Prelude: “Lord of Love Unfailing” by Franz Joseph Haydn, arranged by Ellen Jane Lorenz
Welcome and Announcement: Roslyn L. Nowak
Call to Worship and Invocation
Praise and Worship with Chandru
Mission Moment with Marilyn Glover. A special video presentation is shown with Sharon Koh, Executive Director and CEO of International Ministries speaking.
Hymn: “The Kingdom of God Is Justice and Joy”
Moments of Prayer
Scripture: Revelation 21:1-5
Sermon: “New Heaven and New Earth”
Hymn: “Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing”
Benediction’
Postlude: “Sing to the Lord of the Harvest” by Dennis Eliot, to the tune Steurlein by Johann Steurlein (1575)
Organist: Ms. Marilyn Glover
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We Welcome Miranda Kwon to the pulpit today. Miranda is an immigrant from South Korea and currently pursuing a Th. M. in Biblical Studies while seeking to be ordained in American Baptist Church, USA.
Growing up in a non-Christian family, she studied music at New England Conservatory of Music (B.M.) in Hartt School, University of Hartford (M.M.). Then she studied Computer Science (B.S.) in Connecticut State University and worked as a Programmer/Analyst in Connecticut.
After becoming a Christian, she went back to Korea and served in an international ministry in Seoul for seven years. She then came back to Massachusetts to study at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2020). Miranda is a member of First Baptist Church, Melrose and has the Pre-Ordination License to preach. She is married to Woei Wang.