Creative Spirit Centre

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Since 1996, ISSU’s publications have been part of the Creative Spirit Centre. ISSU is proud to run its own in-house book publishing, with a devoted team that handles all aspects of the publishing lifecycle, except printing. The main emphasis and focus has been the development and delivery of a day school and Sunday school curriculum, Windows to Encounter, from pre-school to Grade XI (12 volumes), available in English, Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi, and work is in progress in Telugu. ISSU plans to publish Windows to Encounter in all the other major Indian languages for use in churches all over India. Youth and adult Christian education materials are in progress. Plan are afoot for digitization of the Sunday school books. 

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Windows to Encounter

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Need

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We need financial help to translate and print 12 volumes of WTE books in other regional languages. The cost per volume, both teacher’s guide and students’ workbook is Rs.93,750/-, which includes translation, editing, and printing. If 62 people contribute Rs.1500/- each, it will pay for one volume in one regional language. If 750 people contribute Rs.1500/- each, 12 volumes in one regional language can be printed.

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Godly Play

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What is Godly Play?

Jerome Berryman, the founder, describes it as an interpretation of Montessori religious

education. Like curriculum, it is an imaginative approach to working with children,

that supports, challenges nourishes, and guides their spiritual quest. It is more akin to

spiritual direction than to what we generally think of as religious education.

 

Godly Play assumes that children have some experience of the mystery of the presence

of God in their lives, but that they lack the language, permission, and understanding to

express and enjoy that in our cultures.

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Berryman says, “Children have an innate sense of the presence of God. The Godly Play

approach helps them to explore their faith through story, to gain religious language

and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play method serves children through early, middle and late childhood and beyond.”

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In, we enter into parables, scared stories, sacred liturgy, and silence, in order to discover God, ourselves, one another and the world around us.

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Source: http://www.godlyplay.org

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The Godly Play Foundation, USA, has given ISSU the exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute Godly Play materials in the SAARC nations and Middle-Eastern countries.

 

Need

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We need seed capital of Rs.10,00,000/- to start production of Godly Play materials.

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