Chapel service

Please bow your heads
As we light our candle we are reminded about the strength it brings to our life.
The candle shares the light. Just like this candle we can share and show others our love.
Jesus told us to love other people.

Amen

As we prepare for Easter
We reflect on the hope it brings into our lives

Hope is the faith in action …. it is the seeding ground of love
Hope is the smile that knows you, and shows you that you matter. It is all that strengthens you.
Hope says we can do this , we can make it happen, we are not afraid
Hope looks around in awareness, seeing only possibilities
Hope meets hurt with healings, and disappointment with gentleness, and all with forgiveness
Hope might take the long way round, because it is always ready to believe, to trust and to wait.
It is amazingly generous and very encouraging
Hope begins in faith and ends in love. It is empty without faith, and goes nowhere without love

This is the word of the Lord
Amen
Please stand quietly for our song

Our creation myth from North America
We are invited to listen to this myth and discover the common themes and threads that have emerged in creation myths in
vastly different times and places. We are challenged to think about our lives, our world and its meaning.
May this chapel service help us all to be better, positive earth-makers and respect the creativity we bring to Wellesley.
Our Father, Earthmaker, awoke and moved his right arm and then his left arm, then he moved his right leg, then his left leg,
not knowing what to do he began to cry. Bright tears fell from his eyes far down below him in to the empty space.
Earthmaker looked down and saw that his tears had become an ocean. This made him think. It seems, he thought that
what ever I wish for I can make. See how my tears have become oceans.
Earthmaker wished for light ,and light came. He wished for earth and when it came he saw how beautiful it was..
Earthmaker thought about how everything he wished for, came into being.
For the first time, he spoke, and these were the words he said. “I seem to be able to make everything I want by just thinking about it.
I would like to make someone like myself.”
Earthmaker took a piece of the earth and shaped it into a person. He talked to this person he had made
but it did not answer him. Earthmaker realised the person had no mind or tongue, so he wished for these things , and they came.
But there was still something missing. The person did not answer when Earthmaker spoke.
Looking again at the person, Earthmaker knew that it had no soul. That is why it could not talk.

He wished for a soul for the person. At last, Earthmaker knew what he must do.
Gently, he breathed into the mouth of the creature he had made. Now he spoke to it, and it answered him.
Breathing is such an important part of life. We breathe life into everything we do.
In our North American myth, people believed in the importance of having a special part within us that makes us grow as a positive person.
We thank God for our lives, our talents, and our beliefs.
Amen
Would Mr Owen like to say a few words?
Thank you Mr Owen
As we blow out the candle we think of the flame as the colour of our faith.
The light of Christ in every day.

Here are our costumes we designed for our chapel service...