1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2026 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
A worship service from the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Order of Worship and Copyrights:
Opening Song: “Welcome Into This Place”
James Abbington, Atlanta, Georgia
Kathleen Turner, Salt Point, New York
Text and Music: Orlando Jaurez; arr. James Abbington © 1991 CMI-HP Publishing, admin. Word Music, LLC/Life Spring Music
Used by permission. CCLI #40063.
Opening Greeting
Emily Brink, Kai Ton Chau, Dale Cooper, Cindy DeBoer, Will Groenendyk, SooA Hong, Satrina Reid, Paul Ryan, Kathy Smith, Noel Snyder, Kristen Verhulst, Joanna Wigboldy
“Let All Things Now Living”
Music: Welsh tune
Piano: Rebecca Snippe
Song: “Father, Let Your Kingdom Come”
Text and Music: Latifah Alattas, Ben Cooper, Isaac Wardell, Orlando Palmer, and Liz Vice © 2017 Porter’s Gate Publishing
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 44:24, Jeremiah 51:15-16, Hebrews 1:1-3, Colossians 1:15-20, Revelation 21:5
Hannah Barker Nickolay
Jackson Nickolay
Song: “Jehovah Sabaoth (God of Angel Armies)”
The Aeolians of Oakwood University
Huntsville, Alabama
Recorded at the Calvin Symposium on Worship 2020
Text and Music: by Donald Lawrence
Used by permission.
Prayers for the World
Christina Edmondson
Kevin Adams
Song: “Healer of Our Every Ill”
Text and Music: Marty Haugen © 1987 GIA Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved. OneLicense.net A-703303.
Calvin University Women’s Chorale
Scripture Reading: Psalm 145:1-7
Zeeland Christian School Students and staff
Zeeland, Michigan
Song: “Thank You”
Grand Rapids Virtual Choir
Text and Music: Walter Hawkins © 1990 Malaco Music Group
Used by permission.
Blessing
Mark Charles, Kai Ton Chau, María Eugenia Cornou, SooA Hong, Chan Jang, Noel Snyder
“Deconstruction” is a popular term among young people who grew up in the Christian church. In this public lecture, Robert Chao Romero will consider the challenge of widespread deconstruction while offering a hopeful path forward. Expanding on Phyllis Tickle’s analogy of the church having a rummage sale of ideas every few centuries, Romero invites us to consider the contributions of Latina/o theology and the history of the Brown Church as valuable resources for reconstruction on the other side of deconstruction.
Carmen Imes has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the book of Exodus, writing about it for both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation. In this lecture, Imes will share some of the most paradigm-shifting insights she’s had while reading Exodus through an Egyptian lens.
Modern song writers are continually setting the psalms to new music for band-led worship contexts. Join Paul Ryan, Nate Glasper, and the Calvin University Worship Apprentices to sing contemporary psalm settings sung in public worship at Calvin.
“Deconstruction” is a popular term among young people who grew up in the Christian church. In this public lecture, Robert Chao Romero will consider the challenge of widespread deconstruction while offering a hopeful path forward. Expanding on Phyllis Tickle’s analogy of the church having a rummage sale of ideas every few centuries, Romero invites us to consider the contributions of Latina/o theology and the history of the Brown Church as valuable resources for reconstruction on the other side of deconstruction.
Carmen Imes has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the book of Exodus, writing about it for both her master’s thesis and her doctoral dissertation. In this lecture, Imes will share some of the most paradigm-shifting insights she’s had while reading Exodus through an Egyptian lens.
Modern song writers are continually setting the psalms to new music for band-led worship contexts. Join Paul Ryan, Nate Glasper, and the Calvin University Worship Apprentices to sing contemporary psalm settings sung in public worship at Calvin.
Join this excursion through compositional method, use of text, melodic creation, vocal range, and inner insights. The session includes the presentation of new psalm settings by Rawn Harbor.
