There will be a fellowship dinner following the second worship service in the commons.
AU SUMMER 2019 BACCALAUREATE
Saturday, August 03, 2019
Program:
Opening Voluntary
O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing • Healey Willan
Processional
Lift High the Cross • Donald Busarow
Hymn of Praise
Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart! • No. 27
Congregational Prayer
Ben A. Maguad
Worship in Music
Children of the Heavenly Father • Sandell/Young
Katia Nikolaus, MMus, mezzo-soprano; Megan Mocca, MMus, soprano; Ronnie Zanella, MMus, piano
Offering
PMC Operating Expense
Dedication Prayer
Timothy Newkirk
Offertory
Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart! • Kenneth Logan
Scripture
Suzanne Mondak
Hymn of Meditation
Be Thou My Vision • No. 547
Introduction of Speaker
Andrea Luxton, President
Baccalaureate Sermon
In Case You Didn’t Get It
O.M. “Skip” Bell, Professor Emeritus of Church Leadership
Hymn of Commissioning
Go Forth, Go Forth With Christ • No. 377
Benediction
Elizabeth Oakley
Recessional
Dialogue • Gilbert Martin
Closing Voluntary
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah • Kenneth Logan
Fellowship Dinner
Pioneer Commons
Offering for January 10, 2026
Religious Liberty
Seventh-day Adventists have stood firmly for religious liberty—for everyone—for more than 150 years. But do you know the reason why? Part of the reason is that, when our church was founded, almost every American state had Sunday-keeping laws on the books. Adventist pastors, farmers, laborers, and others were arrested, jailed, or fined for doing “secular work” on Sunday. Even Wille White, son of James and Ellen, was arrested in Oakland, California, in 1882 for keeping the Pacific Press Publishing presses operating on a Sunday! But that’s not the full story. The deeper reason why we continue to stand for religious liberty—in the courts, before legislatures, and through the pages of Liberty magazine—is because we want to reflect the character of the God we serve. He’s a God who created us in His image and who has given each one of us the freedom to choose whom we will worship. He’s a God who, in the words of Ellen White, “desires only the service of love,” which “cannot be won by force or authority” (The Desire of Ages, 22).
Today, please help support this vital ministry of religious liberty. It’s a ministry that defends not only the rights of individual conscience, but also the ability of our church to continue to do its mission. And as we face uncertain days ahead, your prayers and support are needed now, more than ever.
—North American Division Stewardship Ministries