Welcome to the Wilderness

Darren Knowles will preach from Deuteronomy 8:11-18.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“As I Went Down to the River to Pray”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“This Little Light of Mine”
Text & Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.

“Let’s Walk Together”
Text: Laurie Zelman; Music: Mark A Miller; ©2007 Abingdon Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“My Hope Is Built”
Text: Edward Mote, ca. 1834, Hymns of Praise: A New Selection of Gospel Hymns, 1836, alt.; Music: William B Bradbury, 1863, Devotional Hymn and Tune Book, 1864

“Lord, I Am Fondly, Earnestly Longing”
Text: Elisha A Hoffman, Church and Sunday School Hymnal, 1902, alt.; Music: Charles E Pollock, Church and Sunday School Hymnal, 1902

“We have wilderness and dry land”
By Ann Siddall, adapted

“We Shall Walk through the Valley”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; adapt. William Appling, ©1970 World Library Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“We Shall Overcome”
Text: African American traditional; adapt. Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger; inspired by Charles Tindley, “I’ll Overcome Some Day,” 1900, members of the Food & Tobacco Workers Union, Charleston, South Carolina, and the civil rights movement in the American South, 20th c.; Music: African American traditional; adapt. Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger

“Silence My Soul”
Text: Rabindranath Tagore; Seong-Won Park; Music: Francisco F Feliciano

“There Is More Love Somewhere”
Text & Music: African American traditional

“Guide My Feet”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; harm. Wendell Whalum, ca. 1984, ©Estate of Wendell Whalum; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
Text: Charles Wesley, Hymns for Those That Seek…, 1747; Music: John Zundel, Christian Heart Songs, 1870

Family- He is Still My Son

Pastor Glenn will preach from Genesis 45:1-15.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Give Me Jesus”
Based on the traditional spiritual; arr. John Purifoy; ©2002 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Every Time I Feel the Spirit”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; arr. Joseph T Jones; adapt. Melva Wilson Costen, adapt. ©1990 Melva Wilson Costen

“Glory to God in the highest, and peace to God’s people on earth”
By Harold M Daniels, 2003

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Text: James W Johnson, 1900; Music: J Rosamund Johnson, 1905

“God of cosmos and quarks”
By Joelle Friesen, 2016

“Amazing Grace!”
Text: stanzas 1-3 John Newton, Olney Hymns, 1779; stanza 4 A Collection of Sacred Ballads, 1790, alt.; Music: American traditional, Columbian Harmony, 1829; adapt. and harm. Edwin O Excell, 1900

Meditation art: “Joseph embracing Benjamin” by Yoram Ranaan

“Kum Ba Ya”
Text & Music: African American spiritual; Arranged: Douglas E Wagner; ©1990 Heritage Music Press, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Total Praise”
Text: Richard Smallwood; Music: Richard Smallwood; arr. Stephen Key; ©1996 Bridge Building Music (BMI)/T Autumn Music (BMI) (admin. Capitol CMG Publishing); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153

Who Wouldn't Jesus Bless?

Zach Martinez, pastor of Sojourn Mennonite Church, will preach from Luke 6:17-26.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Prelude in E major, BWV 854 (from WTC Book 1)”
Composed by J. S. Bach, ca. 1722

“Give Me Jesus”
Based on the traditional spiritual; arr. John Purifoy; ©2002 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Poor Wayfaring Stranger”
Traditional Spiritual; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 Glory Sound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
Text: George Askins, Social and Camp-Meeting Hymns for the Pious, 1817, alt.; Music: The Columbian Harmony, 1825

“Some of us are exhausted”
By Joanna Harader, 2012

“O Prince of Peace”
Text & Music: Javanese; Saptojoadi (Indonesia); Text trans: Lawrence M Yoder, Mennonite World Conference International Songbook, 1990; ©1978 Mennonite World Conference; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Gracious God, when there is nothing we can say”
Presbyterian Church (USA), Book of Common Worship, 2018

“Jesus Loves Me”
Text: Anna B Warner, 1859; Music: William B Bradbury, The Golden Shower, 1862

“The Boys and Girls and Jesus”
By Ella K Lindvall, Read-Aloud Bible Stories, Volume 1. Moody Publishers, 1986

“Kum Ba Yah”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“Blessed Are the Persecuted”
Text: Tonga; based on Matthew 5; anon.; adapt. Esther C Bergen, ©1990 Mennonite World Conference; Music: Tonga traditional; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Blessed Assurance”
Tune: Assurance by Phoebe P. Knapp; arr. Pepper Choplin; ©2012 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“We Are People of God’s Peace”
Text: based on Menno Simons, Reply to False Accusations, 1552; stanzas 1, 3, 4 vers. David Augsburger, 1978; adapt. Esther Bergen, 1990; Music: Johann Horn, Ein Gesangbuch der Brüder im Behemen und Merherrn, 1544; rev. In Catholicum Hymnologium Germanicum, 1584; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

