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

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Looking Ahead

Mary Carol AndersonYouth and Recreation

Bootie CothranMedia and Technology

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 MatthewsWorship Arts

Juli MorrowPreschool

Rosemary NewFirst Baptist Day School

Kendra PlatingPastoral Care

Becky RamseyChildren

Matt RollinsSpiritual Formation and

Outreach

Frank A. SmithNeighborhood Partnership and Christian Fellowship

Kathy StewartFirst Baptist Day School

Laura StoutMissions

November 5, 11:30amChildren’s Discipleship Class,

Part 1

November 5, 4:00pmVocare (Choir Room)

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

November 7, NoonHop On, Hop Off Bible Tour

(Fellowship Hall)

November 7, 6:30pmFirst Baptist Day School

Presentation on Social Media and Technology: Harry Shucker, Presenter

November 8Wednesdays at First Activities

November 12, 9:30amGuided Prayer Practicum in

Fellowship Hall – Stephanie Patterson

November 12, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

November 12, 11:30amChildren’s Discipleship Class,

Part 2Church Conference and Baked

Potato Bar Fundraiser (Fellowship Hall)

November 12, 4:00pmVocare (Choir Room)

November 14Holy Rollers to Bargain Foods in

Pelzer

November 15Roadrunners to LunchWednesdays at First Activities

November 19, 10:30amJim Dant, Proclaimer

November 19, 11:30amLunch for Visitors (Fellowship Hall)

November 19, 11:30am-3:00pmChildren’s Ministry Event: Lunch

and Ice SkatingNovember 19, 5:00pm

Lulapalooza Texas Hold ’em Poker Tournament

November 21-25AYMC Closed for Refinishing Gym

Floor

Ella Burns and Caroline Feldman are the acolytes today.

We are pleased to welcome New York City based pianist/composer Deanna Witkowski in worship with us this morning. Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a former guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, Deanna has been heralded for her “consistently thrilling” playing and her “boundless imagination” (All Music Guide). Deanna’s new trio recording, Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns, features twelve of her congregational jazz hymn arrangements along with a corresponding sheet music songbook. Her earlier releases include Raindrop: Improvisations with Chopin, a solo piano session that seamlessly combines jazz, classical, and Brazilian music; three jazz quartet recordings; and the liturgical jazz release, From This Place, with new hymn and psalm settings and a complete jazz Mass with four vocalists. Deanna’s accolades in 2017 include winning the Annual Hymn Search of The Hymn Society in the US and Canada (for her congregational song, “We Belong to God”); the ChoralArt New England Carol Contest (for her a cappella choral setting of the G.K. Chesterton poem, “A Christmas Carol”); and the Colorado Chorale commissioning contest. Her SATB song, “We Walk in Love,” is published in the new Justice Choir songbook. As a newly named Sacatar Institute Fellow, Witkowski will spend two months in Bahia, Brazil this spring doing research related to her new Brazilian project, the Nossa Senhora Suite. Deanna’s recordings and sheet music are available for purchase in the reception desk area following the service as well as at her website, deannajazz.com.

Greenville-based musician Shannon Hoover plays electric and acoustic bass, piano, and brass. A 2004 graduate of Anderson University (SC), Shannon has a B.A. in Double Bass Performance and is a freelance performer, composer, private instructor, clinician, and founder of the Greenville Jazz Collective, a non-profit group that promotes jazz awareness and education. Shannon is also the jazz band director at USC-Upstate in Spartanburg. Shannon is active both as a bandleader and sideman. His 2012 recording, “Follow Me,” features all original compositions. Visit greenvillejazzcollective.com for more information.

Brenda League is the deacon providing the offertory prayer today. Brenda is a member of the Johnson Class and the Crazy Eights Circle. She also serves as a Greeter and as a trustee of the Foundation. She has an adult son, Kelly.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given in loving memory of Mr. L.L. Shealy by his family.

Communion Committee members scheduled to prepare today are John and Martha Burwell.

Musical selections today include: “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal” arranged by Alice Parker, © 1967.

November 5, 2017

All Saints Sunday

Ten Thirty O’clock

Financial Needs as of 11/4$2,115,388

Receipts as of 10/31$1,893,,125

Lula Whilden World Missions Offering Goal $125,000

Reciepts as of 10/31$40,831

*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

Welcome to Worshipers Jim Dant

Music for Preparation Deanna Witkowski “Wide Open Window”

dedicated to Mary Lou Williams

Call to Worship

Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good.

God’s steadfast love endures forever.

With all the saints we sing God’s praise;

With all the blessed ones, let us sing.

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

Words of Faith

New Testament Lesson Revelation 7:9-17 Frank Smith

Page 999 of the Bible in the pew rack

Choral Worship arr. Alice Parker “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal”

Words of Remembrance

Litany of Remembrance Kendra Plating

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.

Words of Communion

Celebration of the Lord’s Supper

“Pass Me Not” Deanna Witkowski – Fanny Crosby (text)

“There Is a Balm in Gilead” African-American Spiritual arr. Deanna Witkowski

Words of Commitment

*Invitation Hymn 283 HANSON PLACE “Shall We Gather at the River”

Invitation to Offering Brenda League

Worship God if you want the best; worship opens doors to all [God’s] goodness. (Psalm 34:9, The Message)

Musical Offering “Let My Prayer Rise” (Psalm 141) Deanna Witkowski

Introduction of New Members

Service and Fellowship of the Church

*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!

Words of Dismissal

*Benediction

*Postlude Deanna Witkowski Improvisation on “Let My Prayer Rise”

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

So we pray for ourselves, 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.

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: Charlie Brock, Helen Ellis, Marion Faile, Joseph Fuson, Twinkle Hoskins, Julaine Odom, Elaine Peebles, Anne Brady, Myles Golden, Basil Manly, Champ Scott, Joan Cauble, Martha Power, Grace Gilchrist, Anne Crabtree, Jack Taylor, Linda Hamilton, Pepper Martin, Bill Godsey, Jean Coogler, Harry Chapman III, Maurice Brown, Ethel Wright, Craig Nielson, Catherine Ann Jeter and Anna Katherine Armitage. (Time for voicing additional names)

Music for Meditation Deanna Witkowski Improvisation

Prayer of Remembrance

*Centering Hymn 166 arr. Deanna Witkowski “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”

Sermon Risky Business Jim Dant