First Baptist Church, 1330 Kasold Drive, will cap its “C.S. Lewis Summer” this weekend with two dramatized vignettes based on a couple of the British author’s most well-known works  “The Screwtape Letters” and “A Grief Observed”  and a reading of his enduring children’s book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

“For six weeks, we have been doing what we have labeled a ‘C.S. Lewis Summer.’ It’s been intergenerational, because Lewis wrote for a very broad audience: children, seekers and persons grounded in the (Christian) faith,” said the Rev. Marcus McFaul, First Baptist’s senior pastor.

“We have explored all of his genres of writing, our worship services have been guided by some of his best work, and we’ve had book discussion groups. We’ve been immersed in all things C.S. Lewis.”

Lewis  who lived from 1898 to 1963  was an internationally acclaimed writer, academician, essayist, literary critic, children’s author and Christian apologist, or defender of the faith.

He is perhaps best known to modern readers as the author of a popular series of six books written for children called “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

David Payne and Evelyn O’Neal, the dramatists who form Rising Image Productions, will perform a vignette based on “The Screwtape Letters” at 7 p.m. today in the church’s Roger Williams Room.

Payne and O’Neal will perform a vignette called “Weep for Joy,” which is based upon Lewis’ work “A Grief Observed,” at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Roger Williams Room.

Both of the performances are open to the community. There is no charge to attend.

On Aug. 10, Tom Hanks, a faculty member of Baylor University’s English Department, will do a reading of Lewis’ book “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

The reading, at 6 p.m. at First Baptist, is also free of charge and open to the community.

McFaul explained the reason for his church’s focus this summer on the British author.

“Lewis, more than anyone else in the 20th century, made the case for Christianity,” he said. “In an academic community such as Lawrence, we have been looking at him as someone who could speak to both head and heart.”