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

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

Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and

Outreach

Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship

Kathy StewartFirst Baptist Day School

Laura StoutMissions

Mittie TaylorAYMC Director

November 3, 4:00pmVocare Rehearsal (Choir Room)

November 6, 10:30amRoadrunners to Lunch at Hungry

Drover

November 6Wednesdays at First Activities

November 9-10Children’s Ministry Event:

Discipleship Retreat for 4th-5th Grade Children

November 10, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

November 10, 11:30amLunch for Visitors (Fellowship Hall)

November 10-17Host IHN Guests

November 10, 4:00pmVocare Rehearsal (Choir Room)

November 10, 5:00-7:00pmSunday Night Live for Youth: Pack

College Care Packages

November 11First Baptist Day School Book Fair

(Parlor)

November 12, 8:45am-3:00pmHoly Rollers to Wholesale Grocery

in Pelzer and Lunch at Kenny’s Homecooking

November 13Wednesdays at First Activities

November 17, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

November 17, 11:30amChurch Conference and Youth

Fundraiser Baked Potato Bar

November 17, 12:30pmVocare Rehearsal (Choir Room)

November 17, 2:30-4:30pmChildren’s Ministry Event:

Swimming at the Kroc Center

November 20Wednesdays at First Activities

*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 “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” arr. Carolyn Hamlin

Our Service of Worship has ended.Our Worship through Service begins.

Perry Harling and Sarah Moniot are the acolytes serving today.

Kevin Treu is ringing the handbell toll today.

Amy Joye is the soprano soloist during the service of communion.

Carol Ann and Jim Anderson are the Communion Committee members scheduled to prepare today.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given in loving memory of James Austin Neal on All Saints Sunday by his family: Leonette Neal; Heather, Chris, Ben, and Addie Stone.

Music selections today include: “The Lord Is My Shepherd” by Robert Lau, © 2017 Lorenz; “Set Me as a Seal” by René Clausen, © 1989 Fostco Music Press; “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal” arranged by Alice Parker, © 1967; “When We All Get to Heaven” arranged by Shelton Ridge Love, © 2018 Love Notes, Inc.; and “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” arranged by Carolyn Hamlin, © 2004 Van Ness Press, Inc. For more information on the music, visit The Organist’s Blog at https://firstbaptistgreenville.com/the-organists-blog/

November 3, 2019

All Saints Sunday

Ten Thirty O’clockTour of the Churchfollowing worship

Meet at the Come Unto Me Window

Financial Needs as of 11/2$2,284,612

Receipts as of 10/21$1,949,330

Lula Whilden World Missions Offering 2019 Goal

$125,000Receipts as of 10/21

$28,375

*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 “The Lord Is My Shepherd” Robert Lau

Prayer for Worship Mary Carol Anderson

We offer ourselves to you now, O Lord – our bodies to do your work and our voices to sing your praise – grateful that when this earthly life is ended, you will welcome us home where we will live in eternal joy with you and all the saints. Amen.

Welcome of Worshipers

Opening Sentences

The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

*Processional Hymn 375 SINE NOMINE “For All the Saints”

Words of Remembrance

Litany of Remembrance Kyle Matthews

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

Choral Worship “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” Arr. Alice Parker

Hark, I hear the harps eternal Ringing on the farther shore,As I near those swollen waters, With their deep and solemn roar.Hallelujah, praise the Lamb. Hallelujah, Glory to the great I AM.

And my soul though stained with sorrow, Fading as the light of day,Praises swiftly o’er those waters To the city far away.

Hallelujah, praise the Lamb. Hallelujah, Glory to the great I AM.Souls have crossed before me, saintly, To that land of perfect rest;

And I hear them singing faintly In the mansions of the blest.Hallelujah, praise the Lamb. Hallelujah, Glory to the great I AM.

Sermon Living in the Bright Shadow of Death Kendra Plating

Words of Communion

Invitation to the Table

The Lord’s Supper

Words of Commitment

*Invitation Hymn 185 HYFRYDOL “I Will Sing the Wondrous Story”

*Invitation to Offering

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. (1 Timothy 6:12)

Musical Offering arr. Shelton Ridge Love “When We All Get to Heaven”

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!

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.

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: Charles Schwiers, Nilaouise Bonner, Polly Gaskin, Virginia Lassiter, Max Kennedy, Tom Buford, Caroline Plyler, Harvey Sanders, Sarah Barton, Abbie Jean Poole, Ned Clay, Mary Harrill, Bill Jones, Paul Armitage, Hazel Christian, Betsy Bob Miles, Buck Chiles, Betty Alverson, Jennie Taylor, Neal Williams, Pat Ballew, Earline Shabkie, Trinity Lawter, John Crabtree, Boyd Gaskin, Louise Pfrangle, Joylyn Lynch, Dee Bingham, Ann Stephens and Jim Whitten. (Time for voicing additional names)

Song of Blessing “Set Me as a Seal” René Clausen

Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm, For love is strong as death.

Many waters cannot quench love; Neither can the floods drown it.Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm,

For love is strong as death. – Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Words of Faith

Scripture Lesson Matthew 4:1-11

page 785 of the Bible in the pew rack

Pastoral Prayer

*Children’s Hymn 282 BRADBURY “Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us”

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