Collective Worship Week 1 – Home and Family Beginning 3 rd February 2008

Collective Worship Week 1 – Home and Family Beginning 3rd February 2008 Collective worship theme: Choosing to show you care for people in your family by doing what you say you will

For all mothers and fathers, Lord, receive our thanks and prayers

For the security of homes and family life, Lord, receive our thanks and prayers

For the joy of loving human relationships, Lord, receive our thanks and prayers

For your family in this place, and our life together, Lord, receive our thanks and prayers

Grant us the strength to always do what we say we will, even if it’s difficult sometimes. Amen.

Collective Worship Week 2 – Neighbourhood Beginning 10th February 2008 Collective worship theme: Thinking about how to care for your neighbourhood

Open our eyes to see what needs to be done

Help us to be the change we want to see in our neighbourhood

= Open our eyes to see what needs to be done

Collective Worship Week 3 – City/Town/Village Beginning 17th February 2008 Collective worship theme: Caring for those who are left out or hidden in our city, town or village

Collective Worship Week 4 – School Beginning 24th February 2008 Collective worship theme: Choosing to allow the ‘seeds’ of God’s word to change the way we behave in our school

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow seeds of love, Where there is injury, let me sow seeds of forgiveness; Where there is doubt, let me sow seeds of faith; Where there is despair, let me sow seeds of hope; Where there is darkness, let me sow seeds of light; Where there is sadness, let me sow seeds of joy. Amen.

Collective Worship Week 5 – Nation Beginning 2nd March 2008 Collective worship theme: Jesus’ words are a firm foundation for our collective life as a nation

Here I am, Lord – Body, heart and soul. Grant that with your love I may be big enough To reach the world And small enough To be at one with you. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Collective Worship Week 6 – Global Beginning 9th March 2008 Collective worship theme: Being aware that our global responsibility to all peoples and to our planet is more important than the things we have.

Dear Lord, I expect to pass through this world but once;

And any good thing, therefore, that I can do Or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature,

Let me do it now; Let me not defer or neglect it,

For I shall not pass this way again.

Collective Worship Week 1 – Home and Family Beginning 3 rd February 2008