THE INTROIT “Give Me Jesus” (Crosby)

In the morning, when I rise

In the morning, when I rise

In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus

Refrain:

Give me Jesus

Give me Jesus

You can have all this world

But give me Jesus

And when I am alone

Oh, when I am alone

And when I am alone, give me Jesus [Refrain]

And when I come to die

Oh, when I come to die

And when I come to die, give me Jesus [Refrain]

CALL TO WORSHIP Pastor Don Darius Butler

Awake, O harp and lyre!

I will awake the dawn.

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples,

I will sing praises to you among the nations.

For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens;

your faithfulness extends to the clouds.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens.

Let your glory be over all the earth. —Psalm 57:8-11, NRSV

HYMN OF ENTREATY “Sing a Song of Celebration” (Brown)

Sing a song of celebration

Of the Christ who’s now alive,

Lifted up by resurrection

In His life we find our lives.

In the flesh He lived a season,

First a child and then a man,

Live and died and now is risen,

All a part of God’s great plan.

FMBC AT WORSHIP 8:30 AM

Sing a song of Christ’s salvation

Celebrate new liberty.

By Christ’s death we have redemption;

By His life we are set free.

He came humbly, God’s good servant,

Willingly He came to die.

He was faithful and obedient.

By His death we come to life.

Sing a song of Christ the Victor.

He has triumphed! He did win!

Over death He was the conquer’r;

He removed its painful sting.

Christ defeated sins’ strong power;

He crossed out its potency.

Though our sin caused Him to suffer

Christ lead us to victory.

Sing a song of our Lord Jesus

Who once lived and loved on earth.

Now His Spirit lives within us

Giving us a second birth.

Celebrate His living presence.

Christ, the Spirit, God now gives,

Off’ring more than mere existence;

All He touches truly lives.

Sing a song of exaltation

To the Christ who is the Lord.

Offer Him your adoration—

Jesus Christ, the living Word.

Soon He comes in exultation,

Lord of lords and King of kings.

On that day of consummation

Praise will make the heavens ring.

PRAYER OF ADORATION Minister Robert Clark

SUNG RESPONSE “I Love The Lord, He Hear My Cry” (Watts)

I love the Lord; He heard my cry,

And pitied ev’ry groan;

Long as I live, while troubles rise,

I'll hasten to His throne.

I love the Lord; He bowed His ear;

He’s ever good and just.

Then let my heart feel no despair!

His power has all my trust.

If He beholds me sore distressed,

He bids my pains remove;

He’ll turn my soul to Him, my rest,

And witness to His love.

WELCOME GREETINGS & WORSHIP THROUGH GIVING

READING OF SCRIPTURE: LAMENTATIONS 2 The Reverend Dr. Janette C. Kotey

Minister Clark 1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion

with the cloud of his anger!

He has hurled down the splendor of Israel

from heaven to earth;

he has not remembered his footstool

in the day of his anger.

2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up

all the dwellings of Jacob;

in his wrath he has torn down

the strongholds of Daughter Judah.

He has brought her kingdom and its princes

down to the ground in dishonor.

3 In fierce anger he has cut off

every horn of Israel.

He has withdrawn his right hand

at the approach of the enemy.

He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire

that consumes everything around it.

4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow;

his right hand is ready.

Like a foe he has slain

all who were pleasing to the eye;

he has poured out his wrath like fire

on the tent of Daughter Zion.

5 The Lord is like an enemy;

he has swallowed up Israel.

He has swallowed up all her palaces

and destroyed her strongholds.

He has multiplied mourning and lamentation

for Daughter Judah.

6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;

he has destroyed his place of meeting.

The Lord has made Zion forget

her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;

in his fierce anger he has spurned

both king and priest.

7 The Lord has rejected his altar

and abandoned his sanctuary.

He has given the walls of her palaces

into the hands of the enemy;

they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord

as on the day of an appointed festival.

8 The Lord determined to tear down

the wall around Daughter Zion.

He stretched out a measuring line

and did not withhold his hand from destroying.

He made ramparts and walls lament;

together they wasted away.

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;

their bars he has broken and destroyed.

Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations,

the law is no more,

and her prophets no longer find

visions from the Lord.

10 The elders of Daughter Zion

sit on the ground in silence;

they have sprinkled dust on their heads

and put on sackcloth.

The young women of Jerusalem

have bowed their heads to the ground.

11 My eyes fail from weeping,

I am in torment within;

my heart is poured out on the ground

because my people are destroyed,

because children and infants faint

in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers,

“Where is bread and wine?”

as they faint like the wounded

in the streets of the city,

as their lives ebb away

in their mothers’ arms.

13 What can I say for you?

With what can I compare you,

Daughter Jerusalem?

To what can I liken you,

that I may comfort you,

Virgin Daughter Zion?

Your wound is as deep as the sea.

Who can heal you?

14 The visions of your prophets

were false and worthless;

they did not expose your sin

to ward off your captivity.

The prophecies they gave you

were false and misleading.

15 All who pass your way

clap their hands at you;

they scoff and shake their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem:

“Is this the city that was called

the perfection of beauty,

the joy of the whole earth?”

16 All your enemies open their mouths

wide against you;

they scoff and gnash their teeth

and say, “We have swallowed her up.

This is the day we have waited for;

we have lived to see it.”

17 The Lord has done what he planned;

he has fulfilled his word,

which he decreed long ago.

He has overthrown you without pity,

he has let the enemy gloat over you,

he has exalted the horn of your foes.

18 The hearts of the people

cry out to the Lord.

You walls of Daughter Zion,

let your tears flow like a river

day and night;

give yourself no relief,

your eyes no rest.

19 Arise, cry out in the night,

as the watches of the night begin;

pour out your heart like water

in the presence of the Lord.

