Join us as we celebrate and recognize FMC’s 2021 graduates. Pastor Claudia offered a meditation and charge for the graduates based on Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. We heard from 2021 graduates in interviews with Pastor Glenn.
Baccalaureate is historically a worship service honoring God through the recognition of those earning high school, college, or post graduate degrees. This morning we celebrate Baccalaureate Sunday as an acknowledgment that God has graced us with the abilities to teach, learn, and grow “in stature and wisdom” (Luke 2:52). Baccalaureate services challenge us to bless God through the developing of the gifts we have been given. We are invited to acknowledge that our abilities are not just for personal use but God-given gifts to be shared in community. As we approach the transitions that graduations signify, our Baccalaureate worship affirms that God is with us throughout all our days.
Worship Resources Acknowledgments
“Uyai mose (Come All You People)”
Text: Shona; Alexander Gondo; transc. And English paraphrase I-to Loh, 1986; Music: Alexander Gondo; arr. John Bell, ©1994 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications); All rights reserved.; Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“Lay one brick at a time”
By Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, 1957
“I Bind My Heart This Tide”
Text: Lauchlan M Watt, The Tryst: A Book of the Soul, 1907, alt.; Music: J Randall Zercher, 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal, 1969, ©1965 J Randall Zercher
“Together”
Text: Nathan Grieser, 2014, rev. 2018; Music: Nathan Grieser; acc. Jonathan Landis; ©2014 Nathan Grieser; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“Teach Me Thy Truth”
Text: Edith Witmer, 1937, Life Songs No. 2, 1938, alt.; Music: Walter E Yoder, Life Songs No. 2, 1938
“Go, My Children”
Text: Jaroslav J Vajda, ©1983 Concordia Publishing House; Music: Welsh traditional, Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards, 1784; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“Sizohamba naye (We Will Walk with God)”
Text: Xhosa; traditional Swazi; trans. John L Bell, alt.; Music: traditional Swazi, transcr. Swedish Youth Exchange project, “Meeting Swaziland”; ©2002 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084