First Baptist Church847 Cleveland Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601-4495 (864) 233-2527 www.firstbaptistgreenville.com

A Community of Believers. Each Member A Minister.

May 22, 11:30amCelebration Lunch for High School

Graduates and Their Families (Fellowship Hall)

May 28-31AYMC Closed

May 29, 10:30amSecond Sunday after PentecostMatt Rollins, Proclaimer

May 30-31Church Offices Closed

June 2-8High School Senior Trip

June 5, 9:30amJoint Adult Sunday School Option

June 5, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

June 5-19Host GAIHN Guests

June 8, 7:00pmFamily Event: Jubilate Youth Choir

Concert (Sanctuary)

June 12, 9:30amJoint Adult Sunday School Option

June 12, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

June 12-15SEE: Hospitality as a Spiritual

Practice

June 12-17Youth Mission Trip

June 19, 9:30amJoint Adult Sunday School Option

June 19, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

June 20-23Children’s Missions Week for

Grades 1-2

June 20-24Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

General Assembly (Greensboro, NC)

June 25-July 1Missions Unidiversity

June 26, 9:30amJoint Adult Sunday School Option

June 26, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation

Bootie CothranMedia and Technology

Jim DantSenior Minister

Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship

Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music

Jenna ManningChurch Operations

Kyle MatthewsWorship Arts

Juli MorrowPreschool

Rosemary NewInfant-Toddler Program

Kendra PlatingPastoral Care

Becky RamseyChildren

Jeanie ReedYouth Music

Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and Outreach

Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and

Christian Fellowship

Kathy StewartKindergarten

Laura StoutMissions

Charles TompkinsOrganist

Baxter M. WynnPastoral Care and

Community Relations

Looking AheadThe acolytes today are Cooper Cruce and Colin Dorroh.

The soloist is Kyle Matthews.

The deacon assisting in worship today is Whitney Hodges. Whitney serves on the Missions and Affiliations Committee and is a teacher in the Four-year-old Sunday School Class. She and her husband, Matthew Burns, are members of the Koinonia Class and have three children: Beck, Ella and Nora.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given by Annette and Lucius Cline in loving memory of their parents, Dr. Lucius M. Jr. and Margaret Ellen Greyard Cline and Ralph Lee and Nancy Harrison Owen.

Portions of today’s liturgy adapted from Call to Worship: Lectionary Aids for 2015-2016, Year C, Volume 49.1, © 2015 Office of Theology and Worship Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); and Revised Common Lectionary Prayers, © 2002 Consultation on Common Texts (CCT).

Musical selections today include: “O Be Joyful” by Charles Tompkins; “Set Thy Love” by Fred Bock, © 1967, renewed 1995 Fred Bock Music Company; “In the Time We Have” by Kyle Matthews, creation 5/11/16, Catalytic Songs, Inc.; and “An Old English Prayer” by James Gossler, © 1985 James M. Gossler.

May 22, 2016

Trinity Sunday

Ten Thirty O’clock

Financial Needs as of 5/21$961,540

Receipts as of 5/19$786,107

Sunday morning worship service broadcasts:

WLFJ-AM 660 and FM 92.9

www.firstbaptistgreenville.com/watchlisten-live/

Links to view or listen to previous services are also available.

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*Please stand as you are able. Please silence all electronic devices.Please contact an usher for a hearing aid receiver or magnifying glass.

*Invitation Hymn 380 ASH GROVE “Let All Things Now Living”

Invitation to Offering Whitney Hodges

“...And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20b)

Musical Offering Con moto Camille Saint-Saëns (Fantasie in E-flat)

Introduction of New Members

Service and Fellowship of the Church

*Doxology (Hymn 32) LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;Praise God, all creatures here below;

Alleluia! Alleluia!Praise God above, ye heav’nly host;

Creator, Christ and Holy Ghost.Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Words of Blessing

*Benediction

*Choral Benediction Response James M. Gossler “An Old English Prayer”

*Postlude Allegro maestoso Camille Saint-Saëns (Fantasie in E-flat)

Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.

Words of Welcome

Call to Worship “O Be Joyful” Charles Tompkins

Opening Sentences Mary Carol Anderson

The wisdom of God calls to us,

From the heights, along the paths, and at the crossroads.

Come into God’s presence to worship, sing and pray.

From our scattered places, we come to worship the Triune God.

*Processional Hymn 136 NICAEA “Holy, Holy, Holy!”

Prayer for Worship

Holy, holy, holy Lord – we praise the majesty and mystery of your threefold name. Startle us with the grace, love and communion of your unity in diversity, that we may live to the praise of your majestic name. Amen.

Welcome

Words of Faith

Scripture Lesson 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Kendra Plating

page 944 of the Bible in the pew rack

Call to Prayer “To You” John Tirro

Pastoral Prayer

*Children’s Hymn 152 ST. ANNE “Creator God, Creating Still”

All children first through fifth grades are invited to come to the front during

the singing of the last two stanzas of this hymn.

Children’s Sermon Jim Dant

Choral Worship “Set Thy Love” Fred Bock

Sermon Much Ado about Nothing

Words of Commitment

Solo “In the Time We Have” Kyle Matthews

College

Graduate School

Chase Achille

Mary Martin Armstrong

Ryan Byrne

Annie Deaton

Millie Drake

Walker Gibbs

Ashley Girvin

Kayley Mills

Naomi Mobley

Stephen Morris

Meaghan Raines

Charlie Saad

Elizabeth Watkins

Bennett Wright

John Dam

Elizabeth Davis

Mary Stone

Forest Stulting

Taylan Stulting

Jacob Wylie

Jordan Coates

Rebecca Clanton McPhail

Lord, in the time we have, help us do justice and work to right what’s wrong So we can live to see some slave go free, in the time we have

Lord, in the time we have, let us love mercy and cry the tears of joyTo see some friendless soul be welcomed home, in the time we have

You give us every breath we’re breathing, you sent us Christ to give life meaningOur offering to you is what we do with the time we have, in the time we have

Lord, in the time we have, let us walk humbly, so you can love through usThat your will might be done your kingdom come, in the time we have

Graduate Recognition

High School