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© 2026 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Opening and Welcome
Worship: Give us this day our daily bread.
Breakout Group Discussion
Worship: And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
Breakout Group Discussion
Wrap Up
Call to Worship
Based on a prayer from Reformed Worship, number 68
Led by John Witvliet, Carlos Lemagne, Kristen Verhulst, and Noel Snyder
Includes “In the Lord, I’ll Be Ever Thankful”
Led by Chan Gyu Jang
Text and Music: based on Philippians 4:4-6, The Community of Taizé © 1991 Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, Taizé Community, France, GIA Publications, Inc., exclusive North American agent
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Song: “Come All You Weary”
Words and Music: Kate Bluett and Paul Zach © 2021 Integrity's Alleluia! Music, Paul Zach Publishing, admin. Integrity Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Led by the Good Shepherd Collective
Psalm 145
Led by Hannah Barker Nickolay, Jackson Nickolay, Karen Barker, and Jeff Barker
Song: “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Text: James Weldon Johnson, 1900
Music: J. Rosamond Johnson, 1905
Led by James Abbington and the Atlanta Martin Luther King, Jr. Ensemble
Prayer
Give us this day our daily bread.
Led by Janice McLean-Farrell
Call to Worship
Based on a call to worship from Gifts of Many Cultures, United Church Press, 1995
Led by María Eugenia Cornou, Kai Ton Chau, and Horacio Portillo
Song: “The Jesus Prayer”
Text and Music: Public Domain; translated to Arabic by Noel Jabbour; translated to Spanish Tracy Medrano
Led by Elise Massa and Noel Jabbour
Prayer
Adapted from a prayer by Thomas Merton in New Seeds of Contemplation, New Directions, 1972, p. 237
Based on a prayer from Reformed Worship, number 68
Led by Rosie Niemeier, Kevin Adams, and Becky Snippe
Song: “Abana”
Text and Music: Laila Constantine, Lebanon © 2002 Songs of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt, Council of Pastoral Work and Evangelism, admin. Faith Alive Christian Resources; tr. and adapt. Anne Emile Zaki, Emily Brink, Greg Scheer © 2008 Faith Alive Christian Resources
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Led by Joshua Davis, Joy Kim, and Dareen Sayer
Prayer
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
Led by Bill Johnston
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
