Published on
July 15, 2025
Video length
39 mins

This vesper service features music from the soon-to-be-released Sending Songs album by the music collective Porter’s Gate. Created in collaboration with Fuller Seminary’s Worship for Workers project, this album offers songs that commission God’s people with mission and purpose into their places of work and play.  

This service was originally presented at the 2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

Service Leaders

Joslyn Henderon, Sandra McCracken, Wendell Kimbrough, Joel Littlepage, Isaac Wardell, Daniel Tavani, Orlando Palmer, Megan Tavani, Kathryn Ritsema-Roelofs, and Ron Rienstra

Songs

“Bring It to the Altar”  
Text and Music: Paul Zach, Isaac Wardell, Leslie Jordan, Kate Bluett © 2023 The Porter’s Gate 
Used by permission. CCLI #400063

“My Friends, May You Grow in Grace”  
Text and Music: BENEDICTION; Stanza 1, 2 Peter 3:18; Timothy James Meaney and Sean Diamond; rev. Gregg DeMay and Gregory Kett © 1991, 2001 Wiseman Music; stanza 2, The Porter’s Gate © The Porter’s Gate 
Used by permission. CCLI #400063

“Your Labor Is Not in Vain”  
Text and Music: Wendell Kimbrough, Paul Zach, Isaac Wardell © 2017 Porter’s Gate Publishing 
Used by permission. CCLI #400063

“Leave the Rest to You” 
Text and Music: The Porter’s Gate © The Porter’s Gate 
Used by permission.

“This Time Tomorrow” 
Text and Music: The Porter’s Gate © The Porter’s Gate 
Used by permission.

“The Breastplate of St. Patrick” 
Text and Music: Wendell Kimbrough and Dan Wheeler © 2023 The Porter’s  Gate 
Used by permission. CCLI #400063

“Reformation Blessing” 
Text and Music: The Porter’s Gate © The Porter’s Gate
Used by permission.

“Rhythm of the Kingdom”  
Text and Music: The Porter’s Gate © The Porter’s Gate 
Used by permission.

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