GOD'S STORY ROPE

Looking back at preparations for Peru: 

I've been invited to teach in Peru in 2013.  My friend Cathy and I will be teaching the process of making story ropes to multiple women's groups in Lima and Piura. 

I've made and taught the making of story ropes since going to Rwanda and working with the genocide survivors.

 It is an effective way to process ones story - often a story that is too painful to tell, thus never been shared. 

I am presenting it a bit different this time.  I'm creating  new rope - God's Story Rope  to tell His story and how our painful stories fit into his story.  


I'm going to be creating the story rope on the face of a quilt. This is all new & I'm feeling my creative way! 

I plan to have a postcard made of this new quilt, to hand out to the seminar participants.  So in the photos I was figuring out the proportions and size to make the quilt - to fit on the Modern Postcard's Sumo size card-cut in half horizontally.  

HOPI WOMEN SHARE THEIR STORIES

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Eva's writes about their time of sharing: 

This woman, shared about being 100% Hopi and going away to school and returning. She was very proud of her life and considered her life a success. 

Others shared much more pain. In fact we recognized that we were on holy ground as they shared losses, divorces, alcohol and addiction problems with children.

Yet somehow when we finished, there was a sense of redemption and an ability to put their 'story' in God's hands.

HOPI WOMEN SHARE THEIR STORYROPES™

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Eva's writes about their time of sharing: 

This woman, shared about being 100% Hopi and going away to school and returning. She was very proud of her life and considered her life a success. 

Others shared much more pain. In fact we recognized that we were on holy ground as they shared losses, divorces, alcohol and addiction problems with children.

Yet somehow when we finished, there was a sense of redemption and an ability to put their 'story' in God's hands.

STORYROPES™ ON THE HOPI RESERVATION

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My friend, Eva, told me about an outreach on a Hopi reservation near Flagstaff, Arizona in 2012.  It was there where she and her team shared the storyrope™ process at the community center with mostly older women.  

On her team was a West African woman - cutting materials as another worked on her rope.

Tomorrow continuing with more story & pictures:  
HOPI WOMEN SHARE THEIR STORIES

CONSIDERING IDENTITY AND PURPOSE

In October 2013, Holly, from TRUE Stories Ministries, helped lead a college sorority group in Northeastern Oklahoma  in a two day retreat considering identity and purpose in their lives through the tool of storyrope™.   

The girls left that weekend with a perspective of truth versus lies in the events of their lives thus far and they purposed to go forward, facing challenges and joys in their lives with a perspective of seeking Truth in the story.   

The girls were pleasantly surprised at how their relationships with each other deepened, with better understanding and love, from that storyrope™ weekend. 

Holly holding her own storyrope™ as she taught the process.

PASSING THE PROCESS ON TO OTHER STATES

In the Spring of 2013, 20 women gathered for three days in a lovely, rural Oklahoma, no-cell-service retreat center to consider His Story in their lives using storyrope™.

Since then, at least eight of those women have used storyrope™ in small groups in their respective states of TN, WA, TX, and OK.

photo of Terri teaching Storyrope™

STORYROPES™ ON THE HOPI RESERVATION

1st of 2 posts
My friend, Eva, told me about an outreach on a Hopi reservation near Flagstaff, Arizona in 2012, when she and her team shared the storyrope™ process at the community center with mostly older women. 

On her team was a West African woman (in photo) cutting materials as another worked on her rope. 

Read the rest of the story with photos in next post.