May 5 Seminary workshop can teach you

Ministering to others is often more powerfully possible with the assistance of clowning and puppetry, according to seminarians Rebecca Knox, left, and Owen Griffiths, students at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Want to learn how to use these special techniques? Then a free, hands-on workshop at the Seminary may be ideal for you. It will be conducted from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, in the Seminary's Hagan Amphitheater. The students will teach a wide variety of skills, including how to make use of skits, and they'll teach the use of these techniques in such settings as hospitals, care of older persons, Christian education, and in worship. Issues regarding budgets and resources will be addressed, too. "Sometimes the way you deliver the message can make all the difference in getting something across," Knox says. She is from Collegeville. Griffiths, who has a theatrical background, is from Long Beach, CA. The Seminary is located at 7301 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia's East Mt. Airy section.