our first day ended with the first keynote session from Steve, and lighting the fire.
Steve invited us to ponder from where do stories come? We heard how the kingdom of God is like the worldwide web, with twitters and facebook telling of the Story. We heard a reimagined telling of the story of breaking through the roof of a house in order to reach Jesus and ask for healing - the story of Bill and Ben and their pet goat Raisins. And we pondered - what is it that makes a 'good' story? things like imagination, and characters, and clues for the listeners to identify with their own experience.
Then a story of a girl whose father contracted a skin disease that pushed him outside his community, and how an encounter with Jesus not only healed her father's skin disease, but healed their family and restored them to community. And we wondered some more about what makes a 'good' story - emotion and love and passion and more ...
In the evening at the gatherings we 'light the fire' - tell stories from the different parts of our lives, biblical, cultural, humourous and tear-jerking. We heard stories from the Aboriginal community of the Flinders Ranges, from a trip to Fiji, a story told in different ways of Truth and Story, poetry from Shakespeare and Banjo Patterson ... and more.
And on the way to bed, some heard a bed-time story from the creators of the Lost Sheep stories.
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