iWRITEADREAM Pembroke/Hopkins Park, Ill.: Christmas play held at Bible Witness Camp

Friday, December 19, 2008

Christmas play held at Bible Witness Camp

By Jacquil Rivers

The play at Bible Witness Camp was called “The Christmas County Spelling Bee.” The play was about Jesus. The actors had to spell the many names of Jesus. For example, some of the names were Immanuel, Messiah and Lamb of God.

The choir sang songs. Some of the songs were “Prince of Peace” and “Mighty God.” The people who did not get a part in the play sang in the choir. Other people had to say a scripture verse. The play was directed by Ms. Goosby.

Some of the actors did not know their parts, but the play was still good.

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PEMBROKE LIVE!

Deandre Hampton, a student at Lorenzo R. Smith School in Pembroke, Ill., was among nearly two dozen students who participated this summer in the iWriteADream journalism camp created by John W. Fountain, a former New York Times national correspondent and currently a journalism professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He and his wife Monica Fountain, a former Chicago Tribune reporter, head the journalism program. The students call their body of work (photographs, stories and poetic essays) produced in the workshop and presented here: Pembroke Live!

iWriteADream

Telling Our Stories
One Community at a Time
-PEMBROKE, Ill.

Each day, American journalism presents the menu of news, events, people and places it believes most important to the lives of Americans. Today’s stories become tomorrow’s history. But each day, many stories often go missing, particularly stories about minority communities and the poor.

Most often conspicuously absent from the voices and portraits of communities presented by daily journalism are the voices and perspectives of children and teens.

In a world where technology can bring the global community face to face with the stroke of a keyboard, iWriteaDream promotes digital diversity and seeks to create an online body of work from underrepresented communities, capturing their voices, their hope, their existence and their stories as told by them.

These are the voices of those who live in Pembroke/Hopkins Park, Ill., among the economically poorest communities in the state, but rich in hope, promise, dreams and in that which matters most.

You may reach Fountain at jfountain@Roosevelt.edu