1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2026 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
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.
Joslyn Henderon, Sandra McCracken, Wendell Kimbrough, Joel Littlepage, Isaac Wardell, Daniel Tavani, Orlando Palmer, Megan Tavani, Kathryn Ritsema-Roelofs, and Ron Rienstra
“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.
“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.
