 A warm welcome to everyone here, especially our graduates and their families, friends, welcome to faculty, staff, members, board directors who are here, to the Reverend Dr. Megan Larissa Good, who is one of our AMBS board directors, a special welcome. Welcome to the 73rd Annual Commencement of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, a bi-national seminary of Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA. Twenty persons are completing their programs of study in 2019. We gather to celebrate their commitment as followers of Jesus Christ to grow in body, mind, and spirit as leaders for God's reconciling mission in the world. We gather as a community of witnesses to give thanks for the successful completion of the race these graduates have run, upheld by the love of their family and friends, the guidance of the faculty and staff of AMBS, and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit. If you are able, please stand for the call to worship and invocation. The Creator God made this bright day. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Whether we come from far or nearby with joy or weariness, anticipation or apprehension, may we join in body, mind, and spirit to worship. Worship the One who breaks the darkness with a liberating light. Praise the One who preached the gospel, calming storms, and healing dread diseases. Give thanks for the One present among us this day with illuminating power and joy. Let us pray. O merciful, loving Holy God, free our spirits to worship you in spirit and truth. May all that weighs us down, the regrets, the worries, the turmoil, and pain of our world be infused with the joy of your resurrected presence among us, Lord Jesus Christ. We rejoice that you have looked with favor on us, your lowly servants calling us to be leaders in your reconciling mission in the world. We delight to celebrate this milestone in our journeys of faith together as one body. We sing for joy and gladness, giving thanks for what you, our Lord, has done. Amen. Please remain standing and turn and sing the story, the purple book to number one. Praise the One who breaks the darkness. We will be reading the scripture passage chosen by our commencement speaker, Megan Good, 2 Corinthians 2, 14-17. But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing God. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are also perishing. To the one a fragrance from death to death and to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient to such things? For we are not peddlers of God's word like so many, but in Christ we speak as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God and standing in God's presence. Now reading in Wolof, the language of the Wolof people in Senegal, where I served for part of my time in studies. Jolie Founek, we are the people of the Thessalonians. In the last days, all of us, in the presence of Christ, we will be speaking as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God and standing in God's presence. To the one a fragrance from death to death and to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient to such things? For we are not peddlers of God, as persons sent from God and standing in God's presence. Who is sufficient to such things? For we are not peddlers of God, as persons sent from God and standing in God's presence. Now reading in Korean, the Korean Bible version is named the New Translation. We are the ones sent from God and standing in God's presence. We are the ones sent from God and standing in God's presence. And in the presence of Christ, we are God, who created us through the scent of knowledge we know of Christ, which we are sure of. We are the ones sent from God and standing in God's presence. We are not the businessmen who sell and eat the words of God like those many people who have been sent by God. We are the people who work with a sincere heart like those who have been sent by God. We are the people who work with a sincere heart like those who have been sent by God. We speak in Christ in front of what God sees.