THE CHAPEL AND WORSHIP Hilton College is a non-denominational Christian College and Christian worship, values and principles are the foundation of College life. Pupils attend chapel service twice a week, including Sundays. Confirmation preparation, Bible studies and Youth groups all enhance the spiritual life of the school. There is a school chaplain who meets with academic classes once a week to discuss spiritual and life skills issues. About 40% of the school pupils come from Anglican backgrounds; 15% from Roman Catholic; 13% from Methodist; the other denominations are less than 10% each. Pupils from non-Christian religions are able to attend the College and respect is shown to them and their faiths along guidelines laid down from time to time.

Chapel services are open to all visitors and parents. The details and times are published outside the chapel and in the term calendar.

SCHOOL CHAPLAIN
The school Chaplain is Fr. Kevin Robertson (Anglican). Fr. Kevin joined the staff in 1992 and is himself an old boy (matric 1977). He is available to the boys for counselling, guidance and support. He can be contacted by email: kcr@hiltoncollege.com

CATHOLIC WORSHIP
The Roman Catholics constitute approximately 15% of Hilton College's schoolboy population. Provision is made for attendance at Mass every Sunday at 5.00 pm in the school Chapel and parents and visitors are welcome to join in this Mass. Pupils wishing to receive the sacrament of Confirmation are able to attend classes when they are arranged.

THE SCHOOL PRAYER

Almighty God, we give Thee humble and hearty thanks for our founders, William Orde Newnham and Gould Arthur Lucas, and for the great company of those who in the past years have served and built up our school.
We pray, O Lord, that Thou wilt make this school as a field which the Lord hath blessed; that whatsoever things are true, pure, noble, and of good report may here forever flourish and abound.
Preserve in it an unblemished name, enlarge it with a wider usefulness, and exalt it in the love and reverence of all its members as an instrument of Thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

THE SCHOOL HYMN

1. 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to Thee;
here at Thy feet none other may we see:
Lift up your hearts!' E'en so with one accord,
we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.

2. Above the level of the former years,
the mire of sin, the slough of guilty fears,
the mist of doubt, the blight of love's decay,
O Lord of light, lift all our hearts to day.

3. Above the swamps of subterfuge and shame,
the deeds, the thoughts, that honour may not name,
the halting tongue that dares not tell the whole,
O Lord of truth, lift every Christian soul.

4. Lift every gift that thou thyself hast given;
low lies the best till lifted up to Heaven;
low lie the bounding heart, the teeming brain,
till, sent from God, they mount to God again.

5. Then as the trumpet call in after years,
'Lift up your hearts!' rings pealing in our ears,
still shall those hearts respond with full accord,
'We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.' .