful dynamic artistically. But also, it is a chance to value the gifts of other generations, and that is important in churches and families. We live in a time which has a strange propensity for sorting people according to birth year. But this promotes a kind of agism, which,like racism, or sexism, relies on stereotypical grouping to impose fears and negative expectations onto other groups or people, and builds barriers to communication.
"Those kids damage the floors of the church parlor." (So what's a "parlor?")
"Those old people sing off-key and ruin the hymns and besides that they smell bad."
We can't solve these issues by having children take off their shoes in church, or by muffling the voices of elder choir members, or distributing perfume. It fades from a problem to a precious opportunity when lines of communication are opened through working with one another on shared projects. The church and the family may be the only places where generations are really expected to work together, so it is the churches and the families who have the responsibility to value the generations. It is for the church to open the perspective that children are of value, youth are of value, the big wide middle ages is of value, and the old are of value.
Check out two intergenerational Christmas Pageants:
