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Sunday, August 11 8:45 p.m. Bible Study Kickoff Breakfast - Fellowship Hall 9:00 a.m. Scrap Iron Broadcast (WLAQ 1410) 9:45 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Worship

Monday, August 12 1:00 p.m. Women’s Small Group - Community Room Deacons’ Meeting 5:30 p.m. Executive Meeting - Conference Room 6:00 p.m. General Meeting - Dining Room

Tuesday, August 13 12:00 p.m. Men’s Bible Study - Dining Room

Wednesday, August 14 5:00 p.m. First Dinner Resumes - Fellowship Hall 6:15 p.m. Deacon Ordination Service - Sanctuary 7:00 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal - Choir Suite

Thursday, August 15 6:00 p.m. Women of the Church Salad Supper - Fellowship Hall

The flowers in the Narthex are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Sam and Ruth Talley by Jim, Jennifer, Jack and Sam Talley.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Dr. Stanley Self and Bill Self by Patricia Self and Family.

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!

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. Reservations for childcare are needed by Monday, August 12.

HAVE YOU MET SHELBY? She is helping our church get connected! First, on your smart phone, search an download the “ShelbyNEXT Membership” app. Next, contact Melinda Duke in the church office, mduke@fbcrome.org, and she will give you permission to join. This simple tool allows us to connect easily with our FBC Rome 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 11, 2019

First Baptist Church

Rome, Georgia August 11, 2019 11:00 p.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/Beverly Harris “O God Our Help In Ages Past”...arr. Mark Hayes/Marvin Gaspard

Welcome to Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keith A. Reaves

*Call to Worship No. 280. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SPEAK, O LORD

“Speak, O Lord”

Presentation of Bibles to New First Graders Jane Barron, Sawyer Booker, Court Booker, Walker Brearley, Sawyer Dunagan, Carter Gray, West Hortman, Blythe Marion, Will Richie, Katy Smith, Callie Terry, Sim Weldon, Ryan Taylor

Prayer of Blessing for the New School Year Brant Amerman, Asst. Principal, Elm Street Elementary; Caroline Knight, St. Mary’s School; Lee Donahue, Teacher, Pepperell High School; Sam Twente, Rome Middle School; Anne Scott Smith, Darlington School; Maggie Inman, Oglethorpe University

Brant: As we begin this new school year, we give thanks that God has given us the ability to learn many things in many ways.

We learn in school, but we also learn in church, in our family, in our city, and in the world. Learning is a gift from God.

Caroline: The Bible tells us that Jesus learned and studied, just as we do.

And Jesus grew in wisdom.

Lee: We ask God's blessing on this new school year, that it may be a time when we appreciate and fully use God's gifts of teaching and learning.

We ask God to bless our schools and teachers.

Sam: We ask God to bless our classmates and friends.

We ask God to bless our administrators, principals, counselors, and librarians.

Anne Scott: We ask God to bless those who prepare our lunches, those who drive us to school, and those who keep our schools clean and safe.

We give thanks to God for books and computers and all the things that help us learn.

Maggie: Loving God, sometimes school is great, and sometimes it is hard, but we know that whether we are excited or scared, You are with us.

Help us to remember to show our thanks for Your gifts of teaching and learning by doing our best every day. Amen.

Hymn of Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LANCASHIRE

We thank You, God, for teachers Who help us learn Your Way, Who show by their example How we can serve and pray, Who find great joy in worship, Who listen with concern; For in their loving witness, They help us want to learn.

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.

Recording All services are recorded and may be viewed on our website. If you would like a video or audio copy of today’s service, please call the office.

Safety Safe zones for severe weather are in preschool hallways for children and the Fellowship Hall for the congregation. If there is a need to evacuate the building, parents should pick up children at the bus parking lot on the far side of First Presbyterian Church.

Prayer Concerns (Please place in offering plate or hand to an usher or minister.) ____________________________________ ____________________________________

Matt DuVall, Pastor

Keith A. Reaves Senior Associate/Minister of Worship

Tamara Tillman Smathers Minister of Education/Administration

John H. Uldrick Minister to Students and Missions

Kristen Pope, Minister of Faith Development

Gwen Stephens, Ministry Assistant

Beverly Harris, Pianist Joan Hill, Organist

A SERVICE OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP FOR YOUR INFORMATION

We thank You, God, for children And older people, too, Who value times of learning And want to grow in you, Who seek Your precious kingdom And wisdom from above; For wise ones of all ages Still seek to learn Your love.

We thank You, God, for families Of every kind and size, Who keep the vows they spoke when Their children were baptized, Who pray and read the Bible, Who love and serve the poor; They teach, by what they value, The way of Christ our Lord.

We thank You, God, for churches That welcome one and all, That nurture every person In answer to Christ's call. So fill us with Your Spirit, And give us life anew, That we may help each other Live faithfully in You.

© 1999 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved. Copied from Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette (Geneva Press, 2000).

*Reading of Holy Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Psalm 33:12-22

(The text may be found on page 550 in the Bibles in the pew racks.) John Uldrick, reader

Reader: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God. *Gloria Patri (Hymn 704) Hymn of Hope No. 542 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MILLIGAN

“We Find Our Peace” (Children ages kindergarten through second grade may depart for Children’s Worship.)

Morning Prayer (with The Lord’s Prayer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristen Pope Musical Offering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sanctuary Choir

“O God Our Help in Ages Past”...arr. Alice Jordan (The text to this anthem may be found in Hymn 566.)

Sermon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rev. DuVall “Hoping in God’s Love”

*Hymn of Response No. 425. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FOUNDATION

“How Firm a Foundation”

Prayer of Stewardship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tamara Tillman Smathers Offertory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beverly Harris

“Blessed Assurance”...arr. Lavawan Riley Meditation Text: Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to – because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. —Philip Yancey

The Work of the Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Smathers

Welcome to New Members of the Church Family

*Pastoral Blessing and Passing of the Peace

*Commissioning Hymn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“O God, Our Help in Ages Past” O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, Be Thou our guard while life shall last and our eternal home! *Postlude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill

“O What Their Joy”...David Cherwien