Pastor Harry Keuhl: You can remain standing for this. For history the white dove has been significant. I'd like to introduce Joe and his white doves.
Joe: Can I have Tyler, Brent, and Kelly come up on stage, please? Tyler, today, we celebrate the life of your sister and that she's gone home to be with her Lord in Heaven. Would you open the lid and symbolically release this dove, as a symbol of your sister going home to be with her Father on Heaven. (He releases a dove)
Kelly and Brent, since the day you were married, the Lord has blessed you both with His love, which you have shared with each other. And that love has resulted in your two wonderful children. Brent, as you said, we don't understand the evil that took your beautiful Chelsea from you and from Tyler. The thing we know for sure, is the certainty of God's love for you, and for Tyler, and for Chelsea. And we know He said, "This is my daughter in whom I am well please."
Together you made her into the wonderful person she is, will you together hold this dove, and when you're ready, release her to her Father in Heaven. (They release a dove)
You know my friends, at a time like this, we're reminded that we don't know the day, the hour or the year, but one day, we will follow Chelsea on that journey, and we pray, that like Chelsea, we will all dwell in the house of the Lord forever. We pray that in the name of Jesus. These birds represent each of us that will one day go home to Heaven to dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Release a bunch of doves)
Playing Michael W. Smith's "
This Is Your Time" (written originally for a girl killed in Columbine)
Pastor Harry Kuehl: How do you close a service like this? You don't, because there's still work to do. It reminds me of a story of a girl standing in front of a window when it was raining, and she kept saying, "Stars, stars, stars." He asked why, she said, because when the water hits the ground with the light you see stars.
Chelsea helps us to see stars. What needs to be done, the potential. As we celebrate her life and remember Chelsea, let us go out and do the work that we need to do. We need to make a difference and be the answer. We are the hope of tomorrow's world.
I pray that God will bless us and keep us and inspire us and make His face to shine upon us and give us His peace, now and forevermore. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Amen.
Now, on the count of three, say, Chelsea, we love you!
Please go in peace, but wait until the family exits the stadium.
Ending with the song Chelsea loved,
Vanilla Twilight.