BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
July 30, 2023
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Prelude— Two preludes on Early American Folk Hymns:

Promised Land (arr. Diane Bish)—Antioch (arr. Dale Wood)—Will Wiebe-Friesen

Christ Candle Lighting

Welcome and Prayer—Sondra Bandy Koontz

*Hymn—When in Our Music God Is Glorified— VT 83

Children’s Conversation

Worship Music— Nun ist sie erschienen (arr. Larry Nickel )—Joan Griffing, violin; Will Wiebe-Friesen, piano 

Scripture Reading—Genesis 29:15-28; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52—Joe Peters

Message—The Kingdom of Process—Nathan Koontz

*Hymn of Response— My Love Colors Outside the Lines—VT 582

Prayers of God’s People

*Hymn—God, Whose Giving—VT 745

*Benediction

Postlude—Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (arr. Janet Linker)—Joan Griffing, violin; Will Wiebe-Friesen, organ

* You are invited to stand

VT—Voices Together

Violin—Joan Griffing

Keyboard—Will Wiebe-Friesen

Audio visual—Francis Toews