2024 Alumni/ae & Friends Chapel
May 16, 2024
1:00 pm, Eastern
2024 ALUMNI/AE & FRIENDS CHAPEL
Prelude/Gathering Music
ORDER OF SERVICE
Welcome
Call to Worship
Leader: We gather to give thanks to You, O Lord,
People: with all our hearts!
Leader: We will sing Your praises before all creation,
People: and rejoice in Your steadfast love!
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Memorial AME Zion Church, Rochester, NY
Rev. Jacqueline J. Nelson Director for Student Support Services and Coordinator for Spiritual Care
Rev. Dr. Vincent W. Howell, CRDS ‘86
Leader: You have created us O Lord, and made us for Yourself.
People: In You we become everything You have made us to be!
All: Amen
Invocation
Hymn - Blessed Assurance (lyrics page 4)
Prayer of and for Community
Rev. Dr. Michael J. Ford, CRCDS ‘12 Chair, Board of Trustees
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Rev. Dr. Joseph D. Clemmons, Sr., CRDS ‘75
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalm 30: 1-12 (NRSV)
Rev. Julius “JD” Jackson, Jr., CRCDS ’13
New Testament Scripture Reading: Luke 24:28-35 (NRSV)
Rev. Sue Forsyth, CRDS ‘95
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Introduction of the Preacher
Courtney Wiley-Harris, D.Min.
VicePresident for Institutional Advancement Sermon
Dr. Erika D. Gault, CRCDS ‘06
Hymn: Great is Thy Faithfulness (lyrics page 4)
A Litany of Remembrance: We Remember Them
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism, CRCDS ‘20
Leader: Gracious God, from whose heart we come and to which we return, we gather today to remember and give thanks for the individuals of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School community who have died this year.
People: We pray that, encouraged by their examples and strengthened by their legacies, we may be more deeply aware of the goodness and fragility of human life.
(The following is a traditional Jewish memorial prayer for the deceased.)
Leader: In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them.
People: In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them.
Leader: In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them.
People: In the blueness of the sky and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.
Leader: In the rustling of leaves and in the beauty of autumn, we remember them.
People: In the beginning of the year and when it ends, we remember them.
Leader: When we are weary and in need of strength, we remember them.
People: When we are lost and sick at heart, we remember them.
Leader: When we have joys we yearn to share, we remember them.
All: So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us, as we remember them.
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Special Music
Reading of Names (Names listed on page 5)
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Dr. Cynthia Rasmussen, Assistant Professor of Public Theology & Eco-Justice in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professorship
Ms. Qhamora Kimbrough, Registrar and Senior Recruitment Officer
Ms. Polly A. Bush, Manager for Development and Institutional Advancement
Unison Prayer of Thanksgiving
God of all the ages, we thank you for these people and all the ways they have blessed us. Some are still with us. Some are no more. May the remembrance of their love, their courage, and their compassion call us to gratitude throughout our lives, that generations yet to come may give you praise until that day when you make all things new. We pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and in the name of Jesus, Firstfruits of Creation, Firstborn from the dead, Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. Amen.
Hymn: "How Great Thou Art" (lyrics page 4)
Benediction
Closing Remarks
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Dr. Erika D. Gault, CRCDS ‘06
Courtney Wiley-Harris, D.Min.
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Hymn: Blessed Assurance
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God
Born of his Spirit, washed in His blood
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Perfect submission, perfect delight
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Praising my Savior all the day long
Hymn: How Great Thou Art
Oh Lord, my God
When I, in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder Thy power throughout the universe displayed
Refrain:
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art
And when I think that God, His Son not sparing Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing He bled and died to take away my sin [Refrain]
When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration
And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art
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Hymn: Great is Thy Faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow Blessings all mine with 10, 000 beside
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
2024 ALUMNI/AE & FRIENDS CHAPEL
In Memory of Beloved Alumni/ae, Board of Trustees, Faculty, Staff, and Friends April 1, 2023 – May 1, 2024
2023
BAPTIST MISSIONARY TRAINING SCHOOL
Ms. Ethel Spiegler 1952 6/4/2023
Ms. Kiyoko Kasai Fujiu 1946 6/27/2023
Ms. Mary Louise Shrader 1954 6/30/2023
Ms. Dorothy Klyn 1953 8/14/2023
Ms. Marilyn L. Wallace 1952 9/13/2023
CROZER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Dr. Thomas J. Venables 1971 6/28/2023
Rev. Joseph P. Clay 1960 7/27/2023
COLGATE ROCHESTER DIVINITY SCHOOL
Rev. Dr. Malcolm G. Shotwell 1957 4/23/2023
Rev. Dr. Richard A. Bowser 1959 4/26/2023
Rev. Willie J. Seals, Jr. 1996 5/3/2023
Rev. Anne P. Paris 1988 5/18/2023
Rev. Randolph Bracy, Jr. 1982 6/17/2023
Rev. Dr. Allen P. Weaver, Jr. 1972 6/19/2023
Rev. Marvin Chandler 1963 9/23/2023
Ms. Carol H. Cowan 1999 9/24/2023
Ms. Nancy O. Travers 1994 10/12/2023
Rev. Dr. G. Kenneth Gates 1956 10/16/2023
Dr. William C. Larkin 1969 10/22/2023
Rev. Lewis W. Stewart 1985 10/27/2023
Rev. Clifford Sutherland 1969 11/8/2023
Dr. Elmer S. West, Jr. 1946 11/18/2023
Dr. John Afman 1980 12/31/2023
COLGATE ROCHESTER CROZER DIVINITY SCHOOL
Rev. Dr. Carol M. Garrett 2017 4/29/2023
Rev. Dr. Stephen L. York 2020 8/13/2023
Rev. Eleanor Lu Johnson 2006 8/26/2023
FRIENDS OF COLGATE ROCHESTER CROZER DIVINITY SCHOOL
Ms. Lois Stuber-Spitzer Friend 4/12/2023
Mr. Jerry W. Ligon Life Trustee 5/2/2023
Mrs. Rachel Linnell Wynn Friend 5/19/2023
Mrs. Carol McMillen Friend 7/22/2023
Dr. Gay L. Byron Faculty 12/6/2023
Ms. Virginia S. Pacala Life Trustee 12/6/2023
2024
BAPTIST MISSIONARY TRAINING SCHOOL
Ms. Betty June Murray 1953 3/25/2024
COLGATE ROCHESTER DIVINITY SCHOOL
Rev. Wilfred E. Moss 1982 1/2/2024
Rev. Pier Okke Postma 1979 1/30/2024
Dr. James E. Spicer 1956 2/9/2024
Rev. Shirley J. Moore-Krackhardt 1999 3/2/2024
Rev. Dr. Donald R. Holt 1979 3/9/2024
Dr. Theodore L. Bleck-Doran 1982 3/13/2024
Ms. Anne S. Fett 1958 3/29/2024
CROZER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Rev. William A. Ellsworth 1964 4/02/2024
FRIENDS OF COLGATE ROCHESTER CROZER DIVINITY SCHOOL
Mrs. Carolyn Osborne Hood Friend 1/10/2024
Rev. Norman J. Kansfield Friend 1/27/2024
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