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.

Connect with PWG; Find a Teller

Network of Biblical Storytellers website!

Wonder why take the time to be part of an epic telling? Check out the testimony from the troupe:

Rebecca

Rebecca Potter:  Learning and telling the stories from the Gospel of Mark was an amazing joy! As I heard Mark told week after week, the Gospel began to sink deeper and deeper into my bones. 

Linda Braggs

Linda Braggs: 
My  participation in the Presentatiion of Mark gave me an opportunity to continue studying to show myself approved as a workman who needs not to be ashamed.  It was a blessing to me and to many who took the time to say so. 

Nora McNamara

Nora McNamara:

Learning and telling these stories like this led me to focus on each word. There were treasures there that I had never noticed before that are now written on my heart.  

  

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John Freidheim: 

 

 John Stories become alive and vibrant when told by those who truly love the story. As we learned and told this story we loved the story, those we told it to, and those we told it with. We were blessed and loved by God as we told this Good News. 

 

  

Healing and Hope
Video Project

Learn more about PWG's next great project!

Connect with PWG

PWG folks will meet May 19, 2 - 5 p.m.,
at the home of coordinator Beth Galbreath. Park in the back parking lot of Woodridge United Methodist Church, 2700 75th Street, Woodridge IL. It's a picnic style potluck, so bring a dish to pass, and to say you're coming and get instructions about finding her house after you park. The agenda will be kicking back, having fun, and planning Healing and Hope.

 


Richard Farnswort

Richard Farnsworth:
This was my first experience with a longer telling. When you take the scriptures off the printed page, you breathe a new special type of life into them. When you bring different people together to either listen or tell, you breathe more life into them. You can hear more in the stories and laugh at humour you never knew was there. You can feel emotions and you can understand the ebb and flow of the good news in a different way. And every telling is different. 

  

Vicki Cabral
Going deep into the Gospel of Mark so as to tell the stories from the heart and convey the feeling and emotion is like nothing else. The stories, the characters, the other tellers and the audience all combine for an experience that truly touches your heart!

Juleigh Ruby
To witness the Gospel come alive as the Holy Spirit worked through tellers and audience members alike never failed to give me goosebumps. What a blessing to have the opportunity to share the Gospel of Mark in this way!