 A warm welcome to everyone here, especially our graduates and to your family and friends. A welcome to faculty and staff and to our speaker, Dr. Alan Kreider. It's good to be here. This is the 70th annual commencement of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, a binational seminary of Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA. 18 persons are completing their programs of study this year, 2016. We gather to celebrate their commitment to grow in body, mind and spirit as leaders of God's reconciling mission in the world. We gather as a community of witnesses to acknowledge with gratitude the successful completion of the race these graduates have run, upheld by the love of their family, their friends, the guidance of the faculty and staff, and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit. If you are able, please stand for the call to worship and invocation. May the Lord put a new song in our mouths, a song of praise to our God. With patience, we wait on the Lord. With the unfolding of our lives, we wait on the Lord. And on this day of celebration, we wait on the Lord. The wondrous deeds of the Lord are more than we can count. Over and over, the Lord has drawn us up from the desolate pit out of the myriad bog and set our feet upon a rock making our steps secure. We are here to tell the glad news of the Lord's deliverance and faithfulness. May all of those who wait on the Lord say continually, great is the Lord. Join in prayer. Holy one, thank you that you are never far away, that with patience and a gentle, mothering hand you have brought us to this moment. We give thanks for the race that is ours to run, for the joy that is set before us because of Jesus, the pioneer of our faith, and for the power of the Holy Spirit who sustains us. May you delight us, O Lord, with your presence now. O God of our salvation. Amen. Please remain standing and turn to the blue hymnal worship book, number 59. Sing praise to God who reigns above. Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. El pere menon hamatia. Di jubo menos trokon tan pro kemenon. Amen. Adon, verse two. I'm going to show you a little bit of what I'm going to show you in a little bit of this video. To the all, ke ka'a feken. Can we get an amen? Amen. And a reading from Matthew 5, 43 through 48. You have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of your father in heaven. For he makes his son rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect. The word of the Lord.