Compose Music For The Opening Of A Movie

Here are some of the the opening lines for Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope. In the movie, the lines are accompanied by exciting music:

Activity: Compose some music to introduce a movie. See if your friends can guess the movie!

BONUS: Here is some original music by our Vice President Ed that would go great with a Darth Harley Star Wars movie:

Diwali will be a public school holiday in New York City starting in 2023

  • The time has come to recognize over 200,000 New Yorkers of the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain faiths who celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights,” Rajkumar, who introduced legislation to recognize Diwali, said in the press conference. She called Anniversary Day “an obscure and antiquated day,” as compared to Diwali, which is celebrated by a “growing number of New Yorkers.”

See: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/us/diwali-nyc-public-school-holiday-trnd-reaj

QUESTION: As children become more and more acquainted with the diversity of RELIGIOUS points of view on life, will the understanding grow that a particular religion is just one voice among many?

Christianity and Poverty

Jesus is famously recorded as saying that rich people should sell their possessions and give them to the poor, and that it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. But, this hasn’t stopped many Pentecostal Christian pastors from becoming wealthy. Here are the richest in 2022:

Top 10 Richest Pastors in The World 2022

The table below contains the names, net worth, ministry, age, and nationality of the top 10 richest pastors in the world in 2022.

 RankPastorNetworthMinistryAgeNationality
1Kenneth Copeland $760 millionKenneth Copeland Ministries62America
2David Oyedepo $150 millionLiving Faith Church (Winners Chapel)48Nigeria
3Pat Robertson$ 100 millionChristian Broadcasting Network91America
4Benny Hinn$70 millionWorld Healing Center Church69Israel
5Chris Oyakhilome$60 millionChrist Embassy58Nigeria
6 Joel Osteen $50 millionLakewood Church58America
7Creflo Dollar$30 millionWorld Changers Church International60America
8Rick Warren$25 millionSaddleback Church68America
9Jesse Duplantis$20 millionJesse Duplantis Ministries72America
10Bishop TD Jakes$20 millionThe Potter’s House64America
via https://rnn.ng/richest-pastors-in-the-world/

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Question: Is it right for pastors to get rich while their followers are poor?