Opening Service - Monday, August 18, 2025

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Order of Service

  • Prelude
  • Hymn 2 - Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord View
    vv. 1 - 3
  • Versicles & Gloria Patri
  • Anthem: O God, Beyond All Praising
    Choir: vv. 1, 2; Congregation: v. 3
  • Reading: Colossians 2:6-10 View
    As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
  • Hymn 24 - Lord, Open Thou My Heart To Hear View
    vv. 1 - 3; Choir sings between verses
  • President's Address
    Dr. Gene Pfeifer, President of Bethany
  • Installation of New Faculty and Staff
  • Presentation of Scholarships
  • Hymn 35 - All Glory Be To God On High View
    v. 1
  • Kyrie, Lord’s Prayer
  • Collect
  • Announcement
    Opening of the Academic Year
  • The Benedicamus and Benediction (p. 127)
  • Hymn 82 - With the Lord Begin Thy Task View
    vv. 1 - 5
  • Postlude
This Special Service was held in Trinity Chapel at Bethany Lutheran College on Monday, August 18, 2025, at 10 a.m. Page and hymn numbers are from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. Service ©2025 Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minn.