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A worship service from the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Institution Name: Singapore Bible College
Participants:
Worship Leader: Joseph Lee
Narration and Scripture Readers: Joseph Lee, Mary Grace Adriano
Lament Prayer: Joel Navarro, Virginia Soo Tsai
Soloists: B Dau Nyai ,Benjamin Wu, Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng, Eudenice Palarvan, Joseph Lee, Natalie Megan Cheng, Senlilo Yanthan
Dance: Ann Palarvan
Music Arrangements: B Dau Nyoi, Dan Forrest, Mharhomo Kithan, Tony Clayton Chang, Virginia Soo Tsai
Call to Worship: Aprilia Wismanami, B Dau Nyoi, Eudenice Palaruan, Jovan Paul, Chirakkarottu, Kevichuno Soukhrie, Moses Lee, Sheila Ong, Sila Sethsophonkul, Thandar Aung Kyaw Soe, Zhang Yue
Choir Keyboardist: Kiew chieh Sing Evelyn
Choir: Ana Christiany, B Dau Nyoi, Blessing Tamai Oo, Toh Han Yi, Illiza Yeptho, Kevichuno Soukhrie, Mharhomo Kithan, Eudenice Palaruan
AV Editor: Aria Prasetya
Worship Design and Coordination: Eudencie Palaruan, Joseph Lee, Joel Navarro, Myrleen Grace Yup, Virginia Tsai
Location: Singpore
Copyrights:
“Come, People of the Risen King”
Text and Music: Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, and Stuart Townend, arr. Tony Chong © 2007 ThankYou Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“God of the Deep”
Text: Eileen Berry © 2015 Beckenhorst Press
Music: Dan Forrest © 2015 Beckenhorst Press
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“Lord of the Small”
Text: Joanna Anderson © 2010 Beckhorst Press
Music: Dan Forrest © 2010 Beckenhorst Press
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“God Is So Good”
Text and Music: Rick Altizer © 2007 Fuseic Music Publishing, admin. Peer Music
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
“What God Ordains Is Always Good”
Text: Samuel Rodigast; tr. The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941
Muisc: Servus Gastorius; arr. Virginia Soo Tsai and Mharhomo Kithan
Used by permission
“Hallelujah to the Lamb”
Text and Music: Debbye Graafsma, Don Moen © 1997 Integrity’s Hosanna! music, admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing, integrity Music, David C. Cook
Used by permission. CCLI #400063
Join us after the University worship service (chapel) for a conversation with worship leader Kimberly Williams. We will explore topics related to worship leading and planning for diverse congregations, leading teams, songwriting and recording, and mentoring women in ministry.
In this session Terry Wildman will share the vision, process, and outcomes of the First Nations Version (FNV) New Testament. Why was this translation needed? Who was involved in the translation? What were some of the cultural challenges faced by the translation council? What does it say about the translations done in Native languages in the past? How did the translation council decide on more than 185 key words and terms? What are some of the unique qualities of the FNV versus other English versions? How has the FNV affected the worship expressions of some Native believers? What is the future of the FNV?
How does one think about diversity as a Christian or as the church? How might working with and among—or even just thinking about—migrant neighbors contribute to our ecclesial identity? The language of catholicity allows us to imagine the unity of the church not in a monocultural way, but rather as a community inclusive of people of all languages and ethnicities. Migration and migrants today especially remind the church of its own catholic identity. How does the church's identity as a migrant church foster a healthy catholicity in the church's worship? This session will include the use of salsa music to invite participation in a more catholic way of life, asking what multicultural, cross cultural, and intercultural ways of being a church on the move might look like in worship.
Join us after the University worship service (chapel) for a conversation with worship leader Kimberly Williams. We will explore topics related to worship leading and planning for diverse congregations, leading teams, songwriting and recording, and mentoring women in ministry.
In this session Terry Wildman will share the vision, process, and outcomes of the First Nations Version (FNV) New Testament. Why was this translation needed? Who was involved in the translation? What were some of the cultural challenges faced by the translation council? What does it say about the translations done in Native languages in the past? How did the translation council decide on more than 185 key words and terms? What are some of the unique qualities of the FNV versus other English versions? How has the FNV affected the worship expressions of some Native believers? What is the future of the FNV?
How does one think about diversity as a Christian or as the church? How might working with and among—or even just thinking about—migrant neighbors contribute to our ecclesial identity? The language of catholicity allows us to imagine the unity of the church not in a monocultural way, but rather as a community inclusive of people of all languages and ethnicities. Migration and migrants today especially remind the church of its own catholic identity. How does the church's identity as a migrant church foster a healthy catholicity in the church's worship? This session will include the use of salsa music to invite participation in a more catholic way of life, asking what multicultural, cross cultural, and intercultural ways of being a church on the move might look like in worship.
As inhabitants of the modern age, we are deeply marked by skewed ways of thinking that thwart our humanness, our involvement with the world, and our spirituality. This is a philosophical tune-up that directly challenges and dispels modernity’s implicit philosophy. My philosophical proposals in my 2023 book Doorway to Artistry target the creative process, but they positively affect and bring healing to all arenas of life and work and worship. I pose that we as human persons are meant to live out a joyous “yes” to the real, and our involvement with the real takes the form of intimate encounter and communion. My approach reflects especially on God’s creative act and God’s created things. It taps epiphany, the redemptive encounter, and the Eucharist as paradigms for our knowing, our artistry, and all our everyday involvement with the world, so it should make us better at our stewardly dominion and voicing creation’s praise in worship.
