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First Baptist Church847 Cleveland Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601-4495 (864) 233-2527 www.firstbaptistgreenville.com
A Community of Believers. Each Member A Minister.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.
© 2018 First Baptist Church, Greenville, SC (all rights reserved)
Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation
Bootie CothranMedia and Technology
Jim DantSenior Minister
Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship
Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music
Amy JoyeYouth Music
Shelton Ridge LoveOrganist
Jenna ManningChurch Operations
Dewanda MartinFirst Baptist Day School
Kyle MatthewsPastoral Care
Juli MorrowPreschool
Rosemary NewFirst Baptist Day School
Kendra PlatingPastoral Care
Becky RamseyChildren
Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and
Outreach
Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship
Kathy StewartFirst Baptist Day School
Laura StoutMissions
Looking AheadMay 26-27
AYMC and Church Offices Closed in observance of Memorial Day
May 26, 5:00pmLGBTQ and Friends Support
Group (Parlor)
June 2, 9:30amProtecting Our Children (A302)
June 2, 10:30amSeventh Sunday of Easter
BaptismMission Team CommissioningJim Dant, Proclaimer
June 2, 3:30-5:00pmPuerto Rico Participant Meeting
(AYMC)
June 9, 10:30amDay of Pentecost
Jim Dant, Proclaimer
June 9-23Host IHN Guests
June 9-12Missions Blast for Third-Fifth
Graders
June 10, 7:00pmSAVER Faith, Science and
Climate Solutions Forum (Fellowship Hall)
June 12, 9:00am-12:00noonYouth Mission Possible
June 12, 12:00noon-2:00pmYouth Unidiversity Day (AYMC)
June 12, 2:00-5:00pmPuerto Rico Participant Meeting
(AYMC)
June 12 11:00amRoadrunners to lunch at Wood
Fired Grill and to see “South Pacific” at Flat Rock Playhouse
June 16, 10:30amTrinity Sunday
Jim Dant, Proclaimer
June 17-20, 9:00am-12:00noonArt Experience for Preschoolers
(A312)
Jeremiah Hamilton and Max Richards are the acolytes today.
Paul Sewell is the soloist today.
Rev. Erin Spengeman Hutchison is the guest proclaimer today. Erin grew up at FBG and is the daughter of K.C. and Pam Spengeman and the sister of Megan Larkins. She’s worked with youth for nearly 20 years and loves to preach. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her super cool husband, Todd; two awesome kids, Desmond and Penelope; and their crazy dog.
Thomas Bruce is the deacon scheduled to provide the offertory prayer today. Thomas is the chair of both the AYMC Committee and the ushers.
Music selections include: Introduction from Suite Gothique by Léon Boëllmann; “O Be Joyful” by Charles Tompkins; “Assurance” arranged by John Ness Beck, © 1980, 1991 Beckenhorst Press, Inc.; “Total Praise” by Richard Smallwood, arranged by Patrick Barrett and Doreen Rao, © 1996 T. Autumn Music with arrangement by Doreen Rao, © 2010 T. Autumn Music; “Soliloquy” by David Conte, © 1997 E.C. Schirmer Music Co.; “The Peace of the Lord” by N. Grant Pfeifer, © 2003 Walton Music Corporation; and Festival Toccata by Percy Fletcher.
This Sanctuary is equipped with Hearing Loop. If you have a hearing aid equipped with a T-coil and switch to it, you will hear audio directly from our sound system.
May 26, 2019
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Ten Thirty O’clock
Financial Needs as of 5/25$1,090,383
Receipts as of 5/21$1,025,806
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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.
Words of Welcome
Prelude Léon Boëllmann Introduction (from Suite Gothique)
Prayer for Worship Kendra Plating
Christ Jesus, our peace, send forth your Holy Spirit to fill our hearts this day. Surround us with your peace, sustain us by your grace, and strengthen us in your word so that we may be true and faithful disciples. This we pray in your holy name. Amen.
Introit “O Be Joyful” Charles Tompkins
O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands!Serve the Lord with gladness
and come before his presence with a song! – Psalm 100:1
Opening Sentences
May God be gracious to us and bless us and make God’s face to shine upon us that God’s way be known upon earth, God’s saving power among all nations.
Let all the people praise God; let all the people sing praises!
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for God judges the peoples with equity and guides the nations upon earth.
Let the people praise God; let all the people sing praise! (Psalm 67)
*Processional Hymn 140 CORONATION “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name”
Welcome to Worshipers
Solo “Assurance” arr. John Ness Beck
Words of Faith
Scripture Lesson Acts 16:9-15 Mary Carol Anderson
page 900 of the Bible in the pew rack
Prayer of Confession
God of mercy, we want to be generous like your servant Lydia, but we often fear that we will not have enough. We want to be
Words of Commitment
*Invitation Hymn 139 DARWALL’S 148TH “Rejoice, the Lord Is King”
*Invitation to Offering Thomas Bruce
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. (Psalm 67:6)
Musical Offering “Soliloquy” David Conte
Introduction of New Members
Service and Fellowship of the Church
Words of Blessing
*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!
*Benediction
*Choral Benediction Response N. Grant Pfeifer “The Peace of the Lord”
May the peace of the Lord go with you, and may love be a shining light;
a light that guides and shines with radiance, through every shadowed night.
And let truth be a shield around you and joy fill your every day,
May the peace of the Lord be with you,for this we humbly pray. Amen.
Postlude Festival Toccata Percy Fletcher
Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.
Pastoral Prayer
*Children’s Hymn 279 PROMISED LAND “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand”
All children through 5th grade are invited to the front for the children’s sermon
during the singing of the last two stanzas of the hymn.
Children’s Sermon Becky Ramsey
Choral Worship “Total Praise” Richard Smallwood arr. Patrick Barrett and Doreen Rao
Lord, I will lift mine eyes to the hills,Knowing my help is coming from you.
Your peace, you give me in time of the storm.You are the source of my strength,
You are the strength of my life,I lift my hands in total praise to you. Amen.
Sermon People of the Cloth Erin Hutchison
transformed like your servant Paul, but we often worry that we are beyond your grace. We want to be loving like our savior Jesus, but we often wonder whether we are good enough for your call. God of mercy, forgive our sins. God of mercy, hear our prayers and fill our hearts with your peace.
Call to Prayer “Come and Fill Our Hearts” Jacques Berthier