Every other Friday at 8:50 a.m. the gym/auditorium at Whitinsville Christian School is buzzing with activity. It's chapel time. An elementary gym class finishes up while the fifth grade tech crew wheels in a piano and podium. Other members of the tech crew open the soundboard and hook up a mic, while the elementary chapel committee prays together and receives some last minute instructions. The students file in by class and prepare for a worship and teaching time. By 9:15 a.m., the students are singing a closing song and prepare to return back to class, hopefully with an age-appropriate message in their heads and hearts. The tech crew whisks away the piano, podium and mic and a first grade gym class begins. Read more.

Through a generous grant by the Calvin College Institute of Worship, high school chapel worship teams from within CSI schools were invited to come to the Calvin Symposium on Worship that was held January 29-31 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Twenty-five schools took up the offer and sent teams consisting of students, teachers, and administrators. Due to the publication deadlines of this magazine, I am unable to report on the conference. So, I moved to a plan B. Read more.