First Baptist Church847 Cleveland Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601-4495 (864) 233-2527 www.firstbaptistgreenville.com

A Community of Believers. Each Member A Minister.

Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation

Bootie CothranMedia and Technology

Jim DantSenior Minister

Vivian HamiltonMusic and Worship

Priscilla HarrisChildren’s Music

Amy JoyeYouth Music

Jenna ManningChurch Operations

Kyle MatthewsWorship Arts

Juli MorrowPreschool

Rosemary NewInfant-Toddler Program

Kendra PlatingPastoral Care

Becky RamseyChildren

Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and

Outreach

Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship

Kathy StewartKindergarten

Laura StoutMissions

Looking Ahead

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.

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August 13, 9:15amTeacher Appreciation Breakfast

(Fellowship Hall)

August 13, 10:30amService of CommunionFamily DedicationJim Dant, ProclaimerKyle Matthews, SoloistCatherine Crowe, Violinist

August 13, 3:00-6:00pmCrossover for Rising 6th-7th Grade

Youth

August 20, 9:00-10:15amYouth Promotion Sunday

Breakfast

August 20, 10:30amPromotion SundayJim Dant, Proclaimer

August 20, 11:30amLunch for Visitors (Fellowship Hall)

August 20, 5:00-7:00pmParent/Youth Night (Fellowship

Hall)

August 23, 7:00pmSanctuary Choir Summer Soirée

August 26, 9:00am-2:00pmLGBTQ and Friends Picnic

(Herdklotz Park)

August 27, 10:30amBack to School BlessingsFirst Baptist Day School

(previously FBCK and ITP) 65th Anniversary

Jim Dant, Proclaimer

August 31-September 4AYMC Closed

September 2-4Youth Family Fall Retreat

(Rockmont)

September 3, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

September 4Church Offices Closed –

Labor Day

September 6Wednesdays at First Activities

Resume

September 8, 6:00pmSenior Adult Banquet

(Fellowship Hall)

September 10, 10:30amService of CommunionSenior Adult SundayJim Dant, Proclaimer

Elle LaForge and Briley Gray are the acolytes today.

First Baptist Greenville welcomes the Furman Singers Alumni Choir today to lead in worship. The Furman Singers has enjoyed a very close relationship with First Baptist since 1946 when DuPre Rhame, then also director of music at First Baptist, founded the Furman Singers. The first (of what has become a biennial event) “Furman Singers Reunion” was in 1979, with DuPre Rhame and Bingham Vick Jr. conducting. That first gathering culminated with the Singers leading in worship at First Baptist Greenville. This year marks the twentieth Furman Singers reunion. Dr. Hugh Floyd, current conductor of Furman Singers and Vick Professor of Music at Furman University, and Dr. Bingham Vick Jr., emeritus conductor, will be leading the Singers in worship.

Tim Effler, Class of ’86, is the organist today, and Nancy Lyons Smith, Class of ’71, is the pianist.

Tom Kirby is the deacon assisting in worship today. Tom and his wife, Nancy, are teachers in the Covenant Sunday School Class. They have two adult children and two grandchildren.

The flowers in the Sanctuary today are given by the Furman Singers Alumni Choir in memory of DuPre and Eleanor Rhame. DuPre was music minister at First Baptist Church, 1936-1970, and founder and conductor of the Furman University Singers, 1946-1970. “Music was his heaven on earth.”

August 6, 2017

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Ten Thirty O’clock

Financial Needs as of 8/5$1,490,387

Receipts as of 7/31$1,350,308

*Please stand as you are able. Please silence all electronic devices.Please contact an usher for a hearing aid receiver or magnifying glass.

Enter with Joy

Prelude “Morning Has Broken” arr. Gilbert M. Martin

“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” arr. Nancy Lyons Smith, ’71

“Like a River Glorious” arr. Nancy Lyons Smith, ’71

“Holy Manna” arr. Joseph M. Martin, ’80

Prayer for Worship Vivian Hamilton

God beyond all seeing and knowing, we meet you in the night of change and crisis, and wrestle with you in the darkness of doubt. Give us the will and spirit to live faithfully and love as we are loved. Amen.

Choral Call to Worship Ludwig van Beethoven “Hallelujah” (from Christ on the Mount of Olives)

Opening Sentences

Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good.

The steadfast love of the Lord endures forever.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

Let all the people praise the Lord. Hallelujah!

*Hymn 50 “When in Our Music God Is Glorified” ENGELBERG

Welcome of Worshipers Jim Dant

Worship with Gladness

Gospel Lesson Matthew 14:13-21

Page 796 of the Bible in the pew rack

Meditation Halt the Chaos

Choral Worship

“The Last Words of David” Randall Thompson

“Love Never Faileth” Daniel Gawthrop

Commissioned for Furman Singers by Bing and Judy Vick

in celebration of their 50th Anniversary, July 29, 2017

If I speak with the tongues of men or angels but have not love, I am but sounding brass and clanging cymbals.

If I have the gift of prophecy, can fathom all mysteries, all knowledge, if I have faith that can move mountains

but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I have to the poor, if I give my body to hardship but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, it boasts not, it is not proud. Love delights not in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

It is not easily provoked and keeps no record of wrongs.

And in this day, all things are in commotion. We see through a glass darkly.

Men’s hearts shall fail and tongues shall be stilled, and knowledge shall pass away.

But these three things remain: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.

Therefore, let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. For love protects always, love trusts always,

love hopes always and endures all things. Love never faileth.

– 1 Corinthians 13, Jane Griner

“O Clap Your Hands” Ralph Vaughan Williams

Psalter Lesson Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21 Kyle Matthews

Page 506 of the Bible in the pew rack

*Hymn 22 “My Singing Is a Prayer” VERMONT

Pastoral Prayer

Choral Worship

“The Road Home” Stephen Paulus

“The Promised Land” arr. Ronald Staheli

“O Lux Beatissima” Howard Helvey

Translation: O Light most blessed, fill the inmost heart of all thy faithful. Without your grace, there is nothing in us, nothing that is not harmful.

– attributed to Stephan Langton

Commit with Thankfulness

*Hymn 244 HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING “How Can I Keep from Singing?”

*Invitation to Offering Tom Kirby

Muzzler of sea storm and wave crash, of mobs in noisy riot – Far and wide they’ll come to a stop, they’ll stare in awe, in wonder. Dawn and dusk take turns calling, “Come and worship.” (Psalm 65:7-8, The Message)

Musical Offering “Music Down in My Soul” arr. Moses Hogan

Service and Fellowship of the Church

*Doxology (hymn 32) LASST UNS ERFEUEN

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!

Go with Love

*Benediction

*Choral Benediction Response

“Father, Give Thy Benediction” David Schwoebel

Commissioned by Aubrey and Becky Daniels for Furman Singers, 1998

Postlude Albert L. Travis Toccata on “Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart”

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