Mel Lehman was the guest speaker for Peace Sunday. Mel is a long time peace activist and director of Common Humanity which focuses on peacemaking through understanding, respect, and friendship with the Middle East and Muslim world. Mel lives part-time in Hesston and the remainder of the time in New York City where he is a deacon at Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship. For more information about Common Humanity, go to commonhumanity.org.
BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
September 19, 2021
Peace Sunday
Prelude—Sonata #6 [Chorale, Andante Sostenuto, Andante]— (Mendelssohn)
Verlene Garber, organ
Christ Candle Lighting—Jake Friesen
Call to Worship and Prayer
*Hymn—What Is This Place—VT 22
Children’s Conversation—Nathan Koontz
Scripture Reading—Luke 10: 25-37—Elaine Schurr
Sermon—The Vastness of God’s Love—Mel Lehman
*Hymn—In Christ There is no East or West—VT 390
Prayers of God’s people
*Hymn—We Are People of God’s Peace—VT 797
Benediction—Mel Lehman
Postlude—Guide Me Ever, Great Redeemer (J. Bert Carlson)—Verlene Garber
VT—Voices Together
Audio visual—Ben Lichti
Flowers in Church—Kathy Stucky
Pastors—Renee Reimer, Nathan Koontz, Dawn Yoder Harms