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Join us online for Sunday Chapel Worship; the service will have magnificent music provided by Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music and Eric Plutz, University Organist. The recorded service is available Sunday at 8am here Chapel Service . This service will remain archived after the premiere (along with concerts and other amazing programs), and we encourage you to return to them whenever you might find that to be helpful.

Please note this is a fully virtual event.

Guest preaching today Sunday, June 13 is Rev. Yedea H. Walker, M.Div., J.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, Itinerant Elder AME Church, Director of Student Life Programs, Princeton, NJ.

Summer Service Bulletin for Sunday, June 13, 2021

Invitatory: Adoration by Florence B. Price (1887-1953)

Welcome & Introduction of Guest Preacher: Dean Boden

Call to Worship

Solo: Be Thou My Vision arranged by Richard Walters and performed by Sean Crites ’22, soloist

Reading

Sermon: Rev. Yedea H. Walker, M.Div., J.D.

Hymn: We Plant a Grain of Mustard Seed (New Beginnings)

We plant a grain of mustard seed, and in our faith we find the proof of God is love, indeed which blossoms from its kind; the proof of God is love, indeed, which blossoms from its kind.

Make love our purpose, love our aim, for love endures all things, and choosing love our lives will claim the peace forgiveness brings; and choosing love our lives will claim the peace forgiveness brings.

Our lives will be fulfilled and blessed if through the seeds we’ve sown and by the love that we profess the love of Christ is known; and by the love that we profess the love of Christ is known.

Pastoral Prayer

Lord’s Prayer: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for Princeton: O Eternal God, the source of life and light for all peoples, we pray you would endow this University with your grace and wisdom: give inspiration and understanding to those who teach and to those who learn; grant vision to its trustees and administrators; to all who work here and to all who bear her name give your guiding Spirit of sacrificial courage and loving service. Amen.

Benediction

Voluntary: Menuet Gothique from Suite Gothique by Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)

Today’s Guest Preacher: Rev. Yedea H. Walker currently serves as Director of Student Life Programs at Princeton Theological Seminary, and is an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Walker holds a Master’s of Divinity Degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, in Princeton, NJ; a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, AR; and a Bachelor of Arts in English Language Arts from Grambling State University in Grambling, LA. Rev. Walker is the mother of one purpose-driven daughter, Olivia Anaya-Faith Walker.

The University Chapel is a welcoming community of faith. We gather to sing God's praises, to hear God's living Word, to seek justice, and to proclaim God's love for all people.

University Chapel Staff: The Rev. Alison L. Boden, Ph.D., Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel; The Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel; Penna Rose, Director of Chapel Music; Eric Plutz, University Organist; Elizabeth Powers, Chapel Administrator; Edgar Gomez, Sexton; Lisa McGurr, Sexton

Calendar: All events are fully virtual and available online at chapel.princeton.edu. For additional info, please call 609-258-3047 or visit chapel.princeton.edu

Next Sunday, June 20, 2021, Summer Chapel Service. Our guest preacher will be Rev. Dr. David Buschman, Baptist Chaplain & Chaplain for Athletes in Action at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Summer Preacher Schedule Continues:

Sunday, June 27 - Brian Lee, Clergy Candidate in the Mountain Sky Conference of the UMC, Denver, CO

Sunday, July 4 - Jenna Reed, Princeton Chapel PTS Seminary Intern 2019-20, St. Andrews, Scotland

Sunday, July 11 - Rev. Dr. Aqueelah Ligonde, PCUSA & Ministry Architects & Ministry Incubators Interim Pastor/Coach/Consultant in New York City, NY

Sunday, July 18 - Mark Elsdon, Executive Director at Pres House at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Sunday, July 25 - Rev. Julie Wilson, Missionary at the UMC General Board of Global Ministries, Winston-Salem, NC

Sunday, Aug 1 - Rev. Stanley A. Williams, III, Assistant Pastor at Zion Temple United Church of Christ, Durham, NC

Sunday, Aug 8 - Shannon Sullivan, Senior Pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church, Frederick, MD

Sunday, Aug 15 - Dwalunda Alexander, Preaching Associate at Greater Saint Stephen First Church, Fort Worth, TX

Sunday, Aug 22 - Hector Herrera III, Associate Pastor at Tokyo Union Church, Tokyo, Japan