8am Message

“Weeping Under the Willows” Psalm 137:1-4

1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

— Psalm 137:1-4 —

11am Worship

“How Can We Sing?” Psalm 137:1-4

SUNDAY | October 8, 2017

The Call To Worship and The Invocation | 8am & 11:00am

Deacon-led Devotional Period | 10:45am

Opening Hymn #30 We Have Come Into This House ***

The Word of God | Psalm 150

The Hymn #292| “Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus

Music Ministry Month Choir Day Praise Period

Sis. Katie Sankey | Bro. N.B. Wooding

The Prayer Period

Announcements and Visitor Recognition|11am Worship Trunk or Treat Appeal

Offertory Period | Offertory Prayer

Responsive Reading #605| Praising The Lord

Music Ministry Month Choir Day Praise Period

Sis. Katie Sankey | Bro. N.B. Wooding

Today’s Choir Day Messages by Pastor Brooks “Weeping Under the Willows” — Psalm137:1-4| 8am

“How Can We Sing?” — Psalm 137:1-4 | 11am

The Invitational Period During this period we welcome those who wish to unite with us by asking to be baptized; or by transfer of membership from another Baptist church (by letter); or by Christian experience (if the letter cannot be

obtained); or by restoration (returning to New Pilgrim as your church home). Come, join the pastors at the pulpit. You are welcome here!

The Bread of Life Offering

The Transition to Sunday School | 8am worship The Benediction | 11am worship

Today is the best Sunday to Attend Sunday School! Christian Education Hour | 9:05am

Please join us for Sunday Bible Classes today! “God’s Covenant With Israel” | Exodus 19:16-25

Next Sunday’s Lesson: “Obeying God’s Law” | Exodus 20:18-26

MUSIC MINISTRY MONTH | CHOIR DAY

Cherry Hill Rehabilitation, 1250 Jeff Germany Pkwy 35214 — Sis. Lillie Martin Oak Knoll Rehabilitation — 824 6th Avenue West 35204— Sis. Rosie Boyd (March) Fairview Nursing Home — Sis. Janie Perdue Oak Knoll Nursing Home— Sis. Margaret Bickerstaff UAB Highlands— Sis. Lois Carr Arlington Rehabilitation- 1020 Tuscaloosa Ave. SW., 35211—Sis. Ericka Wilkerson St. Vincent’s Hospital — Sis. Alberta Reese, Sis. Dorothy Taylor At Home Bro. John Lewis, 3416 7th Ave. S., Apt 313, 35205 Sis. Adrianne Voltz-Topping, 5846 Water Branch Road, Hoover 35244 Sis. Dorothy Taylor, 1301 McCray St. SW, 35211 Sis. Pamela Haywood, 1910 Spring Lake Court, 35215 Sis. Ida P. Tarver, 701 21st St SW, 35211 Sis. Rosie Summerville, 605 16th Way SW, 35211 Sis. Rosie Hampton, 3416 7th Ave S Apt. 711, 35222 Sis. Annie Word, 4600 13th Ave. N., 35212 Bro. Reginald Hendricks, 9725 Westfield Ct, 35217 Sis. Linzy Harper-Hall Sis. Janie Safford, 801 Bolin Street SW 35211, (Nov.) Sis. Della Watkins, 1129 Zellmark Lane, 35235 Bro. Cecil Washington, 437 5th Court, Pleasant Grove Sis. Mary Harris, 5143 Meadow LakeTrails, Bessemer, 35020 Bro. Vincent Northorp, 5729 Court O, Birmingham 35228 Sis. Sallie E. McMillan, 6329 Winwood Drive, Anniston, AL 36206 Bro. Samuel Johnson, 1324 19th PL SW, Birmingham, 35211 Sis. Marcella Smith, 8 20th Ave. S. Birmingham 35205 Sis. Pearlie Pugh, 2323 31st St. SW, 35221 Bro. Paul Goodwin, 3556 Tamassee Lane, Hoover 35226 Bro. Boss Avery, 1600 Goldwire Street SW 35211 Sis. Mary Warren, 5175 Westlake Drive Apt. 12 Memphis, TN 38135 Sis. Jackie Collins, 910 Ridge Place 35214 (August) Sis. Rosa Norman Davis, 909 Princeton Avenue SW #506 35211 (Dec.) Bro. Watt Brown, 744 Belwood Circle Fairfield 35064 Sis. Ida E. Tarver, 701 21st Street SW 35211 (August) Sis. Evelyn Craig, 18457 Harlow Detroit, Michigan 48235 (October) Sis. Carrie Jarrett, 1644 Matt Leonard Dr. SW 35211 (Sep) Sis. Cynthia Brown, #7 - 20th Avenue South 35205 (Jan.) Sis. Eloise Hargrove, 2720 Autumn Chase Drive Chattanooga, TN 37421 Sis. Ella Lois Harper, 2131 Ridge Road South Apt. W127 Largo, Florida 33778 (October) Sis. Carolyn Mills, 2131 Ridge Road South Apt W127 Largo, Florida 33778 (Jan.) Sis. Willie Nell Harris 5456 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. #175 Atlanta, GA 30341 Sis. Brenda Graham, 4645 Spring St. Apt. 1221 Acworth, GA 30101 (May) Sis. Frances Fields, 2004 Center St. S., 35205 Sis. Jesse Hunter, 1728 Davis Ave SW 35211 —————————— Mr. Emanuel Balams, Jr., Esq. (Husband of ReShea Jones Balams, Esq., son-in-law of Sis. Carolyn Jones) Samuel Martin, St. Vincent’s Hospital, father of Sadena Ward Ms. Bianca Lindsey in Jackson, MS (granddaughter of Bro. Kenneth Polk) Ms. Willa Wiggins in Cincinatti, OH (Sister of Sis. Mamie Stewart) Sis. Stephanie Charlie, Eastview Rehabilitation Center, East Lake Mr. Cameron Christopher Waters, cousin of Sis. Angela Gilmore Mrs. Cynthia Northorp, sister in law of Brenda Northorp Reginald Parker, son of Ms. Hannah Parker Mrs. Anna Germany, Sister of Sis. Ida E. Tarver LaBrenda McNeil in New Jersey (Niece of Laura B. Harris) Minister Turner of the Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir

