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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
