Welcome to Prairie Wind Guild, a group of folks in the Chicago-Northern Illinois-Lake Michigan area who are passionate about learning by heart and telling sacred stories. Prairie Wind Guild is associated with the Network of Biblical Storytellers International.

Network of Biblical Storytellers website!

Gospel of Mark Telling:
Come experience the mystery!

Ten Prairie Wind Guild members will be presenting an epic telling of Mark at a number of northern Illinois churches this February through March. Here is the schedule:

Feb. 12, 3-5 p.m., All Saints' Episcopal Church, 4550 N. Hermitage, Chicago, Illinois.

Feb. 19, 4-6 p.m., Heritage Presbyterian Church, 965 Kuhn Road, Carol Stream, Illinois.

Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., St. Paul Lutheran Church,
545 S. Ardmore Avenue, Villa Park, Illinois.

March 11, 4-6 p.m., Covenant Faith Church of God, 10505 S. Halsted St., Chicago.

March 14, 7-9 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 8955 Columbia Av., Munster, Indiana.

March 18: 6-8 p.m., Woodridge United Methodist Church, 2700 W. 75th St., Woodridge, Illinois.

March 25: 6-8 p.m., Grace United Methodist Church, 1718 Avalon Ave., Joliet, Illinois.

April 22: 5-7 p.m., Wyanet United Methodist Church,
112 West Main St., Wyanet Illinois.

The performance has no admission fee, but there will be a free will offering taken to support the work of Prairie Wind Guild.

 

 

Another Great New Initiative:

Hospital Story Videos

Imagine this:

You're in a hospital, waiting. Either waiting in a bed or waiting beside a bed or waiting in the waiting room. The TV is on, but you're not into either sports or news or soap operas, so you try the hospital's internal feed. And among the announcements and health-related infomercials there is something new - Biblical stories of healing.

At NBS Festival Gathering last August, founder Tom Boomershine challenged participants to look for ways to bring Biblical storytelling into hospital settings.

Several of PWG's members have hospital backgrounds and connections, so at the September meeting we also decided to move forward on that challenge. And we're beginning with the healing stories that the team is learning for the Mark epic.

Do you have hospital connections? These videos would be available to hospitals free of charge for their internal video feeds. Please contact PWG if you can help make that happen!

Imagine videos of the dozens of wonderful healing stories in Scripture, in both Hebrew Scripture and the New Testament, as well as the poetry of the psalms. Imagine the 24/7 resource such video would be for people and for hospital chaplains.

We've collected the equipment we need, and are going to be recording some of the Gospel of Mark stories this summer. Sign up for the enews with the button above to hear more about it!

Such an initiative would:
> give many tellers opportunities to tell
> spread the art to new audiences
> be fun
> and really put the name of PWG on the map, regionally and nationally, as we share the videos.

If you would like to be a teller, or if you have any of the skills or equipment needed, or if you'd just like to hear more as we plan, please email Beth Galbreath.

Find a Teller for Your Event!

If you love Biblical storytelling but aren't doing it yourself - yet! - and are looking for a teller for such an event, check PWG tellers, or Faith Arts Alliance. 

Facebook group of Chicago-area (and some not so Chicago-area) Biblical Storytellers

Online Workshops in Biblical Storytelling
led by Prairie Wind Guild coordinator Beth Galbreath
Check out the fall schedule. Can't make it to PWG meetings? Check out the new
Biblical Storytelling TOGether: The Online Guild.