Galilean service

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Our church has an annual lakeside picnic and worship service at Normandy Lake.

The worship, which is always led by the youth, takes place after dark, making it hard to video. Some of the audio from the worship is used as background music for the earlier parts of the video, and I used some stills to represent the worship service itself.

  • http://johnmeunier.wordpress.com John Meunier

    This is really cool.

    Is the service a standard order of worship? Or is there a special “Galilean” liturgy?

  • http://lakeneuron.com LakeNeuron

    No, it's much less formal, mostly some songs and a devotion of some
    sort, put together by the youth. The normal ending of it is that a
    boat comes ashore with an illuminated cross. It's dark by that time,
    and you can see the cross approaching from a good distance away in the
    lake. One of the youth emerges from it dressed as Jesus. But we've had
    drought conditions here the past couple of years, and the shoreline is
    considerably farther away from the picnic area than it would be
    normally, so they've had to stage it a little differently.

    This year, the theme had to do with promises ? we had broken shards of
    flowerpot on which we were supposed to write our promises to God. At
    the end of the service, we stuck our shards to a wooden cross, and
    then “Jesus” emerged from the darkness to see the cross.

  • http://johnmeunier.wordpress.com John Meunier

    This is really cool.

    Is the service a standard order of worship? Or is there a special “Galilean” liturgy?

  • http://lakeneuron.com LakeNeuron

    No, it's much less formal, mostly some songs and a devotion of some
    sort, put together by the youth. The normal ending of it is that a
    boat comes ashore with an illuminated cross. It's dark by that time,
    and you can see the cross approaching from a good distance away in the
    lake. One of the youth emerges from it dressed as Jesus. But we've had
    drought conditions here the past couple of years, and the shoreline is
    considerably farther away from the picnic area than it would be
    normally, so they've had to stage it a little differently.

    This year, the theme had to do with promises ? we had broken shards of
    flowerpot on which we were supposed to write our promises to God. At
    the end of the service, we stuck our shards to a wooden cross, and
    then “Jesus” emerged from the darkness to see the cross.