A Fishing Story

Pastor Glenn will preach from Luke 5:1-11.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Give Me Jesus”
Based on the traditional spiritual; arr. John Purifoy; ©2002 Lorenz Publishing CO, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“His Eye Is On The Sparrow”
Music: Charles H. Gabriel; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 GlorySound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Summoned by the God Who Made Us”
Text: Delores Dufner, OSB, ©1993 Delores Dufner (published by OCP); Music: American traditional, in John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Holy Spirit, Come to Us”
Text: adapt. from Latin liturgy, ca. 10th c.; John 13:35; 15:12-13; 1 John 3:16; 4:10, 16; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1998 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“In the beginning, before time”
By Wild Goose Resource Group, 2015

“Sing, Praise, and Bless the Lord”
Text: Latin; based on Psalm 117; Taizé Community, 1980; Music: Jacques Berthier, 1980; ©1991 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Save us, God, from being self-centered”
By John Calvin, 16th c.

“Tú has venido a la orilla (Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore)”
Text: Spanish; Cesáreo Gabaráin; trans. composite Gertrude C Suppe, George Lockwood IV, Raquel Gutiérrez-Achon, Willard F Jabusch, alt.; Music: Cesáreo Gabaráin, 1979, Dios con nosotros; Spanish text and music ©1979 Cesáreo Gabaráin and Ediciones Paulinas (admin. OCP Publications); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Be Thou My Vision”
Text: Irish traditional, “Rob tum o bhoile, a Comdi cride,” ca. 8th c.; trans. Mary Elizabeth Byrne, Ériu, Vol. 2, 1905, alt.; Music: Irish traditional, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909; harm. Martin Shaw, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt., ©1927 Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”
Music: George N. Allen; arr. Mark Hayes; ©1998 GlorySound, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Lord Lift You Up”
Text: Patricia J Shelly; Music: Patricia J Shelly; arr. Dennis Friesen-Carper; ©1983 Patricia J Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Strong, Peaceful Man of Galilee”
Text: Harry W Farrington, 1921, The Hymnal for Boys and Girls, 1935, alt.; Music: John B Dykes, Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861

Why Am I Here?

Pastor Glenn will preach from Jeremiah 1:4-10.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“I Will Arise and Go to Jesus”
Tune: Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835; Arranged by John Carter; ©1987 Hope Publishing Company; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Waltz in A Flat Op. 39, No. 15”
Composed by Johannes Brahms, 1865

“He Leadeth Me”
Tune: “He Leadeth Me” by William B. Bradbury; Arranged by Larry Shackley; ©2008 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Song No. 5, from Sea Pieces Op. 55”
Composed by Edward MacDowell, 1898

“What Is This Place”
Text: Huub Oosterhuis, Zomaar een dak boven wat hoofden, 1968; trans. David Smith, ©1967 OCP Publications; Music: Nederlandtsche Gedenckclanck, 1626; harm. Bernard Huijbers, harm. ©1984 TEAM Publications, OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Open our ears”
By Carol Penner, 2019

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 931, alt. © David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., © Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“There Are Many Gifts”
Text: based on 1 Corinthians 12:4-12; Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977, alt.; Music: Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977; ©1977 Patricia Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“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

“Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart”
Tune: Morecambre by Frederick C. Atkinson, 1841-1897; Arranged by Mark Hayes; ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Guide My Feet”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; harm. Wendell Whalum, ca. 1984, ©Estate of Wendell Whalum; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Will You Let Me Be Your Servant”
Text: Richard Gillard, 1976, alt.; Music: Richard Gillard, 1976; adapt. Betty Pulkingham; ©1977 Scripture in Song (admin. Capitol CMG Publishing); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through CCLI License #200093153

The Spirit of the Lord is upon... say what now?

Amy Zimbelman, Conference Pastor of Mountain States Mennonite Conference, will preach from Luke 4:14-30.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Be Thou My Vision”
Irish Folk Melody; Arranged by Mark Hayes; ©2004 Glory Sound, A Division of Shawnee Press, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Impromptu, Op. 142 No. 2”
Composed by Franz Schubert, 1827

“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
Tune: Lobe den herren from the Straslund Gesangbuch, 1665; Arranged by Larry Shackley; ©2006 Lorenz Publishing Co, a division of the Lorenz Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Come, Let Us All Unite to Sing”
Text: anon., ca. 1812, Millennial Praises, 1812; Music: Edmund S Lorenz, Notes of Triumph: For the Sunday School, 1886

“Come, Holy Spirit, enter our silences”
By Neill Thew, 1990, adapt. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee, 2019

“God of the Bible”
Text: Shirley Erena Murray, ©1996 Hope Publishing Company; Music: Tony E Alonso, ©2001 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Confitemini Domino (Come and Fill Our Hearts)”
Text: Latin; Psalm 136:1; English and Spanish stanzas Taizé Community; Music: Jacques Berthier; ©1982, 1991, 2011 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Praise with Joy the World’s Creator”
Text: Iona Community, 1985, alt. ©1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); Music: John Goss, The Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book, 1869; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Sicilienne, Op. 78”
Composed by Gabriel Fauré, 1898

“Go Now in Peace, Worship Continues”
Text: Mary R Bittner, ©2004 Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc., alt.; Music: David N Johnson, abridged; arr. Andrew Daniels, ©1968 and this arr. ©2020 Augsburg Publishing House (admin. Augsburg Fortress); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Will You Come and Follow Me”
Text: John L Bell and Graham Maule; Music: Scottish traditional; arr. Lloyd Kauffman, arr. ©2015 Lilly Chapel Press, LLC; ©1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Jesus, NASCAR, & the Church

Pastor Glenn will preach from 1 Corinthians 12:1-11.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
Text & Music: African American spiritual 

“Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”
Text: African American spiritual, Folk Songs of the American Negro, 1907; Music: African American spiritual, Folk Songs of the American Negro, 1907; harm. anon.

