Tyndale Chapel Podcast

SPEAKERS
Dr, Janet Clark, Dr. Ken Michell, Dr. Rebecca G. S. Idestrom, Dr. Yau Man Siew, Mallory Chow, Sharon Chuah, Dr. Marjory Kerr, Dr. Michael Krause

Dr. Ken Michell
The invitation to gather and worship is God's. God is the one who welcomes us. God is the one who calls us to gather in His name. God is the one who has made a way for us to follow Him and trust Him and serve Him. And God gives us words to speak in response, faithful and obedient response in worship. I'm going to read portions of Psalm 96 as our call to worship, and as you're able, I'm going to invite you to stand. The beauty, the beautiful language of the Psalms are both the word of God that we listen to as we hear God speak to us, and they are words that we offer to God in the company of of the believers, and so we offer them to God as well. The psalm writer says, "Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering and come into his courts. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness; tremble before him, all the earth. Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it. Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; Let all the trees of the forest sing for joy. Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness." Together with all of God's people, God's creation, we rejoice and celebrate in God's presence.

Dr. Michael Krause
Let's pray. Gracious God, we give You thanks for this occasion as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tyndale Seminary as part of the long history of Tyndale University before it. As we begin today, we invite Your presence to be active among us. Thank you for Your faithfulness. Thank you for the thousands of students who have come to this institution. Thank you for the hundreds of faculty. Thank you for the supporters, the alumni, all who have seen Your hand at work in this place. Thank you for the ongoing call that You've had on people's lives in order to see Your kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. For all of these things, we thank You and we invite You to be in the midst of our interactions today, our conversations, our presentations, our words. In all of these things, we pray that You would receive glory, we would extend Your name to the ends of the earth, and that we would see again Your kingdom come today. We bless You and thank You in Jesus' name. Amen. Please be seated. It's my privilege to welcome you today to this celebration of the 50th anniversary of Tyndale Seminary. Fifty years ago, just over a kilometer right behind where I'm standing right now, a few 100 students were meeting in the chapel of the former site of Ontario Bible College and Ontario Theological Seminary at 25 Ballyconnor Court. Probably less than about two dozen of them were seminary students in their first year, starting their first semester at a brand new seminary. The first graduating class was less than 10. The seminary building was a small two-story concrete structure with three and a half classrooms, some offices, and a lounge with one of those old bun coffee makers. Some of you have tasted that coffee. Rough drafts of paper were always written out by hand, and cut and paste was literally done with scissors and glue, cutting out sections of photocopied journals or and pasting them on your partially written sheet of foolscap. Final drafts were typed out with a typewriter and whiteout, and always handed in in person. So getting papers in late was a much bigger deal those days. A lot has changed over the years. We've changed our name, moved to a new building, adopted a robust remote learning approach, and technology in the classroom has gone far beyond overhead projectors and a 25-inch TV screen with VHS videotapes. From those humble beginnings, Tyndale Seminary has grown into the largest seminary in Canada, and among the top 10% largest seminaries in North America, but some things have remained the same. Those include our commitment to our mission and our students, and the blessing we've received from God, and through our faculty and our staff. I remember, I'm a graduate of Tyndale Seminary, I remember the faculty I had very fondly. Dr. Ian Rennie, our academic dean, was a visionary leader, networker, and a remarkable scholar who shaped the seminary. He taught history of Christianity and made made it come alive. And in class, we would always sing a hymn written in that particular time period that we