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Sunday, January 27 Youth Barbecue Sale Ends Today 9:00 a.m. Scrap Iron Broadcast (WLAQ 1410) 9:00 a.m. Youth Choir - Choir Suite Youth Parent Panel - Youth Room 9:45 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Worship 12:00 p.m. Holy Land Seminar & Lunch - Fellowship Hall Food on the Fourth (College Ministry) 5:00 p.m. Youth Small Groups

Monday, January 28 9:30 a.m. Centering Prayer - Prayer Room 10:00 a.m. Women’s Bible Study - Dining Room 5:15 p.m. First Baptist Ringers Resume 5:30 p.m. Women’s Small Group - Community Room 7:00 p.m. The Edge (HS Seniors) - Uldrick Home

Tuesday, January 29 First Baptist Serves Community Kitchen 12:00 p.m. Men’s Bible Study - Dining Room

Wednesday, January 30 First Baptist Serves Community Kitchen 5:00 p.m. First Choice Dinner - Fellowship Hall 5:45 p.m. Children’s Choirs Youth Gathering - Youth Room Women’s Small Group - 3rd Floor Education Bldg. 6:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting - Fellowship Hall 6:15 p.m. Youth Bible Study - Youth Room 6:20 p.m. Adult Choice Seminar - Dining Room & Chapel 6:30 p.m. Children on Mission 6:45 p.m. Sanctuary Choir - Choir Suite

Thursday, January 31 First Baptist Serves Community Kitchen

Friday, February 1 First Baptist Serves Community Kitchen 5:30 p.m. 5th & 6th Grade Retreat - Mentone

The flowers in the Narthex are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Jim and Jane Phillips by Curt and Jamie Wallace.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in honor of Ansley Saville on the occasion of her birthday by Dean Saville.

YOUTH MINISTRY BARBECUE SALE FINAL DAY TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS! Pickup your BBQ on Saturday, February 2 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. $20 - Rack of Ribs $35 - Boston Butt

DINNER WITH FRIENDS Dinner with Friends groups are forming. These short-term dinner groups are a wonderful opportunity to connect with others with whom you may not often cross paths. The kickoff for Dinner with Friends is Sunday, February 3 at 12:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Please call the church office to sign up.

FURMAN SINGERS IN CONCERT AT FBC The Furman Singers will present a concert in the Sanctuary on March 5 at 7 p.m. Two of our members, Mary Jo McCormick and William Douglas, are members of this acclaimed ensemble. We will need volunteers to house students following the concert. Students would spend the night in your home and you are asked to feed them breakfast and bring them back to the church the next morning so that they can continue their tour. If you can help with housing, please contact Laurie Douglas at douglas6253@comcast.net.

GLOBAL MISSIONS BREAKFAST Sunday, February 10 at 8:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Our guest is Dianne McNary, a missionary from Slovakia with Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

First Baptist Church, 100 East Fourth Avenue, Rome, GA 30161 Phone: 706.291.6850 Website: www.fbcrome.org

WELCOME CHURCH CALENDAR WELCOME

First Baptist Church

Rome, Georgia

January 27, 2019 11:00 a.m.

To help maintain a spirit of worship, please silence phones. We welcome a larger congrega-tion through Comcast Channel 44 and through the livestream over the church website.

Chiming of the Hour

REVELATION (Isaiah 6:1-2)

Prelude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Choir “Awake the Harp, Awake the String”...arr. Carolyn Hamlin

God is in His holy temple. Come into His courts with praise! Every heart and soul awaken, behold, the wonder of His name!

We shall magnify Your mighty name, whose gifts of yesterday brought us joy! We rise and greet this day with gladness. In all that is to be, we rejoice!

Awake the harp! Awake the string! O magnify His holy name! Bless the Lord! People rise and swell the throng!

©1997 Hal Leonard Corporation CCLI1416589

Introduction to Together, We Worship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keith A. Reaves

ADORATION (Isaiah 6:3-4)

*Hymn of Praise No. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NICAEA

“Holy, Holy, Holy” Together We Share Testimony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betty Holland

Together We...Worship Leadership Team Vice Chair

Response... “Together, We…”...Dan Damon/Keith Reaves

A Covenant of Dedication for Emmy Lou Ethridge

and her parents, Ty and Mary Ethridge

Life Verse: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. —Proverbs 3:5-6

Litany of Dedication Pastor: Lord, you have blessed Mary and Ty with the gift of children. Today, we welcome Emmy Lou in the same spirit that You welcome us, Your children. We give thanks for all of our children and the joy they bring to our families. Parents: We thank you, Lord, for the gift of Emmy Lou. Pastor: I pray that you will draw upon all the resources of faith, love, and discipline to aid her on her journey through life. Life is a gift of God that is meant to be lived in an attitude of praise. Do you promise to raise her in an environment of faith and love? Parents: We do. Pastor: Will you as family members freely give of yourselves to Emmy Lou, nurturing her and loving her in the special ways that only you can supply? Family: We will. Pastor: Will this congregation recognize Emmy Lou as a gift from God? Will you pray for her as she grows in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and people? Will you pray for her parents, extended family and new church family as they surround Emmy Lou with the same love and grace that surrounds her today? People: We will.

