Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Offers Resources, Co-sponsors Concert
Urban Doxology in concert
As autumn unfolds and the season of Advent nears, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is offering a range of resources and other materials as well as co-sponsoring a special concert by a band named Urban Doxology.
Urban Doxology will be in concert at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27 in the Calvin College Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public. No ticket is required.
Urban Doxology is a band “that writes the soundtrack of reconciliation in the racially diverse and gentrifying neighborhood of Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia.
They are an active part of East End Fellowship, a community that endeavors to be a faithful presence seeking God’s joy and justice for their neighborhood out of love for Christ,” says the website for the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship.
Resources on the website also include a variety of ideas from which worship planners can choose as they put together services for Thanksgiving. Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on Oct. 12; the U.S. celebrates it on Nov. 26.
In addition, for long-range worship planners, the site offers a look at resources for Advent that begins on Sunday, Nov. 29.
Other materials include an edited conversation with Charsie Randolph Sawyer, a Calvin music professor who directs the Gospel Choir at Calvin College. She tours extensively as a concert artist, conductor and clinician.
In the conversation, she talks about her new book and CD set, Gospel Vocalises & Warm Ups: Engaging Mind, Body & Spirit.
Also on the site, is an edited conversation with Leonid Mikhovich, president of Minsk Theological Seminary, the first evangelical higher education institution in the Republic of Belarus.
He is general secretary of Baptist Union in Belarus and a regional pastor, overseeing 60 Baptist churches in western Belarus. He was a Summer 2015 visiting scholar at Calvin College, where he did PhD research and visited churches.
In his conversation, he describes what churches in Belarus and the U.S. can learn from each other.
There is also a reminder on the site that the 2016 Symposium on Worship will be January 28-30, 2016. The plenary worship services will focus on the later texts of Isaiah to remind participants that although God is a God of justice, God is also the font of all grace and hope. It was a comforting message for Israel and is no less a source of unending joy in the New Israel, the Church of Christ Jesus our Lord, says the website.
