BETHEL COLLEGE MENNONITE CHURCH
June 6, 2021, 9:30 am

Prelude                           “Amidst Life’s Storms”  a hymn medley of
                                             VT 128 “Wakantanka” 
                                         VT 286 “Fierce Raged the Tempest”
                                          VT 595 “When the storms of life are raging”
                                                             Pat Friesen, piano
                                       (Pat invites you to follow along in your hymnal)

Lighting the Christ Candle                                                                             Bill Swartley

Land Acknowledgement

Welcome and Prayer                                                                   

Hymn of praise                        Sing Praise to God Who Reigns                            VT 101

Children’s Conversation                                                                          Megan Kohlman

Scripture reading                      Excerpts from Psalm 107
                                                  Mark 4:35-41

Sermon                                       Great Storm, Great Calm               Dawn Yoder Harms

Hymns of response                         Calm me, Lord                                                 VT 680

                                          Calm us, Lord, as you calmed the storm;
                                           still us, Lord, and keep us from harm.
                                             Let all the tumult within us cease:
                                             enfold us, Lord, in your peace.
How firm a foundation                                           VT 592

Dedication of the New Church Year
     Dale Schrag (Gifts Discernment Committee and Church Board) and
     Dawn Yoder Harms

Congregation responds:

We pray for wisdom, patience, and hope in this calling.
May we share the gifts entrusted to us with confidence and humility.
May we grow into the mind and spirit of Christ through our service.
Prayers of God’s People                                                                     Bill Swartey

Sending hymn                                 Guide our feet                                                  VT 816
                                                  (please sing “our”, “we”)

Benediction                                                                                          Dawn Yoder Harms

Postlude

                                                 VT—Voices Together

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Musicians—Pat Friesen, Renee Reimer, Esther Koontz, Ben Lichti,
Doug Harms, Bill Swartley
Audio Visual—Ken Lamp
Pastors—Renee Reimer, Nathan Koontz, Dawn Yoder Harms

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT for BCMC
created by Florence Schloneger
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.