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Festival Wrap-up & Celebration
with Sandhya Ruban Hobday
Saturday, November 14/26 - 9-10:30am (pacific)
Let us draw on the riches from this year's workshops and have a kind of a year-end showcase of highlights!
We are actively re-watching our workshop videos now and identifying key moments in them, which we will show in an event called our Festival 2026 wrap-up. In each segment, we will ensure that workshop participants get to put that skill to work, as they by-heart their own chosen biblical text. And we've asked Sandhya Ruban Hobday to be our featured teller on that day! That will be November 14.
It's kind of a banquet, really.
This means you should not miss this opportunity to revisit workshops you already learned from, catch up on what you missed, and spend by-hearting time with your community of tellers. We plan to show a video clip from three of our practical workshops, include musical clips, spiritual practices and specific skills from others. Each of the three major clips will be followed by discussion and hands-on text work. We're putting the "WORK" into "Workshop"!
It also means you have time now to get by-hearting your text. Register now and bring your text with you. More details to follow.
Our Featured Teller: Dr Sandhya Ruban Hobday
Master Biblical Storyteller
India's first certified biblical storyteller from the NBSI Academy for Biblical Storytelling, passionate storyteller, preacher, mother of two girls, founder of the Network of Biblical Storytellers India and the NBS Asia.
About herself, Sandhya says:
I live in a bustling city on the southeast coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, called Chennai (erstwhile Madras). I have a professional degree in dentistry. I also have Master's certification from the Academy for Biblical Storytelling under Dean Tracy Radosevic. Now that I have completed three levels of biblical Hebrew, I am pursuing my D.Min. in finding feminine narratives in the Bible.
After my oldest daughter Samara was born, I started searching for biblical storytelling as I felt there was such great need in my country to hear the stories of the God of Mercy. Proselytizing was becoming a challenge. Literacy levels, especially among women in rural villages were really low, and for them to relate to a printed book was almost impossible. We have 28 languages in our country, and I realized we had the challenges of translation, and of learning stories in regional and national languages. My vision is for India to know what biblical telling is about.
I started learning to tell in five languages and I see a spark in the congregation's eyes when I am telling a story. They begin relating with the characters in the Bible and in an instant so much happens. I am a firm believer in the verse that says, "Every word that goes out of his mouth, will not return void, but bear fruit, 30, 60 and a 100-fold" and this is why my passions run high with biblical storytelling.
Injustice to the marginalized and inequality in the social fabric of my country deeply saddens me. I know we serve a righteous God, and one day, He is sure to equalize and restore tilted scales.
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