Our Prayers are with the families of victims of the Las Vegas Mandalay Resort mass shooting. May God grant them and us peace, healing,

and comfort in these most difficult and deadly times.

Pastor Brooks is always on-call for pastoral needs and emergencies: 205-432-9225. Please help us keep our Let Us Pray page announcements up-to-date by calling changes in to

RaShaun Larry at 326-0923 in the church office Monday — Friday, 9am—5pm. Please submit all bulletin items for consideration to the church office by Wednesdays at noon.

“The Legacy of Black Church Music is the Foundation for Its Future” Gospel music is a product of the religion, culture, and history that constitute the African American experience. Below is a repre-sentative, but by no means complete, historic timeline chronicling major events in the development of gospel music. 1619 – The first Africans are brought to the British colony of Jamestown as indentured servants. The African’s emphasis on musical elements such as call and response, improvisation, poly-rhythms, and percussive affinities will form the basis of gospel and all other forms of African American musical expression.

1674 – Hymnist and theologian Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is born in England. The writer of more than 750 hymns, his songs will become so popular among African Americans that they are simply referred to as “an old Dr. Watts.” 1730’s – The Great Awakening, a religious revival in British North America, sig-nals the first major effort to Christianize enslaved Africans.

1777 – George Leile establishes the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, the oldest Black church in North America. 1780 – John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Peo-ple Called Methodist is published. Songs such as “There is a Fountain Filled with Blood” and “Father I Stretch My Hands to Thee” quickly become standards of the African American sacred music tradition. 1787 – With the establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent African American Christian denomina-tion in the United States is created. 1800’s – African American innovation in Christian-centered sacred music begins to distinguish itself in the forms of spirituals, shouts, lined-hymns, and anthems. 1865 – Slavery legally abolished with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. 1871 – The Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on their inaugural tour to raise money to help save Fisk University from closure. Eventually becoming an international tour, the choir brings the sacred music of African Americans the attention of the world. The Jubilee Singers also provide a model a tight, four part harmony-centered, choral sing-ing that will continue for generations within the African American community.

1901 – Songwriter and religious leader Charles Albert Tindley begins publishing songs in Philadelphia. Classic compositions by Tindley include “Stand By Me,” “We’ll Understand it Better By and By,” and “Some Day (Beams of Heaven).”

1906 – The Azusa Street Revival begins in Los Angeles under the direc-tion of the African American religious pioneer William Seymour. In addi-tion to giving rise to modern-day Pentecostalism, the music of the revival recaptures the energy of the pre-emancipation shouts and is one of the key events in the development of gospel music. 1920’s – American recording companies begin producing “race records” to market to the African American consumer. In addition to blues, ragtime, and early jazz, African American preachers and gospel artists such as Ari-zona Dranes, Blind Willie Johnson, and Washington Phillips will also be highlighted in part because of the fresh, raw sound. This music is also re-ferred to as the gospel blues and the holy blues.

1921 – The National Baptist Convention publishes the songbook Gospel Pearls, the first hymnal from a major African American denomination to include selections of the new music that would become known as gospel.

1931 – Theodore Frye and Thomas A. Dorsey create the first gospel chorus. Dorsey would go on to co-found the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. Included among Dorsey’s more than 400 compositions are the gospel standards “Precious Lord,” “Peace in the Valley,” and “Highway to Heaven.”

1938 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe scores the first million-selling gospel record with the hit single “This Train.” Tharpe was the dominant gospel music performer of the late 1930’s and 1940’s, mixing soulful guitar licks and big band accompaniment with sacred lyrics.

