BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
October 13, 2024 
 
Christ Candle Lighting
 
Centering Music—There is no shadow... [VT 419]  (Brenda Portman)
Will Wiebe-Friesen
 
Welcome & Prayer—Payne Claassen and Mary Ellen Hodge—VT 854—Mentee/Mentor
           
*Hymn —We Long to Know Her—VT 44
           
Children’s Conversation—Joanna Harader
 
Worship Music—Et in terra pax hominibus– [excerpted from Vivaldi’s Gloria (ca. 1715)]–
Chancel Choir; Joel Garber, director; Will Wiebe-Friesen, accompanist                              
Scripture Reading—Psalm 22:1-15—Hugo Boschmann
 
*Hymn—My God, My God—VT 696
 
Scripture Reading—Job 23:1-9—Hugo Boschmann
 
Sermon—When God Goes Missing—Joanna Harader
 
*Hymn—Joyful Is the Dark—VT 281
 
Prayers of God’s People—Emma Gering and Jill Robb— Mentee/Mentor
 
*Hymn—God, Be the Love—VT 43
 
*Benediction
 
Postlude—I Know That My Redeemer Lives [VT 347] (arr. Dale Wood )
Will Wiebe-Friesen

* You are invited to stand
VT—Voices Together
Keyboard- Will Wiebe-Friesen
Audio visual—Ben Lichti

Today’s choral and instrumental music features some creative settings of familiar hymns as well as some unfamiliar languages. The anthem, Et in terra pax hominibus, is excerpted from Vivaldi’s Gloria (ca. 1715), a component of the Latin mass. In English, its text reads: and on earth, peace to persons of good will. The organ setting There is no shadow… was written in 2021 by Brenda Portman and is built on the first verse of the hymn Great is Thy Faithfulness. The postlude, an energetic Easter hymn from the Sacred Harp, continues the themes expressed in the anthem and Psalm reading.