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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
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
