BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH

September 5, 2021

Labor Day Sunday

Prelude—Be Thou My Vision (Dale Wood)—Karen Schlabaugh, organ

Lighting the Christ Candle—Dawn Yoder Harms

Welcome and Land Acknowledgment                                                                                                                                       

Prayer                                                                                                                                               

*Hymn of Praise—Life-Giver, Maker, God of All—VT 38

Children’s Conversation—Esther Koontz                                                                                           

Scripture Reading—I Corinthians 15:58              

Sermon—A Labor of Love—Ken Lamp,Aaron Tschetter, Eric Massanari and Yolanda Kauffman  

Blessing—Jeremiah 17:7-8

*Hymns of Response—Be Thou My Vision—VT 549

Prayers of God’s people—Dawn Yoder Harms

*Sending Hymn—We, Your People, Sing Your Praises—VT 849

Benediction—Dawn Yoder Harms

Postlude (please remain seated)— Postlude on the Tune Bourbon (Robert J. Powell)

VT = Voices Together

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AV technician—Ben Lichti                                                                                                               ?

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.