Open The Book

'Open the Book' - Bible Stories

For any new readers, the Open the Book project takes a team of Christian people into our primary schools to present a dramatised Bible story-telling assembly every week. We are very proud that Cirencester was the first town in the Diocese to have a team in every primary school. Although we are now in the seventh year, most of the teams still have their original members, made up from all the town churches.
  We were sad when Ingleside independent school closed down, but we are glad that all the members of their Open the Book team are now happily settled in other school teams.
  This is an important year in the development of the project for two reasons:  it has recently become a registered charity, and even has a part time paid worker – one of the Gloucestershire founders, Jacqueline Rodwell. The second reason is that we are about to go National! The 90 Bible stories we use over a three year cycle have been honed and revised, often by feedback from Cirencester teams, and together with the introductions and prayers will soon be available in all good booksellers, as they say.

Are you interested in being an 'Open the Book' Bible story-teller in one of our Cirencester schools. If so then please contact David Williams via the Parish Office.

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