Shopping, banking…
and exploring the Bible

STUTTGART, Germany — As families across Germany go about their everyday activities such as shopping and banking, they will have the opportunity to learn more about the Bible through a mobile exhibition put on by the German Bible Society.

The exhibition, entitled Family Stories, will be displayed in shopping centres, banks, town halls and libraries as well as in churches across the country. In the state of Baden-Württemberg alone it will appear in more than 100 locations.

The exhibition forms part of the Society’s Year of the Bible campaign, through which it aims to raise the public profile of the Bible.

Designed to attract children and their parents, Family Stories offers visitors the chance to play a large game of Scripture-based snakes and ladders and solve a three-dimensional picture puzzle. Bible readings are played on a CD, and a display called Traces of the Bible in our Lives explains the meaning of biblical names and church holidays. Many different Scripture editions are displayed in a wooden box and visitors can also look at stickers from the 1900s depicting Bible stories.

The exhibition was put together by Bible Society employee Ruprecht Veigel, who is in charge of bringing the Bible into the public sphere. A previous exhibition organised by Mr Veigel, which invited visitors to experience the Bible through fragrances (see Latest News #160), was a great success. (WR 375/42 - 3.03)