1. Build your Character Habits @ Bishop Justus
Time + Effort = Success
Christian
Love
Evaluating &
Reviewing
Forward
Planning
Presentation,
Innovation & Creating
Ready &
Respectful
Teamwork
Resilience
Embracing
Challenge
Effective
Effort
Coherent
Communication

2. Harvest donations. How you can help …
The organisers of our local foodbanks supply bags of food to people in need.
To help the Foodbank have a good range of food available Bishop Justus School has been nominated as  ‘A Tomato School’
Please donate tomato food such as pasta sauce, tinned tomatoes, meatballs in tomato sauce, tomato ketchup (no beans or soup please)

3. Bishop Justus Church of England School
Morning Worship
Francis of Assisi - Patron Saint of Animals
4th October 2017
(prepared by 11N)
Bishop Justus Church of England School

4. Let the light of Christ shine in our lives
Gather
The Lord be with you
And also with you
Let the light of Christ shine in our lives

5. Receive
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Genesis 1:1-26

6. Engage
Saint Francis was born in the town of Assisi in Italy in At the age of 20 he devoted himself to a life of prayer. Three years later, Francis embraced a life of poverty and dedicated himself to God. Francis was a lover of nature. He took long walks through the countryside and studied its plants and trees. Francis felt that all plants and animals were part of God’s kingdom. He is the patron saint of those who care for plants and animals. His feast day is celebrated on October 4.

7. Engage Video suggestions …
Ten most incredible service animals (Therapy / support)
Top ten animals you didn’t know existed (Start at 48 seconds)
Some discussion ideas …
Why are animals important to us?
What do they offer to our society?
Could humanity survive without animals - how and why?
Discussion techniques - Go back to the Bible passage ask “How does the theme link with the Bible passage?”
Discuss the question in pairs for 30 seconds then invite a response from each pair.
Use quick-fire answers e.g. throw a soft bean bag / toy to a student, when they answer they throw it back and you quickly throw to another student.
Simplify the question - Invite quick one-word answers, write them on the board, then reflect on the answers – see connections.
Activity suggestion …
Write your own prayer thanking God for animals and nature

8. Respond
[Reflect for a minute on the worship theme and our engagement …]
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.
Amen
Peace Prayer of Saint Francis .

9. Go out into the world with the light of Christ
Let us bless the Lord
Thanks be to God
Go out into the world with the light of Christ

10. Harvest donations. How you can help …
The organisers of our local foodbanks supply bags of food to people in need.
To help the Foodbank have a good range of food available Bishop Justus School has been nominated as  ‘A Tomato School’
Please donate tomato food such as pasta sauce, tinned tomatoes, meatballs in tomato sauce, tomato ketchup (no beans or soup please)