Hey all! Ms. Dorn here. Welcome to the OCHS chapel blog, where we detail our adventures in planning, leading, and experiencing worship! Our team is excited to give you an inside look at what we do in our classroom and in our worship services each week.
This week in chapel we looked at the first two verses of our school's theme for the year: Ephesians 2:8-10. As Mr. Dykhouse mentioned last week, he and I took on the task of planning our first few chapels for this year so our team would have time to get familiar with our planning process. Last week was his week to plan; this week was mine. Next week will be a joint effort, so stay tuned to hear all about what happens when two teachers have completely different ideas and have to put together a unified service without strangling each other... completely joking. :)
I will admit that I was a little stuck at first when thinking about how to dissect Ephesians 2:8-9. There's just so much good stuff in there - grace, faith, the relationship between salvation and works, God's gifts to us - how to fit it all into a 35-minute service?! I prayed over and read through this passage many, many times but kept coming back to the beauty in its simple message: we are sinners saved by God's grace and not by ourselves. What a freeing and humbling truth.
In this service we incorporated a few different styles of worship: worship through music, worship through listening to the Word, worship through congregational reading, worship through prayer, and worship through visual art. We opened with "All Who are Thirsty" written by Brenton Brown and then took some time to talk about God's grace and what it means for us. We then moved on to talk about faith and read through Hebrews 11 to get a clearer picture of faith. During our reading, we projected a show of art pieces depicting the various characters mentioned in that narrative.
We closed out our service with a time of prayer, thanking God for His plan for our salvation and asking Him to strengthen us in our faith. We sang one last song before we left - "From the Inside Out" by Joel Houston. This one continues to be a student favorite at OC and fit well as a response to the truths we had just heard.
After today's chapel I find myself feeling incredibly proud of our students. Not only am I proud of our committee members, who poured themselves into excellence in every detail of this chapel (light cues, punctuation in song lyrics, expressiveness in reading, musicianship), but I'm proud of the student body at OC for the way they worshipped. This is a group of young adults earnestly seeking God and I am so excited to see what He has in store for us at OC this year.
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