Middle School Chapel
We began with a good old-fashioned Christmas Carol sing. Then students were invited to share their favorite family Christmas traditions. Many of these traditions involved food! We closed chapel with Mr. Lundeen reading The Story of the Christmas Guest as retold by Helen Steiner Rice, A beautiful story involving Christmas and serving Jesus by serving those in need.
HIGH SCHOOL CHAPEL
Tuesday: Advent is a time of reflection. A simple worship team led us in focusing on Jesus during this advent season.
Thursday: The choirs of Timothy led us in chapel. We also had a string ensemble prelude and a harp postlude. Mr. Wiener shared a short devotion on God working in extraordinary ways through ordinary people and then gave an invitation to silent prayer.
MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAPEL
A chapel of advent prayer. The students rose to the occasion by being reverent and prayerful. It was a holy time. In addition to singing, there were prayer stations: write down & pray for prayer requests and draw/journal. Also many students simply sat and prayed throughout the auditorium.
NEXT WEEK
Middle School: Christmas Singing and Story
Location: Timothy Christian Schools
HIGH SCHOOL CHAPEL
Tuesday: A small group chapel with a twist: all students were divided up according to alphabetical order by first name. Trivia: most popular girl name? Emily & Hannah. For the guys? Joshua & Michael. The groups discussed Christmas traditions and ideas to keep Christ the center of Christmas.
Thursday: The visit by the Lindloff family has become a high school tradition during advent. Mr. Lindloff was joined by his wife and three children (plus a little friend). He told the story by Jesus of how servants should act when the master is away. We should be wise and faithful and not live for ourselves. The servants did not know when the master would return, and we don't know when Jesus will return.
MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAPEL
Phil Zielke returned to Timothy to speak to the middle school this time. The theme of Phil's talk was perseverance. God led him through a long trial with cancer into a new direction. He founded Phil's Friends, a ministry that supports cancer patients in Christ's name. For more information (and opportunities to serve!) click this link: www.philsfriends.org.
NEXT WEEK
High School. Tuesday: Advent singing, Thursday: choir & orchestra
Middle School: Advent prayer
Location: Timothy Christian Schools