were studying that day. The late John Kessler was there at the seminary when I was there in 1982, and he taught me Greek, not Hebrew, because of the scholar that he was. He went on, of course, to specialize in Old Testament, and was a Hebrew scholar. Roy Matheson, who still comes to many of our events, was our New Testament prof, and Don Leggett was our Old Testament prof. Rod Wilson, who's gone on also to other institutions, taught counseling, and he's come back actually as teaching counseling here as well. And John Wilkinson taught me youth ministry. Mariano Deganji and Bill Mccray taught me preaching. I didn't say made me a preacher. And Grant Gordon was our internship coordinator. There were many others, of course, but their commitment to excellence in teaching and to the spiritual formation of students continues on today. In 1976, I was just graduating from high school, but I did become a student at OTS in the fall of 1982, graduating with one of as one of only 11 MDiv graduates in 1985. I shared classes with some of our legacy creating graduates. I was in class with this year's Global Impact winner, Reverend Ram Kala, and also our Lifetime Impact Award winner, Reverend Philip Ralph. And among many others, we will be celebrating those people this coming Saturday at our homecoming event. I also shared classes with the Most Reverend Linda Carol Nichols, the Primate Emerita of the Anglican Church of Canada. She is the first woman to head the Anglican Church in Canada and the second female Primate in the Anglican Communion worldwide. Tyndale continues its tradition of "first woman to", fill in the blanks, among our graduates. I mention these names because Tyndale University has a rich and honored history, and our legacy has transformed the theological and ecclesial landscape of Canada, and in some ways the political and social landscape as well, not just here, but around the world. The legacy our graduates have left is rich and enduring, and this 50th anniversary chapel attempts to honor and celebrate that that legacy. I count myself privileged to be a graduate of Tyndale Seminary, and very proud to be a member of this faculty, and be able to serve as the dean. So welcome to our 50th 50th anniversary celebrations that started with last week's Blue Jay game, our Commencement Chapel, and continues with today's Anniversary Chapel, where we honor Janet Clark, our former dean, with a distinguished service award. Our celebrations will continue with the 50th anniversary banquet this Friday evening, with our featured speakers, Dr. David Gretzky of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and Dr. Frank Yamada, the executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, our accrediting body. And then this week we'll wrap up with our homecoming celebrations on Saturday, featuring a chapel, panel discussions, distinguished alumni presentations, and just a exploration of the current state in Canada and what to do about it. So as we go into this celebratory week, just want to welcome you into this process and give God thanks for all He has done.

Sharon Chuah
Well, friends, please listen as I read Tyndale University's land acknowledgement, which was developed specifically for our university in 2018 under the guidance of Elder Dr. Terry LeBlanc, and in consultation with individuals from Six Nations and the urban Indigenous community of the Greater Toronto Area, "For thousands of years, the Greater Toronto Area has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. It is part of the 'Dish with One Spoon Territory', a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee that committed them together to share the territory and protect the land. Other Indigenous peoples and Nations have subsequently entered this territory in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect. It is on these lands and in this spirit that Tyndale seeks to engage in its work." Mallory, I'll invite you up to read our scripture for the morning. Thank you.

Mallory Chow
Deuteronomy 8:6-18. "Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land- a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, and when you build fine houses and settle down, when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You may say to yourself, 'My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.' But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your to your ancestors, as it is today."

