BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH

August 8, 2021

Prelude—Concerto in G Major (Ernst/J.S. Bach)— Allegro – Grave – Presto—Chris Shaw, organ

Christ Candle Lighting—Jim Robb

Land Acknowledgement

Call to Worship and Prayer

Hymn—When in Our Music God is Glorified—VT 83

Children’s Conversation—Jill Robb

Scripture Reading—Philippians 3:4b-8a, 10-16

Sermon—A New Community—Nathan Koontz

Hymn—I Come with Joy—VT 478

Prayers of God’s people—Jim Robb

Hymn—God Be with Us—VT 613

Benediction—Nathan Koontz

Postlude—When in Our Music God Is Glorified  (arr. Robert Hobby)

VT = Voices Together

Worship leader—Jim Robb

Children’s conversation—Jill Robb

Organist—Chris Shaw

Audio visual—Francis Toews

Pastors—Renee Reimer, Nathan Koontz, Dawn Yoder Harms

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT for BCMC

Compiled by Florence Schloneger from words by Mark Charles and VT #878 Feb 2021

As we do on the first Sunday of each month,  

  we acknowledge that we worship  

  on the land of the Kanza, Osage, and Wichita.   

We thank them for their care and respect for this land      

  and acknowledge the injustice of their forced removal. 

We ask the Spirit to heal our histories 

  and find new paths of right relationships with them 

  and all of creation.