Season of Creation Theme Service Creation and Creativity by Rod Sykes You Will Need worship leader/preacher two readers three further voices for Brown’s Museum of Invention” done in Reader’s Theatre “Doc format, or actors if you choose to do it in skit format: Doc Brown Marty McFly Jennifer, Marty’s fiancée props: white lab coat, large Bible Gathering Announcements, etc. Explanation of the Service (And teaching of the congregational sung response if the sung Eucharist option is chosen) Worship leader: Most of today’s service of worship is a celebration of the creation and the creativity of our Creator. Through dialogues, reflections, and short vignettes, we will explore the resonance between God’s infinite creativity and our human imagination. Joining me in the service will be a Bible reader, a speaker who represents the scientific perspective, and three characters from the much beloved movie, Back to the Future: Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Marty’s girlfriend Jennifer. (Possible location of Children’s Moment: Introduce a painting or drawing that one of the children has prepared beforehand that represents people dancing or doing some other artistic activity. Discuss with the children some of the other ways people engage in play that also requires work, since that’s what the creative arts involve. Lead into the idea that when God made the world God worked hard, but it was so much fun that it felt like play. For an alternative Children’s Moment, see page 10.) Creation and Creativity Choral Introit the Earth Had Yet Begun,” verse 1 (Voices United 301) “Before and/or Call to Worship When insight floods a human mind, when a solution arises in a vexed heart, when the light bulb goes on,
Season of Creation Theme Service Creation and Creativity by Rod Sykes You Will Need worship leader/preacher two readers three further voices for “Doc Brown’s Museum of Invention” done in Reader’s Theatre format, or actors if you choose to do it in skit format: Doc Brown Marty McFly Jennifer, Marty’s fiancée props: white lab coat, large Bible Gathering Announcements, etc. Explanation of the Service (And teaching of the congregational sung response if the sung Eucharist option is chosen) Worship leader: Most of today’s service of worship is a celebration of the creation and the creativity of our Creator. Through dialogues, reflections, and short vignettes, we will explore the resonance between God’s infinite creativity and our human imagination. Joining me in the service will be a Bible reader, a speaker who represents the scientific perspective, and three characters from the much beloved movie, Back to the Future: Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Marty’s girlfriend Jennifer. (Possible location of Children’s Moment: Introduce a painting or drawing that one of the children has prepared beforehand that represents people dancing or doing some other artistic activity. Discuss with the children some of the other ways people engage in play that also requires work, since that’s what the creative arts involve. Lead into the idea that when God made the world God worked hard, but it was so much fun that it felt like play. For an alternative Children’s Moment, see page 10.) Creation and Creativity Choral Introit “Before the Earth Had Yet Begun,” verse 1 (Voices United 301) and/or Call to Worship When insight floods a human mind, when a solution arises in a vexed heart, when the light bulb goes on,
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