Nancy Bond Playwright

Who is Nancy Bond?
Nancy was raised in Decatur, GA. She's been blessed with a meaningful and fullfilling life because of encouraging parents, talented siblings, an extraordinary grandmother, fabulous teachers, creative friends, an inspiring church, spectacular memories and meeting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

At age five, Nancy found a love for creating and acting out stories. She and her sister wrote and performed dramas for their family. During elementary school, Nancy frequently created dramas to present in various classes. Upon entering the youth group at First Baptist Church in Atlanta, the choir director asked her to write and direct a drama for a yearly banquet. After seeing the great success, the youth minister asked Nancy to write and perform dramas each month or so. In college, she was part of the drama team at the Baptist Student Union at Georgia Tech.

While at Tech, Nancy married Brent Bond whom she'd met at her Atlanta church. (Though they had attended the same high school!) They were blessed to have two sons.

Nancy was raised in Decatur, GA. She's been blessed to have a meaningful and fullfilling life because of encouraging parents, talented siblings, an amazing grandmother, fabulous teachers, creative friends, an inspiring church, spectacular memories and meeting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

At age five, Nancy found a love for creating and acting out stories. She and her sister wrote and performed dramas for their family. During elementary school, Nancy frequently created dramas to present in various classes. Upon entering the youth group at First Baptist Church in Atlanta, the choir director asked her to write and direct a drama for a yearly banquet. After seeing the great success, the youth minister asked Nancy to write and perform dramas each month or so. In college, she was part of the drama team at the Baptist Student Union at Georgia Tech.

While at Tech, Nancy married Brent Bond whom she'd met at her Atlanta church. (Though they had attended the same high school!) They were blessed to have two sons.

How did Nancy start writing Mystery Scripts?
After several moves to various places in GA, NC, and VA, Nancy's family moved as Southern Baptist missionaries to Galloway, OH to start a new church. In OH, Nancy continued to write and sell short sketches as well as longer dramas for Christmas and Easter.

This love for drama, brought requests for Nancy to help and later lead the annual creative ministries conference for churches in the state of Ohio as well as to teach workshops at the Kentucky Creative Ministries Conferences.

During conference planning, Nancy met Rick Shoemaker. He pastored a church in Dayton, OH and also wrote mystery plays. Nancy recognized that churches and other non profit groups could use these captivating scripts to gather the community for a memorable event with laughter and camaraderie. She started selling Rick's plays as well as writing original mysteries with different themes. These mystery dinners have been extremely fun for a variety of ages and groups. Numerous organizations return yearly to purchase new scripts.

What other interests does Nancy have?
Nancy has worked as a math teacher for high school and college students. Plus, she thoroughly enjoys photography - especially of nature and animals. She cherishes being involved in church through various ways like choir, handbells, praise team, playing drums, planning churchwide events, leading drama teams, and teaching Sunday School classes and Children's Church.

Nancy and Brent enjoyed time away, but are happy to be back in Georgia. Nancy continues to write new scripts and minister through the dramatic arts. In addition to Theater4Church.com, Nancy has created a new website: NancyBondCreations.com to share stories and pictures while linking to Etsy.

Nancy acting in play Missing Greenbacks.

Why are you so
interested in Bluebirds?

Why is your business
called "Stuff 4 Church?"

Why are the verses
Psalm 1:1-3 your tag line?

   In 2nd grade, my teacher assigned the class to either write 5 reports or build a bird house. I looked in the encyclopedia and found how to build a bluebird house. (All but one other person wrote reports.)
   At home, Dad put up the house in the back yard. For years, my entire family was entertained by bluebirds raising chicks. Later in life, whenever I experienced extra difficult trials, God often sent a bluebird to remind me of His constant love for me.
   These days, I see bluebirds almost every day because I feed them worms. They are beautiful and bring loads of joy into my life.

I started my business in 2003 when the internet was still relatively new. In appreciation of how people assisted us as we started a new church, I hoped to help other churches. So, I offered a free site where churches were able to donate hymnals, choir robes, pews, organs, ... to other churches. My site had links to many Christian web sites. I offered a variety of products that I wrote. My most popular feature was curriculum for Children's Church that I sold in printable format. Thus, with such a variety "Stuff 4 Church" was the ideal fit.

How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked ... his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night. He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. Ps 1:1-3

Living like a tree by the waters is a tremendous image. Trees offer shade, homes, food, and wondrous beauty. The world often pulls us in the wrong direction. By choosing to follow God, we are filled with a deep-seated joy and contentment.