Dr. Yau Man Siew
It is my joy to lead you in a prayer for Tyndale. Part of this prayer is adapted from two prayers in the Prayers and Thanksgiving section of the Book of Common Prayer, Canada: Prayer 14 for Theological Colleges and Prayer 17 for Theological Students. Let us pray. Almighty God, we come into Your holy presence only through Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior. Thank you for sustaining grace for the last 50 years. Thank you for the many staff, administrators, and faculty, past and present, that you brought to Tyndale, all contributing to the enriching of mind, heart, and character, so that students can serve the church and the world for Your glory. Gracious God, grant that Tyndale may continue to be a home of faith and fruitful study. That all students who come through these doors may so learn truth as to bear its light along their ways. That they may learn Christ and be found in Him. Pour out Your Holy Spirit on them. Grant them a ready will to obey all spiritual discipline, that they may become faithful ministers in public spaces and of Your Word and sacraments in the church. Father, we look expectantly to You as we seek a new president and seminary academic dean. Thus far, have You provided these last 50 years, we trust you for the future. Keep Tyndale faithful to our high calling and Your high calling, we ask this in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

Dr. Marjory Kerr
He will always be holy, forever, faithful, forever. I don't know about you, I needed to sing those words this morning, and that alone has given me a blessing for this day as we gather. Well, a very good morning to each of you. It is my honor and privilege now to recognize the contributions of a very special individual, Dr. Janet Clark, and we are delighted that Dr. Clark's husband Blair and some of the family surprised Janet. Blair was not a surprise, but some of the family was a surprise here this morning. So a warm welcome to each of you, and I know that there are many others who are guests with us today in recognition of long-term friendships and relationships, and they have come to be part of this service with Janet this morning. A warm welcome to you all. On behalf of the Board of Governors and Tyndale University, I am delighted to present the 2026 Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Janet Clark, Dean Emerita of Tyndale University Seminary. Let me read the citation to you. Tyndale University's Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals whose life and work has exhibited exemplary service and commitment to living out the life of Christ in ways that inspire others to faithful service. Specific criteria include a person whose life and witness is consistent with the aims and commitments of Tyndale, one who has given exemplary service to the church, Tyndale, and/or the broader community, and a person that Tyndale would point to as modeling church life and service. Dr. Janet Clark's life and ministry have been marked by a deep commitment to Christ and an unwavering dedication to the task of theological education. She is a dynamic and passionate leader who has tirelessly devoted her professional career to the formation of those called to serve the church. Her influence extends across Canada and around the world, and her 15 years of dedicated service at Tyndale University have left an enduring and undeniable mark on the seminary, its faculty and students, and the broader Christian community. Before joining Tyndale, Dr. Clark served for a decade as a missionary in Indonesia, an experience that shaped her lifelong commitment to intercultural ministry and global engagement. She went on to teach at McMaster Divinity College and Redeemer University College, where she invested deeply in the formation of students and colleagues before bringing her gifts and experience to Tyndale. In 2005, Dr. Clark was appointed senior vice president academic and dean of Tyndale Seminary, a role she would faithfully hold for 15 years. During her tenure, she provided thoughtful and visionary leadership at a significant time of growth at Tyndale, as well as a time of change in theological education. She strengthened the seminary's academic foundations, guided the development of curriculum and new programs, was an early and ardent champion of distributed learning, and cultivated strategic partnerships. These initiatives expanded Tyndale's reach and influence, and have contributed to the seminary's ongoing vitality and ability to make theological education accessible to a diverse range of communities. Her years as dean were defined by her generous investment in the lives and vocations of faculty. With grace, wisdom, and humility, she nurtured their gifts, championed their vocations, and created space for their scholarship and leadership to flourish. Her enduring investment in the people entrusted to her care is among the most lasting legacies of her leadership. Dr. Clark's impact extends well beyond Tyndale. As a former president of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, she provided wise and steady leadership during pivotal seasons for theological institutions across North America. She has chaired numerous accreditation evaluation committees and continues to serve the broader academic and Christian community through non-for-profit board leadership. Perhaps most significantly, throughout her career, Dr. Clark has been a thoughtful advocate for the advancement of