1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
© 2025 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.
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Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
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