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Open with God Book - Voluntary Work
Open with God Book - Voluntary Work
by Christine Odell
VOLUNTARY WORK Prayers for Various Occasions Reading John 13.12-17 If members are willing, have a display about the voluntary work members do. God our Maker and our Minder, we praise and thank you for giving us this world to be our home and our place of soul-making. We praise and…
Open with God Book - Wedding
Open with God Book - Wedding
by Christine Odell
WEDDING Prayers for Various Occasions Reading 1 Corinthians 14.4-8a 13 Flowers and music, lovely clothes, smiling families, sumptuous food; God of joy and laughter these are some of the happy things that come to mind when we hear that there is to be a wedding...
Imagining the Lectionary: Restarting with Abraham (Lent 2C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Restarting with Abraham (Lent 2C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Restarting with Abraham (Lent 2C) Reflection accompanying image “Restarting with Abraham” When a particular piece of software starts to behave oddly, becomes sluggish or unresponsive or is incapable of being shut down properly - perhaps bringing with it …
Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23
Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23
by Marjorie Dobson
Responsive prayer based on Psalm 23 Psalm 23 The Lord is our shepherd: we shall not be in want. When life is rushed and hectic and there’s never enough time for all we have to do: Lord speak to us of green fields and still waters and calm our souls. When we are tempted into the e…
Coats at your feet
Coats at your feet
by Marjorie Dobson
Dramatic monologue/poem: Coats at your feet Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 7: 55 – 60 How could you just stand there watching with hatred and anger in your heart, but your eyes unaffected by the sight of that cruel death? How could you be so callous and calculating, plotting …
Living stones
Living stones
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Living stones Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A 1 Peter 2: 2-10 Some stones were never meant for building,?? being sharp and flinty; jagged and easily broken. Unreliable. Others are round and smooth. They slip and slide, one against another: never bound together. Always moving.…
To be or not...
To be or not...
by Marjorie Dobson
To be, or not … thoughts/meditation on John 10: 1-10 Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A John 10: 1-10 I’m not sure that I‘d want to be a sheep. Silly animals they are, scared of their own shadows, following each other around and constantly bleating about something, or nothing. They d…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - St Valentine's Day
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - St Valentine's Day
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book THROUGH THE YEAR ST VALENTINE’S DAY By Stuart Kerner Suitable for Whole School Aim To consider what love really means. Preparation and materials • Prepare a large photocopy, OHP transparency or PowerPoint slide of the statue of Eros: som…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Television
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Television
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book HOW TO LIVE TELEVISION By Stuart Kerner Suitable for Key Stage Three Aim To reflect on the detrimental effects of too much television. Preparation and materials • Transfer the ‘Interesting facts about TV’ on to an OHP transparency or a P…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - St Andrews Day
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - St Andrews Day
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book THROUGH THE YEAR ST ANDREWS DAY By Stuart Kerner Suitable for Whole School Aim To reflect on the importance of trusting our lives to God. Preparation and materials • Four volunteers, two apples and two peelers. Assembly 1. Ask the studen…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - The Bible
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - The Bible
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book CHRISTIAN IDEAS THE BIBLE By Gill Hartley Suitable for Key Stage Three Aim To explore and appreciate the variety in and inspiration of the Bible. Preparation and materials • A Bible, preferably a good modern translation, carried in a poc…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Rules
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Rules
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book HOW TO LIVE RULES By Stuart Kerner Suitable for Whole School Aim To consider the need for rules. Preparation and materials • An OHP transparency with your school rules. • An OHP transparency with strange and stupid laws on it. You can fi…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Stay Alert
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Stay Alert
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book ASSEMBLETS STAY ALERT It was 1870. The position of wireless operator had recently become available at the local Steamship Office in Southampton. On the day of the interviews a large group of hopeful candidates filled the little waiting r…
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Learning from Experience
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book - Learning from Experience
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Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book ASSEMBLETS LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE Michael was 21 and had been working for a major internet company for just a year when he was unexpectedly promoted to the post of area manager. He’d never imagined that he would rise so far so fast, mu…
Imagining the Lectionary: faith-sharing - its as natural as breathing (Easter 2A)
Imagining the Lectionary: faith-sharing - its as natural as breathing (Easter 2A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Faith-Sharing – it’s as natural as breathing Reflection accompanying image “faith-sharing – it’s as natural as breathing” When we think of sharing our faith what usually comes to mind are words, lots of words, crafted with passion into sentences design…
It’s that man again, isn’t it
It’s that man again, isn’t it
by Marjorie Dobson
Dramatic monologue: It’s that man again, isn’t it. Second Sunday of Easter Acts 2: 14a, 22 – 32 It’s that man again, isn’t it. The one who used to be just Simon, but now seems to be called Simon Peter. I don’t know how he dared to stand in front of all of us and say the things h…
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