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:

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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