Lift up your hands to him

for the lives of your children,

who faint from hunger

at every street corner.

20 “Look, Lord, and consider:

Whom have you ever treated like this?

Should women eat their offspring,

the children they have cared for?

Should priest and prophet be killed

in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 “Young and old lie together

in the dust of the streets;

my young men and young women

have fallen by the sword.

You have slain them in the day of your anger;

you have slaughtered them without pity.

22 “As you summon to a feast day,

so you summoned against me terrors on every side.

In the day of the Lord’s anger

no one escaped or survived;

those I cared for and reared

my enemy has destroyed.”

MUSIC OF PREPARATION

SERMON Pastor Butler

INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP

MUSIC OF AFFIRMATION

PASTORAL PRAYER Reverend Kotey

SENDING FORTH & BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE

Sis. Betty Adams

Sis. Shirley Armstead

Sis. Odell Booker

Bro. Robert Booker

Bro. Von Burton

Sis Gloria Betts Caldwell

Sis. Charlotte Camble

Sis. Patricia Cox

Sis. Pamela Curry

Bro. Eugene Daniels

Sis. Edna Fails

Sis. Barbara Freeman

Sis. Brenda Gurley

Sis. Mattie Gurley

Sis. Akita Hare

Sis. Roslin Hicks

Bro. Joseph Derell Hobson

Sis. Janie Holifield

Sis. Tiffany Kennedy

Bro. Robert L. Malone

Sis. Dorothy Matthews

Bro. Earnest McDonald

Sis. Helen Mitchell

Bro. Doug Montgomery

Sis. Lynell Moore

Bro. Emanuel Murrah

Sis. Diane Cutts Oates

Bro. Ricardo Oates

Bro. Manguell Parker

Bro. Marion Phillips

Bro. Henry Pope

Sis. Annie Pride

Sis. Ella Malisa Rice

Bro. Gary Ridgell

Sis. Annie Rountree

Sis. Charlene Scissum

Bro. Clyde Shields

Bro. Alfred Smith

Sis. Sonya Smith

Bro. Walter Stewart

Sis. Janice Summerhill

Min. Melvin Summerhill

Sis. Deborah Thompson

Sis. Girtha Thompson

Sis. Ann Warren

Bro. Ronald Waterford

Sis. Shelly Wyckoff

Out Of The City

Dea. Willie Campbell, Nashville, TN

Bro. Carl Johnson, Bessemer, AL

Sis. Bertha Youngblood, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Sis. Carrie McKinney, St. Louis, MO

Sis. Carita Mitchell, Philadelphia, PA

Healthcare Facilities

Sis. Nell Carodine, Regency Retirement Village

Sis. Ethel Henderson, Millennium Healthcare

Bro. Henry Freeman, Brookshire

Min. Louise Freeman, Brookshire

Sis. Barbara Gordon, Private Healthcare (The Friend)

Bro. Carl Johnson, Terrace Oaks Care & Rehab

Bro. Samuel Martin, Floyd E. Tut Fann Home

Sis. Ruth Matthews, Regency Retirement Village

Sis. Gladys Moore, Harbor Chase

Bro. Kevin Snodgrass, Big Springs Specialty Care Center

BEREAVEMENTS

Pray for those who are grieving the loss of a family member.

▪ Service for Mr. Roland Harris (Brother Cedric Harris’ father) are pending.

▪ Arrangements are being made for the following:

o Service for Mr. Robert Baker (Sister Joyce Arterberry’s uncle) are pending.

o Service Brother Jay Reaves (husband of Sister Barbara Reaves) are pending.

o Mrs. Lilia Horry (Brother Michael Horry’s sister-in-law)

OUR KNOWN SICK AND SHUT-IN MEMBERS “The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.” James 6:16b

Let us pray together for the sick.

Greg Johnson

Sylvia Oakes

Carolyn Reedus & Family

CARDS RECEIVED

Monday 10:45 a.m. Balance Class via Conference Call

6:00 p.m. Girl Scout Closing Program via Zoom

6:00 p.m. Witnessing Seminar via Zoom

7:00 p.m. YAM Choir Rehearsal via Zoom

Tuesday 5:00 a.m. Intercessory Prayer via Conference Callklj

6:00 p.m. Boy Scouts via Conference Call

6:00 p.m. Youth Council/Youth Advisors Meeting via Zoom

7:00 p.m. Brotherhood Chorus Rehearsal via Zoom

Wednesday 10:45 a.m. Balance Class via Conference Call

12:00 p.m. Bible Study via Livestream, Facebook & Instagram

1:00 p.m. Keenage Ministry Meeting via Conference Call

6:00 p.m. Youth Choir Rehearsal via Zoom

Thursday 7:00 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal via Zoom

Friday 5:15 p.m. Sunbeam Choir Rehearsal

Saturday ----- -----------------

Sunday 8:30 a.m. Morning Worship via Livestream

10:00 a.m. Adult Sunday School via Livestream, Zoom & Facebook

11:00 a.m. Children & Youth Sunday School via Zoom

MINISTRY ACTIVITIES WEEK OF MAY 11 - 17, 2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Enter a New Realm!

Let’s connect via Realm! It’s our new membership

database that will make engaging with the ministry

and members of FMBC a breeze. Once you sign up, it

allows members to update their own data, view

church events and receive the latest updates. Here’s

how you connect:

▪ Make sure we have your current email address. You can send updated information right away to churchadministrator@fmbc.org.

▪ Be on the lookout for an email from ACS—Realm. See the logo below for reference.

▪ Contact the church office with any questions.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AT FMBC

Position Title: Custodian (Full Time)

Opening Date: February 14, 2020

Closing Date: Until Filled

FMBC Job Applications can be found at

(www.fmbc.org); go to Career Opportunities under

Media & Resources for an application.