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This is the opening session of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) 2022 Vital Worship Virtual Grants Event. In this session you will receive a brief introduction to CICW and the Vital Worship Grants Program, hear about what to expect from the 2022 Grants Event, worship around the Lord’s Prayer, and breakout group discussion pertaining to your grant projects.
Opening and Welcome
Worship: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Breakout Group Discussion
Wrap Up
Benediction
Opening Song: “Our Father in Heaven”
Words: The Lord’s Prayer
Music: Eric Wyse © 2002 Vine Ridge Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Led by the Institute of Worship Studies
Opening Prayer
Based on a prayer from Reformed Worship, number 68
Led by Kathy Smith, Paul Ryan, Satrina Reid, Nathan Glasper, Cindy DeBoer, and Will Groenendyk
Includes “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need”
Led by Becky Snippe
Text: Isaac Watts, 1719
Music: W. Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835
Psalm 131
Led by Hannah Barker Nickolay, Jackson Nickolay, and Jeff Barker
Song: “Take My Life and Let It Be / 나의 생명 드리니”
Words and Music: Chris Tomlin, Frances Ridley Havergal, Henri Abraham Cesar Malan, Louie Giglio © 2003 sixsteps Music, admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Led by Julie Tai and the Fuller Seminary Chapel Team
Prayer
Our Father in Heaven, hallowed by your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Led by Leopoldo Sanchez
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
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.
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
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.
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.
