Violinist Carla Trynchuk and pianist Elena Braslavsky will be performing a recital including works by Beethoven, Debussy, and the Jewish Ukrainian composer Meitus. Trynchuk, faculty at Andrews University, has performed internationally as soloist and recitalist in more than 15 countries. Braslavsky, formerly a faculty member at The Juilliard School and the Mannes School of Music, currently serves on the piano faculty of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. Trynchuk and Braslavsky were classmates together at The Juilliard School. This will be a FREE recital on February 22, at 4:00 PM.
AU 2024 Baccalaureate
Saturday, May 04, 2024
OPENING MUSIC
“O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing” • Healey Willan
PROCESSIONAL
“Lift High the Cross” • Donald Busarow
HYMN OF PRAISE
“Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart!” • 27
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
*Trevor O’Reggio
Professor of Church History
**Katherine Koudele
Professor of Animal Science
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“Munera Pacis” (“Gifts of Peace”) from Illuminare Elaine Hagenberg
Baccalaureate Choir
Cyril Punay, MMus, conductor
TITHES AND OFFERING
Prescott Khair, Associate Campus Chaplain
OFFERTORY
“Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart!” • Kenneth Logan
SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 3:14-21 NIV
*John W. Reeve
Associate Professor of Church History
**Stephanie A. Carpenter
Professor of History
HYMN OF MEDITATION
“Be Thou My Vision” • 547
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER
John Wesley Taylor V
President
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
“World Changers”
Jim Micheff
President, Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
HYMN OF COMMISSIONING
“Go Forth, Go Forth With Christ” • 377
BENEDICTION
*Brynja Davis
Assistant Professor of Speech-Language Pathology
**Pedro Navia
Professor of Spanish
RECESSIONAL
“Go in Joy to Serve the Lord” • Kenneth Logan
CLOSING MUSIC
“Choral Song” • Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Sunday Music Series with Carla Trynchuk & Elena Braslavsky
Something in Common Sabbath School
Resolving Everyday Conflict by the Peacemakers Ministries.
- January 31– Facing the flames of conflict
- February 7- A new way of thinking
- February 14- Go to higher ground
- February 21-Get real about yourself
- February 28- Accepting responsibility: Making an effective apology
- March 7- Gently engage others
- March 14- Get together
- March 21- Overcome evil will good
Everyone is welcome in the PMC Commons Rooms each Sabbath morning from 10:30-11:30.
Love on the Move
God's Hands 4 Kids, a PMC Grow Group outreach to our community serving foster, adoptive, kinship and guardianship families partnering with Berrien County Department Of Health and Human Services. As a gift to the families served by them and as a gift to the community of ministry leaders and professionals, we will be providing Hope for the Journey, a video conference on Trust Based Relational Intervention - trauma, on Sunday afternoons in February here at PMC. It is produced by Show Hope. For more information and to register go to our website GH4K.org
ZOOM IN! Summer Camp 2026
ZOOM IN! to God’s Amazing World at The Crayon Box Summer Camp, running June 1–August 20, 2026. Children entering Kindergarten through age 12 will enjoy a summer filled with nature, science, creativity, teamwork, and play as they explore how God’s hand is at work all around them. Each themed week encourages campers to notice the small wonders, big ideas, and amazing details of God’s creation. Located on the beautiful campus of Andrews University, The Crayon Box offers a safe, joyful, faith-centered place for children to spend their summer vacation with on-campus adventures, campus field trips, and visits from zoo and wildlife educators. Enrollment is open now at andrews.edu/services/crayonbox/summercamp. Space is limited. Forms are due May 18, 2026.
