Students will share their experiences during a special series of chapel services during Lent.
Lent is the season of spiritual preparation that precedes Easter. Beginning last week with Ash Wednesday, Lent is 40 days plus six Sundays. During the 40 days, Christians are encouraged to engage in practices like fasting and prayer as a way of remembering Jesus’s 40 days in the wilderness and as a way to spiritually prepare for the celebration of Easter.
Religion seniors preach in chapel services each spring. The theme this year for Lent is “Reflections from the Road to the Cross.”
“The theme has two meanings,” said the Rev. Dr. Charles Neff, vice president for university-church relations. “The first meaning being the story of Jesus’s life and ministry leading up to the cross. The second allows for more of the seniors’ reflections as their time at OCU comes to an end.”
John Hiller, Hannah Lampi and Taylor Barnett, religion seniors, and Phil Younts, Michael Horn and Olivia Coil, youth ministry seniors, will each preach in one service, beginning Thursday.
“I am so excited that I get the chance to preach in chapel,” Barnett said. “OCU has given me so much and to be able to honor that with my life and through my words is the only way to express my gratitude.”
Chapel services are at 1 p.m. Thursdays in Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel.
For more information, call Neff at 405-208-5060.
Editor’s note: Copy Editor John Hiller will preach at the Feb. 18 Lent chapel service.
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