Remembrance - Hope

Written By:
Guy Houchen

Themes: Remembrance Day, peace

Type: Powerpoint

Bible Refs: Psalm 9:18, Heb 6:18-20

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We used this Power Point file as part of an act of Remembrance last year. Our music team played ‘What a Wonderful World’ (made popular by Louis Armstrong) as the slides scrolled round. The idea for the music came from the film ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ used (in that case) as juxtaposition against the harsh images of war. However, rather than leave it at a place of hopelessness we wanted to consider the hope that Christ brings into all situations – including war. The music therefore goes on to provide a backdrop for the images of hope in conjunction with the Bible references.

A music score is available from www.musicnotes.com

(Remembrance Day is on the 11th of November in the UK)

Guy is from Bloxham near Banbury, proud parent of Dan and Anna and excellent husband to Caron. Likes guitars, bikes, creativity and food with friends. He works part-time at Banbury Community Church co-ordinating the music and worship and is a self-employed guitar tutor. He has also studied Theology Music and Worship at London School of Theology.

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Peter Lusmore

29 Oct 2009 14:14

A small point, the first slide entitled "World War 1" is actually a shot from World War 2 - the uniforms of the GIs are not from WW1, in fact the shot looks like it was taken following the liberation of a forced labour camp of some sort as teh striped clothing is typical of concentration/labour camps.

Peter Lusmore

29 Oct 2009 14:17

Just found the original it is Buchenwald Concentration Camp after it was liberated on April 11, 1945 by soldiers from the Sixth Armoured Division of the US Third Army

Sara Hargreaves

29 Oct 2009 15:36

Oops! Thank you Peter for noticing - it's one of those things that is nicer to find out before hand rather than having a queue of knowledgeable people after the service... I'll make a start at finding an alternative image and will post another comment when I've updated the ppt.

Sara Hargreaves

29 Oct 2009 16:24

All updated and done! The second slide is now depicting British soldiers in the trenches.

Simon

05 Nov 2009 17:38

Should there be some text with slide 20? If there should be, could you please tell me what it is meant to be.

Kieran Metcalfe

08 Nov 2009 22:29

Used this tonight in our evening service where we didn't want a full blown Remembrance service, but felt it needed to be included in the theme. We didn't really have time to rehearse the song, so I used an mp3 instead (and tweaked the slide show slightly to fit the length... sorry!).

But it was really well received, and the choice of "What a wonderful world" to go with it was brilliant - the clash between the images and lyrics in the first half was profound, but then added to the hope in the second half.

Thanks for sharing this :) K

Anderson Marsh

15 Nov 2010 09:38

I used this yesterday morning, very powerful images, thank you

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