women in leadership within theological education and the church, her enduring investment in others has helped shape generations of leaders and scholars, leaving a lasting legacy of wise, courageous, and transformative women in leadership. Her ongoing work supervising Doctor of Ministry students continues her investment in the global church, helping prepare another generation of church leaders, scholars, and ministry practitioners. Beyond her accomplishments and titles, Dr. Clark's life is characterized by wisdom, integrity, and devotion to Christ. Her thoughtful and pastoral posture allows her to engage others with empathy, wisdom, and spiritual discernment. She has encouraged countless students, faculty, and church leaders to think deeply, serve faithfully, and lead with integrity. In recognition of her years of exceptional service to Tyndale University, her significant contributions to theological education across North America, and her enduring legacy of forming Christian leaders around the world, it is my great honor, as President and Vice Chancellor of Tyndale University, to present the Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Janet Clark, a faithful servant, wise mentor, and gracious leader. And so now I'm going to invite Dr. Clark, Chancellor Thornhill, and Dr. Kraus to please join me at the podium. Dr. Clark, in light of the citation just provided, it is my pleasure to present you with the Distinguished Service Award, which the Chancellor is holding, which reads: Upon recommendation of the president and in recognition of a committed life of service to Christ and exemplary dedication and service to the church, the Board of Governors of Tyndale University hereby bestows upon Dr. Janet Clark the Award of Distinguished Service witnessed at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this 22nd day of September 2026, the award is signed by Ross Clark, chair of the Board of Governors of Tyndale University, and myself. We also have for you a copy of the citation, which was read today, and I'll ask Dr. Kraus to present that to you. Together, these provide a lasting legacy and a lasting memory of the significance of your service and what this day represents for you and for Tyndale, and of our deep regard for you. Will you join me in congratulating? We'll get a photo. In just a moment, Dr. Clark will bring her message to us. But please, I invite you to stand, and we'll have a word of prayer together. Let's pray. Creator God, we acknowledge Your presence and faithful provision, and we thank You for the life and ministry of our sister and friend, Dr. Janet Clark, Dean Emerita. We thank You for her influence, for her faithfulness to Your call on her life; and for her lasting impact in the organizations and communities in which she served and continues to serve; and for her witness as a faithful follower of Jesus. We pray Your continued blessing on Dr. Clark, and that we in turn will be inspired by her influence to nurture and serve others as followers of Christ. We pray it all in Jesus' name, Amen, Amen. Please be seated.

Dr, Janet Clark
Dear friends, I'm truly deeply honored to receive this recognition, even though I feel somewhat abashed. I don't know why. I think it's because, at heart, I'm a small town girl who began her ministry life in an obscure little village in Indonesian Borneo, serving with my husband, raising four little kids in a simple house without electricity or running water, up the hill from a dirt-floored church. Never did I imagine my path would lead to Tyndale. In so many ways, I'm the most unlikeliest of deans, but oh, I loved Tyndale. I still do. Has a special place in my heart. My heart was just overflowing walking in here today and seeing my dear colleagues, friends, staff, faculty, administration, and most of all, to be with students again. It really, really means a lot to me to worship with you today. Anniversaries are a call to remember, and I've been thinking a lot lately about the spiritual practice of remembering. Over and over again in Scripture, we're called to remember, instructed, "Do not forget". Oh, there's so many references I could cite. Deuteronomy 4:9 is just one. "Be careful, watch yourselves closely, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Tell them to your children and their children after them." And again, in Deuteronomy eight, in the passage read by Mallory, God begins by painting a picture of the land the Israelites are about to enter, a good land with springs flowing in the valleys and hills, a land with wheat and barley, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey, a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing. But then the warning, for God knows how prone we are to forgetfulness; calling them to remember. Remember how the Lord led you in the desert those 40 years; how He brought you manna to eat in the wilderness; how He brought you water out of hard rock; how He led you out of the land of slavery. Then in verse 15, remember how God led you through "the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions". I've always shuddered at that verse because truly I have memories of venomous snakes and scorpions right in my own house, especially one big black scorpion skittering across the floor, inches from my daughter Robin's little foot. And so I've always been struck by this fact that God calls the Israelites to remember not just the miracles, the water, the manna, the provision, but also the vast and