Worship Guide Nov. 1, 2015 | All Saints' Day

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November 1, 2015

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All Saints’ Day

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Simple Words Second Baptist Church

Senior Pastor Jason Edwards

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Welcome Guests If you are a first-time guest, please complete a guest card from a pew pocket or Friendship Register and drop it in the offering plate so that we may acknowledge your visit and get acquainted with you. We are glad you have joined us for worship today. ________________________ Meditation

And the waves of pain did wash over me with a rhythmic quality. Ebbing and flowing. Coming and going. I felt I needed to lie completely still so as not to be swept away.

There was no escape, no way out except to go all the way through it. In time, the waves of grief subsided. It’s hard to describe what happened after that. I felt empty and spent, but I also felt comforted by God’s loving presence. Nothing was fixed, but I was okay. I had not been swept away.

— Ruth Haley Barton _________________________________

WE LOVE CHILDREN! Your entire family is welcome here! Children’s worship bags filled with books and activities are available at the Sanctuary entrances. If you’d like an alternative for your children, childcare for birth through Pre-K is available on Level 2 at any point in the service. Our Welcome Center is also available for those with restless infants, and you can view the service on a monitor there. __________________________________ Note: + Indicates stand if you are able. | Please see an usher for a listening aid.

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Online givers may participate in the worship offering by using the card in the pew rack.

The Worship of God All Saints’ day

November 1, 2015

8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Gathering

Carole Tanner

Invitation to Worship

Allan Aunspaugh

Candlelighting

Avery George

Prelude “Aria” Dustin Williams, trumpet

Flor Peeters

+Hymn of Praise 567

SINE NOMINE

“For All the Saints”

The New Testament Lesson

Revelation 21:1-6

Anna Driskill (8:30) Becky Whited (11:00)

(Pew Bible, page 204, New Testament)

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God! Litany of Remembrance

Jason Edwards

Leader: We gather together this day to remember our family

and friends who have died this past year.

Church Members Bernice Benningfield Dean Boring Ardis Driskill Lorraine Evans

Harland Ginn Dr. Wilbur Hill Ralph Meador Marjorie Stump

Children Lost through Miscarriage

Family Members Kenny Aladeen Stella Mae Aladeen Kaylup Anderson Dilila Brennin Rose Calder Mary Caldwell Dong Chung Rev. Merle Davis Pam Duffy Frances Eddy James Grubbs Alfreeda Hoggard Hugo Holland David Holt Pete Kingery Cynthia Long Patsy Maxwell

Elva McCluney Betty McCormick Doug McGlaughlin Earl Pangburg Arnold Peterson Catherine Pierce Dee Prindle Nancy Pulliam Aline Reed Harold Reed Lorene Rutledge Helen Scarborough Ernest Simon Rodney Tanner Shirley Tregemba Neil Walther Thomas Yates

We give you thanks, O God, for those whom we have loved.

People: We give you thanks for the laughter and the love,

the insight and the strength that they gave to us.

Leader: We thank you, O Lord, for bringing these unique

people into being and for bringing them into our lives.

People: And now their death has left an empty place

within us.

Leader: So we pray 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.

People: We hold on to 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 any words from the heart left unsaid.

Leader: O Lord, you have promised your presence through

the valley of the shadow of death.

People: We pray in confident trust that those who have

passed through that valley are now in your gentle

arms. And for us who remain on this side of the

valley, we pray for strength in our grieving and

joy in our remembering.

Leader: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud

of witnesses … let us run with perseverance the race

that is set before us.”

People: For these, our family and friends, we give you thanks.

Family members are invited to place a rose during the singing of the hymn.

Jason will be placing a rose in memory of the children lost through miscarriage.

+Hymn 48

“Great is Thy Faithfulness”

Prayers of the People

FAITHFULNESS

Jason Edwards

Worship in Music (8:30) Choral Worship “Sanctus” Dan Forrest from “Requiem For the Living” The Sanctuary Choir Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy, Holy, Holy, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Lord God of Hosts.

Pleni sunt caeli Heaven and earth et terra Gloria tua. are full of Thy glory.

Hosanna in excelsis! Hosanna in the highest!

The Old Testament Lesson

Lamentations 3:13-33 Roger Driskill (8:30) Ron Whited (11:00)

(Pew Bible, page 594, Old Testament)

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God!

Twelve Simple Words: Why

Sermon

Jason Edwards

+Hymn of Response 677 “When We Are Tested”

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The worship of the living God invites our response. Those who wish to profess faith in Christ and/or to unite with the church are invited to come forward and share your decision with the pastor.

+ Generosity Moment and Offertory Prayer

Kim Halfhill

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+A Time of Greeting

Jason Edwards

+Congregational Blessing

Jason Edwards

+The Sending Forth 633 ALL THE WAY “All the Way My Savior Leads Me” Stanza 1 All the way my Savior leads me; what have I to ask beside?

Can I doubt His tender mercy, who through life has been my Guide?

Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort, Here by faith in Him to dwell!

For I know, whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well; For I know, whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well.

+Postlude

“A Mighty Fortesss”

Emma Lou Diemer

 All Songs UBP CCLI #1091036

All Video UBP #502497070

Organ: Ann Posey Piano: Helen Brown (8:30), Carole Tanner (11:00) Sanctuary Sound: Dave Heston, Gary Pennington Media: John Hilton, Ben Lassiter

 PRAYER CONCERNS CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations Lauren and Chris Hassig on the birth of their first child, Hazel Grace, on Oct. 27. Proud uncle and aunt are Jason and Christy Edwards; proud grandparents are Ed and Beth Scarborough and Glen and Jo Edwards. Lauren and Chris make their home in Sugar Land, TX. Congratulations to Steve and Hanni Guinn on the birth of their daughter, Miriam Caroline, on Oct. 27. She weighed 8 lb 1 oz. She joins big sister, Eleanor.

Congratulations to Kenneth and Hannah White on the birth of their son, Noah Matthew, on Oct. 24. He joins big sisters Grace and Faith. Proud grandparents are Jerry and Christie White; their aunt is Marcie White.

CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY Christian sympathy is extended to Alan and Leslie Bunch and family in the death of Leslie’s uncle in Iowa.

LIBERTY HOSPITAL Tom Sneed OTHER PRAYER CONCERNS Denny Anderson, health Moira Carder, surgery recovery

WORSHIP LEADERS TODAY Avery George is a fifth grader at EPIC. She is the daughter of John and Karri George.

Kim Halfhill serves as the Volunteer Director of Equipping at Second. She works as a consultant for nonprofit organizations. Kim and her husband, Patrick, and their daughter, Kaylee, became part of the Second family after moving from Florida in 2014.

Becky Whited has been a member of 2BC since 1998. Ron is her husband. She is a retired ESL teacher and helps with the ESL classes here at Second. She teaches first grade Bible study and sings in the adult choir.

Ron Whited has been at Second since 1990 He owns his own software development company. He and Becky have a blended family of four children and three grandchildren. Ron leads the Media Capture Team.

Our Ministry Team Jason Edwards, Senior Pastor Allan Aunspaugh, Minister of Music | Ann Posey, Organist Mike Lassiter, Associate Pastor | Connie McNeill, Associate Pastor Charles Smith, Associate Pastor | Gwen Phillips, Children’s Pastor Linda Jones, Church Administrator

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