Chapel Time with Pastor Geoff September 2013 Today your child participated in our monthly Chapel Time. The goal of our chapel time is to introduce the children to the basic concepts of the Christian faith and practices. Our intention is not to convert your child or indoctrinate them. Rather, we seek to share with them stories that can instruct them regardless of their religious affiliation. As with our overall preschool program, we hope that this time will help them become loving and caring citizens of the world. Our subject for Chapel Time this month was the story of creation which is found in Book of Genesis. For Christians, this is a story about how all of life is of and from God. Important in this story is that God chooses humans to be special in the creation, and created in the image of God. Care has been taken to allow for interpretation at home as to how this Biblical story interacts with other views of creation. I encourage you to talk with your child about how they are special creations of God.

3. Our Father
Stand erect.
Raise arms and hands,
palms
open.
Raise face.
Smile.

4. in heaven
Look up, smiling.
Raise arms over head.
Hands with palms still
open.

5. Hallowed be your name
Lower head and eyes.
Lower hands to face.
Fingers cover mouth,
overlapping.
Elbows wide.

6. Your kingdom come
Raise head and eyes.
Spread arms wide.
Hands with palms open
and out.

7. Your will be done
Lower head and eyes.
Bring hands together.
Palms together.
Fingertips at lips.

8. On Earth
Raise head and eyes.
Spread arms wide.
Hands with palms open
and out.

9. As in Heaven
Stand erect.
Raise arms and hands,
palms
open.
Raise face.
Smile.

10. Give us today
Stand.
Look up with confidence,
arms parallel,
bent at elbows
hands together,
palms up and open,
fingers cupped

11. our daily bread
Swing elbows out.
Keep palms up and open,
overlap hands in front of
belly
palms still up and open
fingers still cupped.

12. Forgive us our Sins
Lower your head
Bring both hands up
tight to your chest

13. as we forgive those
who sin against us
Head and eyes stilll
lowered,
extend right hand
and left hand like a
crucifixion

14. Lead us not into
temptation but
Deliver us from Evil
Put one hand over your
eyes and another out as
to say stop

15. For the Kingdom
Raise head and eyes.
Spread arms wide.
Hands with palms
open and out.

16. The Power!
Clinch Your Fist in
Power

17. and the glory are yours
Extend arms full length,
face and head raised; smile.
Wiggle hands and fingers.

18. now and forever. Amen.

20. In the beginning the world was empty.
Darkness covered everything.
But God had a plan.

21. God separated the light from the darkness.
God said," Let there be light!” and the light
appeared.

22. God called the light ‘day’…
…and the called the darkness ‘night’.
This was the end of the very first day.

23. Then God divided the waters.
He separated the waters in the clouds
above from the waters in the ocean below.
He called the space between them ‘sky’.
This was the end of the second day.

24. Next, God rolled back the water to make dry land.

25. God made hills and
mountains and plants
of many shapes and
colours.
And this was the end
of the third day.

26. God put a
shining sun in
the sky for the
day time…
…and the moon
and stars for
the night time.
This was the end the end of
the fourth day.

27. On the fifth day God made all the different
creatures that live in the oceans and rivers…

28. …and birds to fly across the sky.

29. On the sixth day God
made animals to
creep, crawl, slither
and gallop.
And then God did
something really special!

30. From the dust left over
God made the most
wonderful creature of
all.
God made a person and
called him Adam.

31. The next day was the
seventh day.
It was now that God
rested.

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Presentation by Bev Evans, 2008
www.communication4all.co.uk