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Sunday, August 4 9:00 a.m. Scrap Iron Broadcast (WLAQ 1410) 9:45 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Worship 2:00 p.m. Church Wide Pool Party at Northside Swim Center

Monday, August 5 1:00 p.m. Women’s Small Group - Community Room

Tuesday, August 6 12:00 p.m. Men’s Bible Study - Dining Room

Wednesday, August 7 5:30 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Dinner and Rehearsal

Friday, August 9 12:00 p.m. Finance Committee Meeting - Conference Room The flowers in the Narthex are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of John and Miriam Talley and O. M. and Kathryn Cates by Martha Cates.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given to the glory of God through the Jo Huffman Flower Fund.

TLC WORSHIP CARE Volunteers are needed to help staff our nursery during worship each week. Please contact Kristen if you are able to serve. This is a commitment to serve only four times during the year. If you won't be available on your scheduled Sunday, it's easy to make a switch. Please consider helping out!

SANCTUARY CHOIR REHEARSALS RESUME Join us on Wednesday, August 7 at 5:30 p.m. with a covered dish dinner in the Dining Room. We are always looking for new choir members and this would be a great time to join us. We will have a short rehearsal following dinner. Contact Keith Reaves with questions.

BIBLE STUDY PROMOTION & EXPLORATION DAY - AUGUST 11 Chef Greg will kick off the morning at 8:45 a.m. with breakfast in the Fellowship Hall. Check out the options of classes and discover where you might want to connect. A list of classes, locations, and teachers can be found on the church website. Guides will be around the building to help you find your way. If you have questions please contact Tamara Smathers.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACTIVITIES RESUME/DEACON ORDINATION On Wednesday, August 14 a service of worship ordaining our new deacons will follow dinner. Dinner at 5 p.m. and worship service at 6:15 p.m. Regular Wednesday activities (children’s choir and missions education, adult Bible studies, youth activities) resume August 21. New prices for adults and teens $7; Children (ages 3-12) $4 and family maximum $22.

WOMEN OF THE CHURCH Summer Salad Supper Thursday, August 15 at 6:00 p.m. Bring a salad to share and join other women from the church to hear the stories of our very own “Rosies”, Jane Tucker and Bettianne Ware Harris. These FBC members advanced the role of women serving in World War II.

HAVE YOU MET SHELBY? She is helping our church get connected! Listen out for more information in the weeks ahead as we introduce Shelby to the church family.

First Baptist Church, 100 East Fourth Avenue, Rome, GA 30161 Phone: 706.291.6850 Website: www.fbcrome.org

WELCOME CHURCH CALENDAR WELCOME

A Service of Christian Worship August 4, 2019

First Baptist Church

Rome, Georgia August 4, 2019 11:00 a.m.

To help maintain a spirit of worship, please silence phones. We welcome a larger congregation

through Comcast Channel 44 and through the livestream over the church website.

Chiming of the Hour

Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill “Prelude on HYFRYDOL”...Healey Willan

Invocation. . . . . . . . . . Tamara Tillman Smathers, Minister of Education/Administration

*Hymn of Praise No. 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BEECHER

“God, Our Father, We Adore Thee”

Call to Confession. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kristen Pope, Minister of Faith Development

Lord, You give us choices each and every day. At times this past week we have seen Your path, and turned away from it. We have seen our brother or sister in need and we did not turn to help.

Lord, have mercy.

We give You thanks that in spite of ourselves You show Your love to us in many ways each and every day.

Lord, Your love sustains and transforms us.

We give You thanks for this church, faithful in every season, singing Your praises, encouraging us to give our utmost to our Savior.

Lord, Your love sustains and transforms us.

We give you thanks for sending Your son Jesus Christ through whose death we receive forgiveness, through whose resurrection we have hope and a new life.

Lord, hear our prayers.

A Time for Silent Confession of Sin

Assurance of Forgiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Choir “New Born Again”...arr. John W. Work, Jr. and Frederick J. Work

I’ve found free grace and dying love, I’m newborn again, (I know my Lord has set me free, I’m newborn again,) been a long time a-talking ‘bout my trials here below.

