Alma Mater* …………………….………………………………………………………...……………… Audience Dr. Marcus J. Rhodes, Associate Professor of Music Benediction*………………………………………………………………………...…. Rev. Donald E. Brewington . University Chaplain For Our New Rams: Lord, we pray for courage. Bless them with a willingness to try new things, explore new subjects, and expand their worlds. Give them the freedom to fail and then build up in them the resilience to try again. For Our Students’ Families and Friends: Lord, we ask that you turn the hearts of family and friends of our students away from worry and toward gratitude, away from regret and toward contentment, away from holding on and toward letting go. Give them the knowledge and understanding that their student is in the palm of your hand. We are grateful for how you have used parents and stepparents, relatives, and friends to shape these students. We pray that you give them wisdom as they continue to invest in their students’ lives. For Our Returning Rams: Lord, we pray that you empower them to be people of integrity: may the words they sing in worship be lived out in the classroom, on the playing field, in rehearsal rooms, and in the residence halls. May the lives that they live and the choices they make glorify You most Holy God. As they choose areas of focus for their studies, guide them to areas in which they can find you already at work. For Our Faculty and Staff: Lord, we pray for joy as they enter a new academic year. May those who teach be empowered by your Holy Spirit to teach with boldness and compassion, with warmth and fairness, with justice and mercy. May those on our staff be satisfied with the work they have done this summer to prepare the campus for this fall. We pray that all employees of Huston-Tillotson University will be blessed with a longing to serve those around them wisely and well, with patience toward those with whom they work, and with joy that pervades their lives at work and at home. For all of us: May the Lord bless us and keep us. May he make his face to shine upon us and be gracious to us. May the Lord let the light of his countenance shine upon us and give us peace. Amen!
Recessional *
Organ Postlude……………………………………… Hornpipe…………………………………….… G.F. Handel Dr. Stephen P. Burnaman .
* Please stand
2024 President’s Opening Fall Convocation
Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter maker