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.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
A Psalm Talk by Jared E. Alcántara recorded at the 2026 Psalms 150 conference, with a visual prayer and embodied response from artist Dea Jenkins.