dreadful wilderness. Remember the whole story: high points, low points, turning points, all the interwoven threads of light and dark. Remembering is a spiritual practice for a flourishing faith, and in many ways, this is a very countercultural message in our day and age. We're so often advised to forget the past, focus on the future. How many times have we heard people say, "You've got to move on". But of all of you who are studying or ever studied psychology in counseling, many of you here, you know, burying or repressing the past does not make it go away. And so, dear students, it turns out that having a good memory is not just important in your academic life. Cultivating a spiritual memory, reflecting on the arc of your journey, the milestones, the miracles, and the dreadful desert, can be a source of wisdom, and insight, and anchoring truths to guide the way forward. So too with our collective memories, our institutional memories. What wisdom and insight can we glean on this 50th anniversary from remembering our collective origin story as a school? So I did some archival reading this summer on Tyndale's history. A key reference being a book written for the 25th anniversary of the school entitled, *For Christ in Canada: A History of Tyndale Seminary 1976 to 2001* by Tim Larson, and John Vickery. It's filled with inspiring stories of God working through faithful people, stories of answered prayer, spiritual convictions, turning point decisions. But what I appreciate most in the book, it also recounts the vast and dreadful wilderness, what was called the near-death experience, when it looked like everything was going to collapse. So here are just a few memory nuggets from the seminary's history, from our collective story, lest we forget. First of all, as as has been noted, while it's true that Tyndale Seminary is celebrating its 50th anniversary, the real origin story dates back 132 years to 1894, when Dr. Elmore Harris founded the Toronto Bible Institute, the very first of its kind in Canada, and what strikes me as significant in this origin story is, from the inception, the great design of the school was to not only educate clergy, but ordinary, committed lay people, men and women in the Victorian era, men and women for service in churches and Sunday schools and city missions all over the city and in overseas mission. Meanwhile, in London, Ontario, Dr. J. Wilmot Mahood founded a sister school, what came to be known as the London College of Bible and Mission. And what strikes me in this story is that he was 72 years old at the time. That's a conviction to me. The call of God on our life is a lifelong call. These two schools merged in 1968 to become Ontario Bible College, and a primary reason for that merger was to have critical mass to form a graduate theological seminary, which happened in 1976. And it's interesting to me that 50 years ago, when that new seminary was dedicated and the new campus over here was dedicated at the same time on Ballyconner, a crowd of 1500 people came, including quote "the press who streamed through the halls"; tells you something about the place of religion and how that's changed in 50 years. But from its inception, there were markers, choices, convictions, spiritual anchors that shaped the school's identity, and here are some. The founding vision was for a Canadian school, for the Canadian context. The seminary was birthed at a time when, quote, "a steady stream of aspiring pastors and Christian leaders was leaving Canada for big U.S. schools", and Dean Ian Rennie was a driving force in seeking and nurturing a whole generation of young, promising Canadian scholars or people willing to make Canada their home to to address the Canadian context. At the same time, the vision was global and intercultural. This is part of our DNA, Tyndale; this global vision of the church, God's love for all the nations here on our doorstep and around the world. Integrating faith and learning, right from the founding, the documents repeatedly emphasize that the school would not only be involved in the teaching of theology, but the practice of it in all spheres of life for faithful and hospitable orthodoxy. I find this so inspiring. Earlier on, early on, a choice was made not to get sidetracked in the raging theological controversies of the day, at that time, the fundamentalist controversy, but to choose instead, quote, "an ironic middle path", and trust me, that's far more difficult than you might imagine. Lastly, another nugget, strongly interdenominational, big tent evangelicalism, though the founders were primarily mainstream evangelical Protestants from the Reformed tradition. Now this may not seem all that significant nowadays, but it was at the time, the school opened its arms to Pentecostals and Wesleyans, including the Salvation Army, and look how wonderfully that ended up. With these convictions as founding guideposts and principles, the school grew and flourished. Enrollment doubled in the first five years. By 1988, it was reported that the biggest problem facing the seminary was how to keep up with the growth; and then it crashed. 