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'How much do you think you are worth?' - An Easter Collective Worship



BACKGROUND
The idea behind 'How much do you think you are worth?':
Who has switched the price tags in our world? The things that we should value most are so cheap; the things that are of little real value, people will do anything to get! The world was very similar 2,000 years ago, when they chose to nail a man to a cross for telling people to love their enemies. However, the Easter story does so much more than reflect the world we live in today: it challenges those deep assumptions and makes us question what we should really value in our world today and how much God values us.

IDEAS FOR PRESENTATION
This audio-visual presentation is on PowerPoint and is set to music. It could best be used in one of two ways:
  1. On its own, in place of a talk in collective worship, allowing the students to watch the presentation and consider the words by themselves.

  2. As part of a collective worship where some of the reflections from the presentation are explored more fully. The session could begin with students bidding for items in a mock e-bay type situation. Beforehand, choose several items that may look very valuable but turn out to be worthless, and vice-versa, e.g. a flashy CD player that is worthless because it is broken; an old VHS video which appears to be worthless but is invaluable to you because it is the only tape of your children growing up. Last of all, auction a person! What value is this? The actual cost of all the component parts of a human is around £2.80, so why do we think a human is priceless? All these things only have value because someone else is prepared to pay. The broken CD player would actually have some value to someone who could repair it and the video is only invaluable to the person whose children were featured. So how much do you think YOU are worth?

Now play the PowerPoint presentation (timed version) or (manually controlled version).

NB COPYRIGHT PERMISSION
The photos and pictures

The photos and pictures are all copyright-protected and can only be used in this presentation. Permission has been gained from each of the copyright holders for this particular presentation. Individual acknowledgements are written below each picture.

The music

The music, 'How Much Do You Think You Are Worth?' is by Graham Kendrick from the album Sacred Journey © 1988 Make Way Music and is used with permission. www.grahamkendrick.co.uk.

The Words

Please note, you may reproduce these words if your school has a Christian Copyright Licence. If not please contact Make Way Music for permission: info@makewaymusic.com

Technical notes

This resource is provided as a Powerpoint Presentation. Note that Powerpoint does not synchronise soundtracks and visual displays very well. If you find the images lagging behind the soundtrack on your computer, try closing down other applications (which may be running in the background), using a more powerful computer, or using the manully timed version. (With the manual version, you can advance the display with a keypress or mouse-click. Note that for repeated choruses, a sequence of three images is displayed instead of the words.)

Both these presentations are rather large, but the manual one will download more quickly.



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