1945-1965 – The Golden Age of Gospel—due to its un-precedented popularity—was dominated by soloists such as Mahalia Jackson and groups like Swan Silvertones, the Caravans, and the Original Gospel Harmonettes. Perhaps the most important group to this expansion beyond the church walls was the Clara Ward Singers.

1967 – “Oh Happy Day” is recorded by the Northern California State Youth Choir (later dubbed the Edwin Hawkins Singers). This one song almost single-handedly creates the genre known as contemporary gospel. Key groups, soloists, and compos-ers in this movement include Walter Hawkins, Tramaine Hawkins, Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, the Winans, and the Clark Sisters. Reverend James Cleveland and Mattie Moss Clark helped give rise to the movement by their tireless work com-posing, arranging, and recording for large choirs.

1997 – “Stomp!!,” from “God’s Property From Kirk Franklin’s Nu Nation,” is released, blowing open the doors of the church and demanded that it make room for urban culture.

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Lovejoy Clay Dale P. Cole (Lucy Hayes Memo-

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Leon Embry William and Emily Ellis

Ashley Estelle

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Sam Ezell Fareedah Fields

Niya Fields Wanye Fields Eula Foster

Mr. & Mrs. Billy Fox Cirri Fritz

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Monderic Gales Aurelia Gholston

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The Girls at Childrens Village James and Deloris Goodwin

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Rosie Hampton Catherine Hardrick

Eloise Hardy Lillie Harper

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Mary Haygood Pamela Haywood

Carlton Henderson Debra Henderson

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Harvey and Emma Henley Maycon Hernandez

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C. Ray and Loretta Holley Laurtha Hopson

Wilbert Hoskins, Jr. Ja’Marria Hudson

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Rosalind Jackson Barron and Christie Jefferson

Bridget Jefferson Donald Jelks

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Ann Johnson Ava Johnson

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Erica Lumpkin Milton and Janice Madison

Angela Malone-Henry Eddie and Betty Malone

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Wilson and Malera Wright Six Anonymous Pilgrims

Our capital campaign to pay for roofing & coating our sanctuary

Each Pilgrim is asked to bring

$1,000.00 to

help us reach our goal!

COME GROW WITH US: The Youth Ministry continues to reach youth and teens who are engaged to learn about the WORD of God. So meet us every Wednesday night from 6pm to 7:30pm. We minister to children ages toddler through 18. We have plenty of teaching, plenty of food, plenty of fellowship. We’re expecting you. Don’t miss it — feel free to invite a friend.

New Pilgrim Prayer Ministry Every 1st and 3rd Saturday

at 7:00 a.m.

Chapel of Friends. All are welcome. We will pray with you!

— Relevant, Responsible, Real-life, Refreshing!—

Rev. Dr. James H. Brooks Senior Pastor

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LAST SUNDAY OF OCTOBER

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BREAD

OF LIFE

MINISTRY

New Pilgrim

Reaching Out to The Last, The Least, And the Lost

Homeless Meals Monday-Friday Church of the Reconciler Groceries Distribution Twice Monthly Benevolence Ministry Weekly

Gathering & Giving for the Week of October 1, 2017

The people came……. 8:00 a.m. Worship 642

11:00 a.m. Worship 590 Midday Manna 49

Evening Enrichment 48 Youth Ministry 26

The people gave ….... Online Giving Last Week $479.00 Online Giving This Week $2,162.60

8:00 a.m. Worship $14,333.50 11:00 a.m. Worship $9,789.35 Total for Last Sunday $26,764.45

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Given Thus Far $1,041,822.69

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Saturday,

October 14, 2017

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

37th Annual Bazaar

Shops Bakery

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Crowning of New Pilgrim Towers King and Queen

The Tenth Pastoral Anniversary of

Rev. Dr. James H. Brooks Senior Pastor

Sunday, November 12, 2017 708 Goldwire Place, SW Birmingham, AL 35211

Pastor House of Restoration

Christian Outreach Ministries Graysville, AL

Senior Pastor Sardis Baptist Church

Birmingham, AL

Anniversary Theme

Blessed To Be A Blessing Psalm 1

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Church Calendar

Today, October 8th | 11am Choir Day! A Celebration of Music Ministry Month

“Katie Sankey and N.B. Wooding Share”

Monday, October 9th Columbus Day |Church and Credit Union Offices are closed

Sunday, October 15th I 8 & 11 am

Meet the Mortgage Sunday Praise Him in Pink! All day long!

Mission Ministry Fall Membership Drive (after Worship Services)

Monday, October 16th I 5:30 pm Pilgrim Readers

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” By Rebecca Skloot (non– fiction)

Wednesday, October 25th I 6:00pm

“Trunk or Treat” Candy and Financial Donations now being received!

In Support of Breast Cancer Prevention, Cure and Awareness

Cancer? — There is Hope! In collaboration with

UAB The Alabama Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program

The Deep South Network for Cancer Control The Susan G. Komen for the Cure of North Central Alabama

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