1995, the near-death experience, the vast and dreadful desert is also part of our collective story that we need to remember. There was no money. The school faced bankruptcy and death. With one swift stroke, everyone, including the president, was laid off. The doors were shut and locked. You couldn't get back to your office. Quote, "It was a day never to be forgotten", but I think we're in danger of forgetting. I encourage you at some point-I won't do it today-to read and remember our collective story of how God, how when we had come to the end of all our resources, a new chapter began. How God called faithful people, Brian Stiller, along with Winston Ling, Lynn Smith, so many others, to forge a new path to start all over again, but the crash was more than a financial crisis. Quote again, "faculty and staff memories were raw with pain. So, as a step toward healing, a special worship service was held, called the solemn assembly, that included repentance for personal and institutional sins, and the surrendering of burdens of grievance, injustice, and mistrust." Remembering our collective story as a school, those miracles and milestones, and the dreadful desert; the story of confession and repentance, and starting again, bringing us to where we are here today; can be a source of wisdom and courages for the challenges we face even this day. As well as our collective memories, so too is the spiritual practice of remembering and reflecting on our own stories, our own spiritual autobiographies. I did some other archival reading this summer. I pulled out my old journals, beginning from young adulthood through the Indonesia years, all the years, the Tyndale years. It was not an easy read. I tend to write more in desperation than in celebration. It is the exact opposite of an Instagram reel of highlights. But I was on a quest to remember the spiritual truths, the anchoring texts, the life lessons that had marked my past journey, as a source of insight for the road ahead. Last week, I was on a retreat with five longtime spiritual friends, one of whom is here with me today, and together we engaged in the spiritual practice of remembering, reflecting on our spiritual autobiographies, using our old journals as prompts. We recounted to one another spiritual turning points, high points, as well as the dreadful deserts we had all experienced when we had come to the end of ourselves. Do you know what we realized? Some of the deepest life lessons we only could have learned in the desert. Oh, my friends, we are shaped as much by what we have survived as what we have accomplished. So the text gives us three points, three purposes for remembering, and I'll close with these. One, to give us holy perspective. Deuteronomy 8:12 warns that when the times are good, when you eat and are satisfied and settle down, when your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, your heart will become proud, and you'll say, "My strength has produced this for me." Oh, friends, this illusion of our self-sufficiency, of our own strength, will trip us up over and over again in our personal lives and in our institutional life too. Remembering will keep us humble, says verse 16, so that in the end it might go well with you. Second, second, the power of remembering is that it shapes our identity. Israel's rituals, practices of collective remembering, the telling and retelling of their origin story, their survival story, grounded them in their identity as God's chosen covenant people. They were unlike the other nations. They had a unique role and purpose in God's divine plan, so too with us. Part of how we can discern our particular calling, our role, our purpose in God's overarching plan is by remembering that God will take our stories, use our stories, our background, our life experiences, our strengths, our limitations, our yearnings, as the raw materials for forming us for a missional purpose. We can ask, what's Tyndale's particular identity and calling? What differentiates it from the other Christian institutions around? What's in our DNA? What is our charism, our role in God's mission? Remembering and recounting our story, our history, those founding convictions, will help us discern and ground us for the future. Third, the practice of remembering, though it looks backward, backwards, it functions to give us courage for the way forward. The story God calls ancient Israel to remember is the story, as it says in verse 18, of how God confirmed His covenant, which He swore to your ancestors, as it is today. God kept that covenant promises to Israel, despite their unfaithfulness, their complaining, their failure, their sin; and so with us, God's great and precious promises have been confirmed over and over again in our past, in our collective past, and that is the bedrock on which we stand. "Remembering is not retreat", says Kate Bowler, "It's preparation. It's pulling out the deep spiritual lessons of the past to give us strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow". I encourage you to engage in this spiritual practice of remembering. I also want to encourage you to journal, it'll mean something later. Remembering our history, remembering our collective and individual stories will help us say with absolute conviction: Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; tis grace that's brought us safe thus far. Say it with me, "and grace will lead us home".

Dr. Rebecca G. S. Idestrom
Thank you so much, Dr. Clark. It was a wonderful message. I have the privilege of giving the benediction for today, so let us pray and to receive this blessing. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. And may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up His countenance toward you, and give you His peace. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Amen.