Karen Matthias-Long, the resource center director for our partner synod Northeast Penn, sent me this wonderful idea. We are already planning to adapt it and use it in our synod during the year and the synod assembly. This is one piece of a friendly challenge that Karen and I (both resource center directors) made with each other to see which synod could come up with the most creative ideas for living into the Book of Faith. Looks like Karen is in the lead. Enjoy and adapt! Greg Kaufmann Here is the idea from Karen: Something TOTALLY spontaneous came my way yesterday. A young pastor came to the synod office with a 9th grade confirmation student on a “Book of Faith Road trip.” They had the Book of Faith logo on a 8 ∏ x 11 inch sign on the front dash of their car. They each wore homemade “Book of Faith” logo name badges with the words “Road trip” below the logo. They looked for people in the office to interview and video tape. (the pastor, by the way, has been working on developing a Book of Faith webpage for our synod and a blog). They hope to post the video of these interviews on our synod’s Book of Faith video blog. They began their adventure two days ago at our synod’s camp, Bear Creek, and interviewed counselors and campers. Yesterday, when they stopped by here, the asked me for suggestions of people to interview. So, I dropped everything and helped make contacts – and after dinner, I drove them to my local contacts. Today, they are driving to the seminary to talk with students and professors. They only ask three questions, so this doesn’t take too long. The first two questions change daily. Yesterday, for instance, they asked me: Why do you think it is important to read the Bible? What do you do to help people open their Bibles? The third question is to share your favorite Bible passage, underline it in a Bible they are carrying with them, and share why it’s your favorite. What I witnessed was powerful stuff! People were eager to share their favorite Bible passage (although, some found it hard, at first, to identify THE favorite!) The Bible will be at our Worship and Spirituality team display table and next year’s assembly. My thoughts are – once this is posted on the blog – to encourage congregational members to interview one another in a similar way! People are eager to share and listen to stories, it seems to me.