Salutations, Cougars! Chapel is back and I’m stoked about it. I may be biased here, but Spring Arbor definitely has the best chapel around. If you’re looking at coming to SAU please (I mean it, please) visit on a chapel day. It is something that shouldn’t be missed.
For those of you who have no idea what chapel is like on campus it is comparable to a youth group. It is a very upbeat place to worship. People from all different places in their walks with Jesus Christ are welcome, we don’t turn anyone away. We have a rockin’ chapel band and you never know what the speaker of the day is going to talk about. You shouldn’t ever skip chapel because it just might be the day that God uses the speaker to give a special message that might hit home for you.
One of the coolest things about chapel is the worship. Nothing is more exciting than seeing the entire student body of one university gathering together and using music as their form of worship. Now, some people don’t like to raise hands or stand out in the aisle ways while they are in church, but at Spring Arbor, you can kneel, stand, sit, lift your hands high, cross your arms or not even sing at all. Just do what makes you comfortable, as long as you’re not disrupting the people around you.
Here’s the run down of a few rules for chapel:
- It starts at 10:05, be seated and ready to go at that time – you don’t want to be that guy that has to sit at the back because they came in late.
- Don’t use your phone for any reason (texting, emails, etc.).
- You have six chapel misses – use them when you absolutely have to.
- Don’t do your homework while you’re there (if you forgot to read a page in a book okay, but don’t think of chapel as time to finish homework).
- Don’t eat or drink in chapel – you may have missed breakfast, but put a snack in your backpack for later
- Sometimes there will be chapels on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday, be prepared and look at the schedule of speakers.
If they’d let me cheer at chapel I would, but that might be taking it just a wee bit over the top. I wonder if Ron Kopicko, the university Chaplain, would allow me to join Chapel band. For now a “Chapel is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!” will have to suffice.
Catch ya later, Cougs!
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