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Christian Story Telling

This document provides guidance on how to effectively tell Christian stories. It recommends choosing a story you are comfortable with and collecting all the relevant facts. Each character should feel like a real person. Stories should feature a problem to solve, conflict, and suspense. When telling, use dialogue and vary pace and volume to create mood. Build each scene to a climax. Practice telling the story out loud. Consider your audience and adapt the story appropriately. Be prepared, make eye contact, and have confidence when telling to engage the audience.

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Christian Story Telling

This document provides guidance on how to effectively tell Christian stories. It recommends choosing a story you are comfortable with and collecting all the relevant facts. Each character should feel like a real person. Stories should feature a problem to solve, conflict, and suspense. When telling, use dialogue and vary pace and volume to create mood. Build each scene to a climax. Practice telling the story out loud. Consider your audience and adapt the story appropriately. Be prepared, make eye contact, and have confidence when telling to engage the audience.

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Christian Story Telling

by: MG L. Carado
TO START WITH
1. Pray that God will be with you as you prepare
the story.
2. Choose a story that you feel confident and
comfortable to tell. (Ponder over it so that it
becomes your own.)
3. Collect all of the story facts.
4. Make each character in the story real living
people. (creativity)
5. Plan each of the scenes.
Some Sources of Stories
1. Yourself (personal experience)
2. Someone’s life/ experience (friends, family)
3. The Bible
4. Nature
5. Books
6. Magazines and newspapers
7. Internet
8. Other reliable sources
Features of a Good Story.
1. The story requires a person (hero or
heroine) or animal with a problem to be
solved.
2. The story needs conflict.
3. The story must contain suspense.
4. Use dialogue in the story to allow the
characters to ‘live’.
When speaking dialogue:

a. Face the way that the person is facing and then the
other way
b. Contrast the voice to convey character;
--solemn or dignified
– lower angry or excited – higher
c. Control volume to create mood;
- If the person yells – YELL
- If the person whispers - whisper
d. Varying the pace of speaking adds excitement and
suspense;
- suspense – slow
- action – fast
5. Build each scene to a climax which makes
the audience want to hear more.
6. Does the story impart your intended
message? (Theme Related)
7. Remember the moral can be attached to
the story in different ways. (at the end, ask
the listeners of what lesson they got, before
telling them the lesson you want to
emphasize).
8. Practice the story out aloud.
9. A story well-prepared is 90% given.
10. Adapt the story by answering the following
questions;
• Who are the audience? The story must be adapted
with the age, culture and background.
• How long have you been given to tell the story?
consider the attention span of each kids level ( each age
level has it’s definite time to tell)
• Is the story for men, women, children ,or a general
audience?
cradle roll ---repetition of words around 3 mins.
kinder --- hero around 5 mins.
primary --- suspense around 10 minutes
junior ---adventure around 15 mins.
senior --- love story (Samson and Delilah) around 20
minutes
• Where is the story being told? Is there enough
space to tell the story?
• What equipment will you need to tell the
story? Will you need a microphone? Pictures?
Projector? Story books?
• In which part of the program is the
presentation? Beginning, middle last? (
consider the other parts and participants of
the program)
• What do you hope to achieve? Entertain,
teach, persuade, encourage action. = GOAL
Methods of making your storytelling successful.
1. Be well prepared, well rehearsed and well
groomed.
2. Don’t be afraid to use notes when you are telling
the story.
3. Be confident. Smile. Stand up.
4. Commit yourself to the Lord.
5. Be excited about your story. The audience will
catch the spirit.
6. Look at the audience. (consider the audience at
your right, left and farther ones.
7. Have complete control of yourself.
8. Make sure everyone could see your visual aid
such as story book, pictures paste on the
board, something to hold on, etc.
9. Speak up so that everyone can hear.
10.When you reach the climax, STOP, if possible.
Avoid unnecessary information.
11.Finally, remember that all great storytellers
do feel nervous at times.
Thank you

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