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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
“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.