“There Are Many Gifts”
Text: based on 1 Corinthians 12:4-12; Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977, alt.; Music: Patricia Shelly, 1976, Many Gifts, 1977; ©1977 Patricia Shelly; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“As I Went Down to the River to Pray”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

“For the times we have lied”
By Anne Macksoud, 1981

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee”
Text: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.; Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.; acc. David Berry, 2019

“This Little Light of Mine”
Text & Music: African American traditional, ca. 20th c.

“In the Morning When I Rise”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; arr. Wendell Whalum, ©1978 Lawson-Gould Music (admin. Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Text: James W Johnson, 1900; Music: J Rosamund Johnson, 1905

“There Is a Balm in Gilead”
Text & Music: African American spiritual

Meet Jesus

Pastor Glenn will preach from Luke 3:15-17; 21-22.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“All Creatures, Worship God Most High”
Text: Saint Francis of Assisi, “Laudato sia Dio mio Signore,” 1225; trans. William H Draper, Hymns of the Spirit, 1926, alt.; Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; adapt. and harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, simplified

“If you are delighted”
By Marlene Kropf, 2007

“Over My Head”
Text: African American spiritual; Music: African American spiritual; arr. John L Bell, alt.; ©1998 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let This Mind Be in You”
Text: Philippians 2:5; Music: James E Clemens, 2008; ©2008 James E Clemens; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“You Are Salt for the Earth”
Text & Music: Marty Haugen, 1985, Gather, 1988; ©1986 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

Longing, Waiting, Hoping

Pastor Glenn will preach from John 1:1-18.

Worship Resources Acknowledgements

“Morning Has Broken”
Text: Eleanor Farjeon, Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931, alt., ©David Higham Assoc., Ltd.; Music: Scottish Gaelic traditional, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, 1888; harm. Martin Shaw, 1931, alt., ©Oxford University Press

“The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy”
Text & Music: West Indian carol, from the Edric Conner Collection of West Indian Spirituals; ©1945 Boosey & Co., Ltd.; copyright renewed; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“To Worship is to Stand”
By Jacob Trapp, 20th c., adapt.

“Solemn Stillness, Weary Streets”
Text: Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Maria Clymer Kurtz, 2014; Music: Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Maria Clymer Kurtz, 2014; arr. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee; ©2018 Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Maria Clymer Kurtz; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Santo (Holy)”
Text: Spanish; variation on traditional liturgical text (Argentina); Music: Argentine traditional; arr. Iona Community, based on two-part version as taught by Pablo Sosa, ©1990 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Longing for Light”
Text & Music: Bernadette Farrell; ©1993 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Vamos Todos al Banquete”
Text & Music: Guillermo Cuéllar, Misa Popular Salvadoreña; ©1988 GIA Publications; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Celtic Alleluia”
Text & Music: Fintan O’Carroll and Christopher Walker; ©1985, 1996 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Go, My Friends, in Grace”
Text: David Wright, 2004, A Field of Voices, 2007, ©2004 David Wright; Music: James E Clemens, 2004, A Field of Voices, 2007, ©2004 James E Clemens; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

One of Us

Pastor Glenn will preach from Luke 2:1-20.

Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Breath of Heaven”
Authors: Amy Grant & Chris Eaton; ©1992 Hal Leonard Corporation; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”
Music: French traditional, Chansons populaires des provinces de France, 1860

“When Peace like a River”
Text: Horatio G Spafford, Gospel Hymns, No. 2, 1876, alt.; Music: Philip P Bliss, Gospel Hymns, No. 2

“If you are delighted”
By Marlene Kropf, 2007

“In the Beginning”
Text: based on John 1:1-14; Chris Shelton, ©2015 GIA Publications, Inc.; Music: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, 1623; adapt. and harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, simplified; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“What Child Is This”
Text: William C Dix, Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871; Music: English traditional

“He Came Down”
Text: Cameroon traditional; Music: Cameroon traditional; arr. John L Bell; ©1990 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The First Noel, the Angel Did Say”
Text: English traditional, Some Ancient Christmas Carols, 2nd ed., 1823; Music: English traditional, Christmas Carols, 1833

“Mary Had a Baby”
Traditional Spiritual; Arr. Roland Carter, ©2021 Walton Music Corp; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Text: African American spiritual; adapt. John W Work Jr. (1871-1925); Music: African American spiritual; arr. Valeria A Foster, alt., ©2000 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084