LTSG - 1.103 OLD TESTAMENT INTRODUCTION – FALL 2004 - MGVH
This project is designed to help you integrate things you have learned in our class with various situations a rostered leader may expect to encounter in their call to leadership ministry. Choose one of the four options listed below and complete that option as your Integrative Take Home Project.
The completed project is to be handed in at 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, November 30. This project is worth 25% of your final grade for the course.
NOTE: From past experience I have discovered that—either due to the desire to make an emotional appeal or due to lack of being able to find something more appropriate—it has been easy to include schmaltzy, sentimental, hokey, or kitschy graphics, pictures, expressions, or music. Don’t do it!
The Mother-Daughter group at your congregation has asked you to do a Bible study program for their next meeting on the book of Ruth, and they are hoping you will share a bit of your artistic abilities for which you have become so well known. Compose a one page Bible study handout and the leader’s guide that would accompany it. Create an artistic work (song, visual art, poem, drama, short story, quilt square, sculpture, etc.) that illustrates some aspect of the Ruth story. The Bible study should provide the background for and illumine the choices that you made in composing your artistic work.
At your congregation, they have asked you to plan and lead this year’s Wednesday evening Advent services. You have decided to do a four part series on selected Psalms. (OR: Prophetic texts from Isaiah)
Your integrative project should include the following:
· The informational piece for the congregational newsletter introducing the series.
· An order of service for each night: This can be in draft form, but in addition to the focus text, you should indicate at least two hymns and another biblical reading you would use and also compose a ‘prayer of the day’ for each service.
· ONE of the following:
o For one of the selected texts, compose the five minute homily that would accompany it.
o An original re-presentation of one of your selected texts (song, poem, PowerPoint, etc.)
Are those confirmation kids listening to you at all? You have decided to create a web site to reinforce your presentation on the Ten Commandments (or perhaps introduce it!).
· Compose an introductory (index) page and also a single web page for each of the commandments.
· Because this is a web site, issues such as graphics and crisp writing are important in your design.
· You may indeed include external links to other online resources, and they are especially encouraged if they illustrate a point you are trying to make. The focus of this project, however, is the content that you create.
· An optional component of this project may be to create a “Web Quest.” Provide a trail of links for a student to follow that will serve to illustrate or inform your understanding of the Ten Commandments.
You have decided to make a multi-media presentation on the Jonah story for your upcoming adult Sunday School class. You intend to include various works of art, music, and text and put it together in a PowerPoint presentation.
For your integrative project, you should:
· Create a Power Point presentation of between 3-5 minutes which combines art, text, and music to tell that story in a new way
· In the notes section of each slide, very briefly describe what you were trying to convey
· (Even though you can use 1000 different fonts and animations… DON’T! Grading will be based primarily on content and how it is communicated, but aesthetics will also be valued.)
(A good site for finding [mostly free] artwork which you can download and put into a PowerPoint format is: http://www.gettysburgseminary.org/mhoffman/xnlinks/artsites.htm)