Congregational Prayer: O God, we give you joyful thanks and praise for the beautiful gift of Emmy Lou’s life. Bring her by grace to Your baptism, that Christ may dwell in her heart through faith. Give power to Emmy Lou and to us, that we may grasp the breadth and length, the height and depth, of Christ’s love. Enable us to know this love through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

CONFESSION (Isaiah 6:5)

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Invitation to Confession. . . Sanctuary Choir

“The Lord Is in His Holy Temple”...George R. Root

The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him. —Habbakuk 2:20

EXPIATION (Isaiah 6:6-7)

Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

PROCLAMATION (Isaiah 6:8a)

Hymn of Worship No. 298 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ABBOT’S LEIGH

“God Is Here” Morning Prayer (with The Lord’s Prayer). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Uldrick

Our Father, who art in heaven hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Musical Offering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Choir

“My Eternal King”...Jane Marshall My God, I love Thee; not because I hope for heaven thereby,

Nor yet because who love Thee not must die eternally. Thou, O my Jesus, Thou didst me upon the cross embrace;

For me didst bear the nails and spear, and manifold disgrace.

Why, O blessed Jesus Christ should I not love Thee well? Not for the hope of winning heaven, nor of escaping hell. Not with the hope of gaining aught, nor seeking a reward,

But as Thyself hast loved me, O everlasting Lord!

E’en so I love Thee, and will love, and in Thy praise will sing, Solely because Thou art my God, and my eternal King!

Sermon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Matt DuVall

“Together, We Worship”

DEDICATION (Isaiah 6:8b)

*Hymn of Response No. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JUDSON “Worthy of Worship”

A Call to Worship (from the Together, We Plan)

God deserves our best. We worship to glorify God, experience the Living Christ, and respond to the Holy Sprit. Amen. Offertory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill

“Psalm 84”….Stephen Burtonwood Meditation Text: How will you prepare for and experience worship differently each week now that you are familiar with Revelation, Adoration, Confession, Expiation, Proclamation, Dedication and Commission? The Work of the Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristen Pope

Welcome to New Members of the Church Family

COMMISSION (Isaiah 6:9a) *Pastoral Blessing and Passing of the Peace *Commissioning Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“Together, We Worship” Together we worship, united by love, we strengthen our faith by Your Word and in song. Together, we worship in spirit and truth, then go to the world, Jesus’s love to make known.

*Postlude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill

“Immortal, Invisible”...arr. Marilyn Thompson

Family Worship This is the last Sunday of the month. The last Sunday is designated as a “Family Worship” day and all children sit with their families. Children’s Worship will return next Sunday. Child care is available during worship for all children younger than kindergarten. Joining First Baptist We receive new members in several ways. Those who have never publicly acknowledged Christ as Lord join by public profession of faith. Baptism is scheduled for a later date. Members of other Baptist congregations may transfer their membership to our congregation. We handle the details of contacting your current church. Members of other Christian faith traditions are invited to join by “statement of faith.” Because other traditions vary in belief and practice, those joining by statement of faith are invited to speak with a minister before joining so that they might answer questions. Recording All services are recorded and may be viewed on our website. If you would like a video or audio copy of today’s service, please call the office. Safety Safe zones for severe weather are in preschool hallways for children and the Fellowship Hall for the congregation. If there is a need to evacuate the building, parents should pick up children at the bus parking lot on the far side of First Presbyterian Church. Prayer Concerns (Please place in offering plate or hand to an usher or minister.) ________________________________ ________________________________

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Matt DuVall, Pastor

Keith A. Reaves Senior Associate/Minister of Worship

Tamara Tillman Smathers Minister of Education/Administration

John H. Uldrick Minister to Students and Missions

Kristen Pope, Minister of Faith Development

Gwen Stephens, Ministry Assistant

Beverly Harris, Pianist Joan Hill, Organist

A SERVICE OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP FOR YOUR INFORMATION