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Welcome to Big Bethel AME Church • Atlanta 7:30AM & 10:00AM Worship Service

Sunday, November 24, 2019

The Organ Prelude…………..……………………………..……………………………….. Bro. Phillip Skerritt Jr.

The Processional…….........…………….……….………………..……….Ministers, Stewards, Choir & Acolytes

The Doxology…………..……..……..……………………….…………………………….………….A.M.E. Hymn No. 647

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him all creatures here below; Praise Him above ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

The Call to Worship

Minister: I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord!” Our feet have

been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! (Psalm 122:1-2)

People: For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in

the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (Psalm 84:10)

Minister: For the sake of the house of the Lord our God; I will seek your good. (Psalm 122:9)

People: They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.

Minister: O Lord, I love the habitation of your house, and the place where your glory dwells.

People: But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. (Habakkuk 2:20)

Minister: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight,

O Lord, my Rock, and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

People: O sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done marvelous things! I will sing of loyalty and of justice, to you, O Lord, I will sing. (Psalm 98:1,4) The Hymn of Praise……………….………………….……………….…………….…”I Just Want To Thank You Lord”

Thank you Lord, thank you Lord , thank you Lord, I jus t want to thank you Lord

Been so good, been so good, been so good, I jus t want to Thank you Lord

Made a way, Made a way, Made a way, I jus t want to Thank you Lord

Saved m y sou l , saved m y sou l , saved m y soul , I jus t want to thank you Lord

Thank you Lord, thank you Lord , thank you Lord, I jus t want to thank you Lord

Invocation

The Choral Response

The Worship Through Music…………………………...Big Bethel Praise Team /Bearden-Scott Youth Choir The Responsive Scripture …………..…………………………………………….…………………….Colossians 1:11-18 Minister: 11 May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully People: 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. Minister: 13 He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

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The Responsive Scripture (Continued) ……………………………………………………...………Colossians 1:11-18 People: 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Minister: 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

People: 16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers--all things have been created through him and for him.

Minister: 17 He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

ALL: 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.

The Preface to the Decalogue………………………………………………………….…..“From All That Dwell”

From all that dwell below the skies, let the Creator’s praise arise; let the Redeemer’s name be sung, through every land by every tongue.

The Summary of the Decalogue

And Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is

the great and first commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments

depend all the law and the prophets.

The Gloria Patri…………………………………………..…………………….…………...“Glory Be to the Father”

The Welcome to Big Bethel……………….…………..…………………………………………...Philippian Ministry

The Pastor’s Words

The Big Bethel Ministry Moment

The Marriage Recommittal Ceremony…………………………….………………..….Married Couples Ministry

The Worship Through Creative Expression………………………….………..…..Kwanza-Sol Dance Ministry

The Worship In Giving: tithes & offering

The Exercise of Christian Stewardship— Deuteronomy 16:17(NIV)

17Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you. The Choral Response………………………………….……………………….…………….……… A.M.E. Hymn #646

The Altar Call

The Worship Through Music…………………………Big Bethel Praise Team/Bearden-Scott Youth Choir

The Sermon…………..………….……………………………………….:30AM Rev. Evelyn Jones/

10:00AM Rev. Dr. Lairalaine Morgan White

Invitation to Christian Discipleship

The Recessional

The Doxology

The Benediction

The Organ Postlude……………………………………………..………………………… Bro. Phillip Skerritt, Jr.

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SERVING IN TODAY’S WORSHIP EXPRERIENCE

10:00 7:30

Acolytes Christian & Alexander Johnson Stewards Choir Bearden-Scott Youth Choir Big Bethel Praise Team

Philippians Keith Burnett & StaceyAnn Taylor Keith Burnett & Robbie Bray

Stewardesses R.T. Bussey Stewardess Ministry R.T. Bussey Stewardess Ministry

Stewards Rosa Baxter & Leslie Egbarin Stan Foster & Tallulah Ragsdale Trustees Joseph Patterson & Nannette McGee Linda Jolly &

Ushers Usherette Ministry #3 Usherette Ministry #3

AV Ministry Phyllis Smiley, Tobreshia Horn, Diarra Davis Marvin Fleming, Diarra Davis, Phyllis Smiley

Finance Team Team 1-B Team 1-A

Let us remember our sick and shut-in with our cards & calls.

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE READINGS

Twentieth Sunday

after Pentecost First* reading and Psalm Alternate* First read-

ing and Psalm Second reading Gospel

November 24, 2019 Jeremiah 23:1-6 Luke 1:68-79 **

Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 46

Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43

** In a very few instances in the Lectionary, no Psalm reading is offered for reasons relating to the thematic nature of the Day.

Sis. Patricia Coles (404) 254-4806

Bro. Horace Ford (770)478-3013

Bro. Marion Hopkins (404) 691-3615

Sis. Ernestine Johnson (404) 629-0984

Rev. Betty Miley (770) 323-6841

Bro. Jack Shannon (404) 691-4590

Sis. Joyce Spearman (404) 286-4891

Bro. Don Stewart (678) 289-2579

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