Free grace, free grace, free grace, sinner, free grace, free grace, I’m newborn again. So glad, so glad I’m newborn again, been long time talking ‘bout my trials here below.

*Reading of Holy Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Colossians 3:1-11

(The text may be found on page 1167 in the Bibles in the pew racks.) Stephanie Lewis, reader

Reader: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God. *Gloria Patri (Hymn 704) Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Amen.

Hymn of Faith No. 641 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HIGHER GROUND

“Higher Ground” (Children ages kindergarten through second grade may depart for Children’s Worship.)

Children’s Worship Children in kindergarten through second grade are invited to Children’s Worship on the second floor of the Education Building. Parents may pick up their children there following worship.

Joining First Baptist We receive new members in several ways. Those who have never publicly acknowledged Christ as Lord join by public profession of faith. Baptism is scheduled for a later date. Members of other Baptist congregations may transfer their membership to our congregation. We handle the details of contacting your current church. Members of other Christian faith traditions are invited to join by “statement of faith.” Because other traditions vary in belief and practice, those joining by statement of faith are invited to speak with a minister before joining so that they might answer questions.

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DEACON BALLOT 2019-2020 The following individuals have been nominated by the Deacon Nominating Committee to serve as Deacons. Please vote for sixteen (16) persons. If you would like to write in another name or names, please strike one nominee for each person you write in.

□ 1. Danny Alexander (New, to be ordained) □ 2. Tripp Bagby (Returning) □ 3. David Brearley (New, to be ordained) □ 4. Jeff Brooks (New, to be ordained) □ 5. Glenda Carroll (New, to be ordained) □ 6. Cindy Childs (New, previously ordained) □ 7. Hank Dobson (Returning) □ 8. Ashley Garner (Returning) □ 9. Jan Hardeman (Returning) □ 10. Tara Inman (Returning) □ 11. Jordan Knight (New, to be ordained) □ 12. Miriam Peterson (Returning, one-year term) □ 13. Jim Poyner (New, to be Ordained) □ 14. Ernie Smith (Returning, two-year term) □ 15. Bill Weidemann (New, to be ordained) □ 16. Ryan Weldon (New, to be ordained) Write-Ins: ________________________________________ ______________________________________ The following have been nominated to serve as a Life Deacon. Please check if approved:

□ Larry Atwell □ Buford Harbin □ Mary Rolan

A SERVICE OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Morning Prayer (with The Lord’s Prayer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt DuVall, Pastor Our Father, who art in heaven hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. Musical Offering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sanctuary Choir

“Take the Name of Jesus with You”...arr. Jay Rouse Take the name of Jesus with you, child of sorrow and of woe,

It will joy and comfort give you; Take it then, where’er you go.

Precious name, oh, how sweet! Hope of earth and joy of Heaven;

Take the Name of Jesus ever, as a shield from every snare; If temptations round you gather, breathe that holy Name in prayer.

Oh, the precious Name of Jesus! How it thrills our souls with joy, When His loving arms receive us and His songs our tongues employ!

At the Name of Jesus bowing, falling prostrate at His feet, King of kings in heaven we’ll crown Him, when our journey is complete.

Sermon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rev. DuVall “Clothed with a New Self”

*Hymn of Response No. 507. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN

“Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”

Prayer of Stewardship. . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Uldrick, Minister of Students and Missions Offertory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Hill

“Jesus Loves Me”...arr. Jason D. Payne Meditation Text: The greatest barrier to the full expression of the Christian faith and way is the all-too-prevalent notion that we are victims of our human nature, thus not only prone to sin but unable not to sin. This is not the biblical message. We allow our minds to rationalize that we will always be slaves of sin. The role of spiritual disciplines, and the dynamic of abiding in Christ, is to put to death that untruth and make sin powerless in its control of our lives. Sin dwells in our choic-es—our wills—but our wills can be transformed. The revolution of Christ is a revolution of character. We can indeed become “new creatures in Christ Jesus.” —Maxie Dunnam

Deacon Election

The Work of the Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Uldrick

Welcome to New Members of the Church Family

*Pastoral Blessing and Passing of the Peace

*Commissioning Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“New Born Again”

*Postlude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill “Fanfare”...T. E. Smith