Chapel Online

The Regent community gathers for Chapel in person and online on Tuesdays at 11 am (Pacific Time). You can find Zoom login details in the Weekly Announcements email. If you don’t currently receive our Weekly Announcements email, you can subscribe by clicking the 'Subscribe’ button on this page.

If you are unable to join us at that time the recording of Chapel will be available on Moodle.

Welcome and Announcements

Introduction

Call to Worship

Adapted from the Communion liturgy of the Kenyan Anglican Church

Christ is alive forever
We are because he is
We are one body
We share one bread
Christ is the host and we are his guests
...
Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
We are brothers and sisters through his blood
We have died together, we will rise together, we will together

God of the Bible

© 2001 Words by Shirley Erena Murray and Music by Tony Alonso

God of the Bible God in the Gospel
Hope seen in Jesus hope yet to come
You are our center daylight or darkness
Freedom or prison you are our home

   Fresh as the morning
   Sure as the sunrise
   God always faithful
   You do not change
   (Repeat)

God in our struggles God in our hunger
Suffering with us taking our part
Still you empow'r us mothering Spirit
Feeding sustaining from your own heart

Those without status those who are nothing
You have made royal gifted with rights
Chosen as partners midwives of justice
Birthing new systems lighting new lights

Hope we must carry shining and certain
Through all our turmoil terror and loss
Bonding us gladly one to the other
Till our world changes facing the cross

Testimony

Freeman Lam

Thank you for bearing witness to the work of God in and through
and for you. We bless you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.
The Lord bless you and keep you
The Lord make his face shine upon you
The Lord turn towards you and give you peace

Silent Reflection

When and how have you experienced the grace of God in friendship?
In what ways have you experienced pain and disappointment in friendship?
How is God calling you to offer and receive the gift of deeper friendship?

The Summons (Kelvingrove)

© Words and Music by Graham Maule, John L. Bell and Lionel Dakers

Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown?
Will you let my name be known?
Will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?

Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare?
Should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?

Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean?
And do such as this unseen?
And admit to what I mean in you and you in me?

Will you love the you you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you've found?
To reshape the world around?
Through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?

Lord your summons echoes true when you but call my name
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same
In your company I'll go
Where your love and footsteps show
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me
And you in me

Prayers of the People

What A Friend We Have In Jesus

© 2011 arranged by Mark Burrows | Words and music by Joseph M. Scriven and Charles Converse

What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit
Oh what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer

   Yesu kwetu ni rafiki (repeat)
   Maombi asikia (repeat)

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged
Take it to the Lord in prayer
Can we find a friend so faithful
Who will all our sorrows share
Jesus knows our every weakness
Take it to the Lord in prayer

Are we weak and heavy laden
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior still our refuge
Take it to the Lord in prayer
Do your friends despise forsake you
Take it to the Lord in prayer
In His arms He'll take and shield you
You will find a solace there

Scripture | John 15:9-17 (NRSVCE)

9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I
have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and
that your joy may be complete.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have
loved you.
13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s
friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does
not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends,
because I have made known to you everything that I have heard
from my Father.
16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go
and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you
whatever you ask him in my name.
17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one
another.

Homily | What a Friend We Have In Jesus?

Hannah Hawksbee

Passing the Peace

Let Us Be Known By Our Love

© Words and Music by Micah Massey, Ryan Flanigan, Matt Armstrong and Nate Moore

Let us be known by our love
In every word, in every deed honor the Son
Let our light shine in every eye
Let us be known by our love

   For the glory of the Father
   For the glory of the Son
   For the glory of the Spirit
   Let us be known by our love

Let us be known by our joy
In every home, in every heart sing to the Lord
Let our life show goodness and hope
Let us be known by our joy

   For the glory of the Father
   For the glory of the Son
   For the glory of the Spirit
   Let us be known by our joy

Let us be known by our peace
In every town, in every tribe Jesus is King
Let us go forth, heal and restore
Let us be known by our peace

   For the glory of the Father
   For the glory of the Son
   For the glory of the Spirit
   Let us be known by our peace
   Let us be known by our joy
   Let us be known by our love

Benediction

Diane Stinton | Dean of Students; Associate Professor of Mission Studies and World Christianity

Community Life Update

Jeff Greenman | President; Professor of Theology and Ethics