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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
Teenagers’ desire to encounter God has been realized throughout history as youth ministry has grown and evolved. Indeed, teenagers have expressed needs and desires to practice and grow their faith at church, school, and home as well as at camps and conferences or on short- and long-term mission trips. On the one hand, these worship efforts have been deeply formative. On the other hand, these worship efforts have focused on attracting and keeping teenagers as much as, if not more than, on spiritual formation. This session will identify key historical patterns in adolescent worship and examine how we might engage their wisdom for faithful worship practices with teenagers today.
Songs from the people of Korea can deeply enrich your liturgy whether you have Korean-speaking members in your congregation or not. This workshop will introduce a variety of bilingual Korean-English songs that have been newly translated in the past few years as well as strategies to lead them effectively in your own worshiping context.
In this panel, Hispanic pastors share the learnings and experiences lived by their congregations after completing projects related to the development of their understanding and practices about worship. Together, they represent a variety of Hispanic denominations as well as of "dreams" they were able to realize (learning about the Creeds, bilingual worship, multigenerational worship, worship in non-traditional settings). Their congregations were part of the first cohort of Hispanic congregations receiving "worship grants" under a new initiative CICW launched in July of 2022.
Teenagers’ desire to encounter God has been realized throughout history as youth ministry has grown and evolved. Indeed, teenagers have expressed needs and desires to practice and grow their faith at church, school, and home as well as at camps and conferences or on short- and long-term mission trips. On the one hand, these worship efforts have been deeply formative. On the other hand, these worship efforts have focused on attracting and keeping teenagers as much as, if not more than, on spiritual formation. This session will identify key historical patterns in adolescent worship and examine how we might engage their wisdom for faithful worship practices with teenagers today.
Songs from the people of Korea can deeply enrich your liturgy whether you have Korean-speaking members in your congregation or not. This workshop will introduce a variety of bilingual Korean-English songs that have been newly translated in the past few years as well as strategies to lead them effectively in your own worshiping context.
In this panel, Hispanic pastors share the learnings and experiences lived by their congregations after completing projects related to the development of their understanding and practices about worship. Together, they represent a variety of Hispanic denominations as well as of "dreams" they were able to realize (learning about the Creeds, bilingual worship, multigenerational worship, worship in non-traditional settings). Their congregations were part of the first cohort of Hispanic congregations receiving "worship grants" under a new initiative CICW launched in July of 2022.
What basic models for worship planning are out there, and which patterns will work best in your context? Join a lively discussion of several worship planning models by the authors and pastors who use them. Bring your questions and suggestions as we learn together.
