For our service, I rewrote a few bits of it to make it flow a little better with what I had planned for it. Many years ago at Sumatanga we had a program on the prodigal son story that was set to music. They used stuff like Garth Brook's "Friends in Low Places" and other songs to tell the story and that program always stuck with me, so I recreated that using Coldplay's "A Message", "Money" from the Backbeat soundtrack, and "I Get So Jealous" by Tegan and Sara. When we did it at camp we just had song slides in the old slide projector format (bet some of you newer folks were wondering why there was a slideshow for that Garth Brooks song), but I used images to also tell the story and the effect was really powerful.

Here are the movie files I used:

The Younger Son: Money from the Backbeat Soundtrack (27.8 mb QT, compressed with H.264)

The Older Son: Jealous by Tegan & Sara (32.2 mb QT, compressed with H.264)

If you don't have the latest version of QuickTime you might not be able to play them.

Then we had a time of confession and communion. We did a couple of great confessions from Jonny Baker's Alternative Worship book. There's a confession of the younger son and a confession of the older son in that book. Great resource all the way around.