november 4, 2018 all saints sunday - first baptist church
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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)
Looking Ahead
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
Will RaybonAssociate Youth
Dylan RiggPastoral Resident
Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and
Outreach
Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship
Kathy StewartFirst Baptist Day School
Laura StoutMissions
Mittie TaylorAYMC Director
November 4, 11:30amVocare Rehearsal (Choir Room)
November 4, 5:00pmStephen Ministry Churchwide
Event: Helping a Grieving Friend (Carpenter Chapel)
November 7, 4:30-7:00pmYouth Ministry to Thomas McAfee
Funeral Home
November 7Wednesdays at FirstMidWeek Fellowship: Fruits of the
Spirit – Gentleness
November 11, 9:25amFirst Baptist 101 (Clemons
Conference Room)
November 11, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer
November 11, 11:30amLunch for Visitors (Fellowship Hall)
November 11, 11:30am-2:00pmChildren’s Ministry Event:
Discipleship Class #1
November 11, 11:30amPuerto Rico High School Mission
Trip Interest and Commitment Meeting (AYMC)
November 11, 3:00-4:30pmYouth Ministry Event: Scholarships
and Financial Aid Workshop (AYMC)
November 11, 4:00pmVocare Rehearsal (Choir Room)
November 11, 5:00-7:00pmSunday Night Live for Youth
(AYMC)
November 12, 11:15amRoadrunners Depart for Lunch at
the Tipsy Taco
November 13, 8:45am-3:00pmHoly Rollers to Wholesale Grocery
in Pelzer and Lunch at Kenny’s Homecooking
November 14Wednesdays at FirstMidWeek Fellowship: Fruits of the
Spirit – Self-Control
November 16, 4:00-6:00pmChildren’s Ministry Event: Spare
Time
Bella Davis and Leira Johnson are the acolytes today.
Josh Harrington is the guest organist today.
Baxter Wynn is serving as our proclaimer today. After retiring as First Baptist Greenville’s Pastoral Care Minister, Baxter walked the Camino de Santiago. Today he shares his journey with us. Baxter and his wife, Paula, sing in the Sanctuary Choir and have two married sons and two grandchildren.
Bergsvein Toverud, Herring Choral Intern, is conducting the Sanctuary Choir anthem today. Bergsvein is a senior at Furman University.
Amy Joye, soprano, is singing the solo in the Sanctuary Choir anthem today.
Bootie Cothran and Kyle Matthews are leading the responsive hymn and providing music during communion today.
John Smith is the deacon providing the offertory prayer today. John teaches Second Grade Sunday School. He and his wife, Terri, have three children: Allan, Bryan and Draper.
Communion Committee members scheduled to prepare today are John and Martha Burwell. The gluten-free bread available in the Come unto Me Window is prepared by Anne and Tedd Garner.
The cross mounted at the entrance to the Columbarium is from the prayer garden of Jim Neal. It, along with the flowers in the church today, are given by his family in loving memory of his life.
The tapestry hanging behind the pulpit was designed and created by textile artist Ellen Kochansky from pieces of fabric given by members of the congregation during our stewardship emphasis for 1996, “Weaving Our Lives Together.”
Music selections today include: “The Road Home” by Stephen Paulus, © 2005 Stephen Paulus; “In Remembrance” from Celebrate Life by Ragan Courtney and Buryl Red, © 1972 Broadman Press; “The Way Home” by Kate Campbell and Walt Aldridge, © 2001 Large River Music (BMI)/April Music/Waltz Time Music (ASCAP). For more information on the music, visit the Organist’s Blog at www.firstbaptistgreenville.com/the-organists-blog
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.
November 4, 2018
All Saints Sunday
Ten Thirty O’clock
Financial Needs as of 11/3$2,200,000
Receipts as of 10/31$1,967,318
Lula Whilden Offering $48,058
*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
Welcome to Worshipers Jim Dant
Call to Worship
Praise the Lord, all you faithful people!
With all the saints, we sing God’s praise.
By the grace of Christ, we are God’s own.
With all the blessed ones, let us sing.
*Processional Hymn 375 SINE NOMINE “For All the Saints”
Words of Remembrance
Scripture Lesson Psalm 121 Kendra Plating
page 498 of the Bible in the pew rack
Litany of Remembrance
We gather this day to remember our family and friends who have died in this past year.
We give you thanks, O God, for those whom we have loved. We give you thanks for the laughter and the love, the insight and the strength that they gave to us.
We thank you, O Lord, for bringing into being these unique people and for bringing them into our lives.
And now their death has left an empty place within us.
So we pray for ourselves, for the days when that empty place hurts like a raw wound and for the days when it returns as a gentle ache in the midst of the everyday living of our lives.
We hold onto the memory of those who have died, but we also pray for the grace to let go of any hurts unforgiven, any conflict unresolved and words from the heart left unsaid.
O Lord, you have promised your presence through the valley of the shadow of death.
Words of Commitment
*Invitation Hymn 185 HYFRYDOL “I Will Sing the Wondrous Story”
*Invitation to Offering John Smith
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. (Romans 14:8)
Musical Offering
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
*Congregational Benediction Response TOMER “God Be with You”
God be with you til we meet again!By his counsels guide, uphold you,With his sheep securely fold you,
God be with you til we meet again!
Postlude
Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.
We pray in confident trust that those who have passed through that valley are now in your gentle arms. And for we who remain on this side of the valley, we pray for strength in our grieving and joy in our remembering.
For these, our family and friends, we give you thanks: Bob Tucker, Kassandra DeFranco, Mike Horne, Lynn Thomasson, Jack Pressley, Olivia Morrow, Stanley Sheftall Sr., Richard Pace, Ruth Poole, Tom Benston Jr., Vara Graham, Dixie McAdams, Martha Hall, Robert Rogers, John Cunningham, George Irwin, Roy Heath, Hayden Hays, Bob MacRae, Coy Carson, Cele Irwin, Michael Stogner, Bill Lewis, Al Rampey, and Jacob Hamilton. (Time for voicing additional names)
Pastoral Prayer
Responsive Hymn 283 HANSON PLACE “Shall We Gather at the River”
Stanza 1: Solo Stanzas 2 and 4: Congregation
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.
Words of Faith
Children’s Sermon Becky Ramsey
Sermon What Happens on the Camino... Baxter Wynn
Walking is a way of connecting, of feeling our feet on the ground, a very ordinary and yet surprisingly spiritual thing. – Diana Butler Bass,
Grounded: Finding God in the World – A Spiritual Revolution
Choral Worship “The Road Home” Stephen Paulus
Words of Communion
Invitation to the Table
The Lord’s Supper
“In Remembrance” Ragan Courtney/Buryl Redd
“The Way Home” Kate Campbell/Walt Aldridge