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How You Can Use MWM

Ministering with Movies offers different activities to help get in touch with who we are, who God is, and where we are in our connection with the Divine.  

Available Services:  Presentations, workshop, and retreats are customized to meet the needs of your particular group and purpose.
 

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Film as Spiritual Journey
 
Films can help us get in touch with where we are on our journeys of faith and where we want to be.  Something happens to us as we watch a film because . . .
  • films are spiritual guides to life
  • films teach and reinforce lasting spiritual truths
  • films provide lessons of what it means to be a person
  • the best films reveal the best qualities of our own heart
  • films can be a safe place to get in touch with our shadow side

Films such as The Wizard of Oz, The Lion King, Finding Nemo, Star Wars, and, most recently, The Lord of Rings Trilogy demonstrate outwardly our inner spiritual experiences.

The Virtues in Color and Black & White

Spiritually is being expressed and deepened in various new ways.
 
What does redemption, compassion, peace and justice, faith, hope, and love      look like on the screen?
 
Films such as Radio, Whale Rider, Shrek, Hotel Rwanda, and With Honors, to name just a few, demonstrate virtues through a contemporary and very popular medium.  If we can recognize them in film we can recognize them in life. 

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What about adults?
Ministering with Movies is not only for the young.  Faith formation is a life-long process and people of all ages desire and deserve the benefits from a ministry such as this.  Of course, appropriate films are not only chosen based on the topic, but also on the age group participating in the program.  Films such as The African Queen, Gone with the Wind, Everything is Illuminated, and Kodesh, are used to demonstrate spiritual principals on a more mature level. 
Intergenerational workshops have also been very successful,  Rabbit Proof Fence, Little Women, Thirteen and Joy Luck Club were used in a mother/daughter retreat affording mothers the opportunity to talk with and better understand their daughters and daughters the opportunity to view 'motherhood' from a different perspective.

WHEN
Anytime of the year is appropriate.  Films are adapted to meet the time of year.

Retreats, Workshops, and Presentations

Pre- and Post- Bar/Bat Mizvah retreats for teens have been particularly successful.  In addition, consider MWM for youth groups, volunteers, and your entire congregation for the 2009-2010 season. 


For more information call: 708-446-5708

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Ministering with Movies
Oak Park, IL