LAST WEEK’S CHURCH RECORD Worship Attendance ……………………………………………………. 34 Worship Attendance (via Facebook views) ………………... 497 Weekly Budget Requirement …………………………. $15,608.00 Budget Gifts ………………………..…….…..…….…..…… $ 11,389.00 YTD Budget Requirements …………….....…………. $764,792.00 YTD Budget Receipts ……………………………….…… $704,651.32

THE FAITH JOURNEY Total Campaign Goal………………………………... $1,070,000.00 Gifts for Week 147…………………………………...….….. $1,965.00 Total Gifts to Date…………………………………..……..$718,444.98

OUR KNOWN SICK Zebulon Rehab: Eva Liles WakeMed: Ronald Fuller At Home: Thomas Speller

OUR CHURCH CALENDAR

TODAY 9:00am Sunday School 10:15am Morning Worship (via Facebook Live feed) MONDAY 9:00am-4:00pm Office Hours TUESDAY 9:00am-4:00pm Office Hours

WEDNESDAY 9:00am-4:00pm Office Hours 6:30pm Juniors Connections 7:30pm Youth Journeys THURSDAY 9:00am-1:00pm Office Hours FRIDAY 9:00am-4:00pm Office Hours SATURDAY 10:40am Youth depart for Tar Tubing

OUR CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY Our Christian sympathy is extended to Dan Carter in the death of his

brother. Our Christian sympathy is extended to James Averette in the death of his

brother.

MEMBERS TO REMEMBER: At Home: Dot Brown

Coventry House: Dolores Chalk Remember these persons this week with your

prayers, cards, contacts or visits!

Zebulon Baptist Church

Zebulon, North Carolina

L. Jack Glasgow, Jr., Senior Pastor Barbara D. Glasgow, Minister of Music and Senior Adults

Shannon Speller, Minister of Children, Outreach and Missions Lynn McLaughlin, Minister of Spiritual Formation

Lauren Glasgow, Minister of Youth Linda Perry, Accompanist

Cindy Carver, Assistant Accompanist June Sanders, Office Administrator

Candace Heath, Office Assistant Visit our website at myzbc.org

Our Welcome In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we welcome you to a place in the sanctuary. May your coming and going be attended with richest blessing.

The Lord’s Day September 13, 2020 The Sanctuary Ten-Fifteen a.m.

A HOLY CALLING Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity. - 2 Timothy 1:8-9

PRELUDE — “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”………………………………….. arr. Schrader WELCOME TO WORSHIPERS HYMN OF GATHERING — “The Master Has Called Us” ……….. Sarah Doudney The Master has come, and He calls us to follow the track of the footprints He leaves on our way; Far over the mountain and through the deep hollow, the path leads us on to the mansions of day: The Master has called us, the children who fear Him, who march ‘neath Christ’s banner, His own little band; We love Him and seek Him, we long to be near Him, and rest in the light of His beautiful land.

The Master has called us; the road may be dreary, and dangers and sorrows are strewn on the track; But God’s Holy Spirit shall comfort the weary; we follow the Savior and cannot turn back; The Master has called us: though doubt and temptation may compass our journey, we cheerfully sing: “press onward, look upward,” thru much tribulation; The children of Zion must follow their King.

The Master has called us, in life’s early morning, with spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, to case in our lot with the people of God: The Master has called us, His sons and His daughters, we please for His blessing and trust in His love; And thru the green pastures, beside the still waters, He’ll lead us at last to His kingdom above. A RESPONSIVE MEDITATION OF THE LORD’S PRAYER ... Rev. Walter R. Bowie Leader: Our Father, who art in Heaven, People: Help us to believe this day that there is power to lift me up which is stronger than all things that hold us down. Leader: Hallowed be they Name, People: Help us to be sensitive to what is beautiful, and responsive to what is good, so that day by day we may grow more sure of the Holiness of life in which we want to trust. Leader: Thy kingdom come,

YOUTH NEWS

JOURNEYS — This Wednesday night we will continue our Fruits Found in Frozen 2 film study. This week we will be focusing on the Fruits of the Spirit, love and kind-ness, by examining the song, “Some Things Never Change.” We will meet from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Blue Room for light refreshments, fun, and Bible Study. TUBING THE TAR — Youth will be tubing the Tar River Saturday, September 19, and will meet at the church to leave at 10:40 a.m. Please wear clothes and shoes that you would be comfortable getting wet. Sign up has concluded. On Saturday, bring $20 for the ticket to tube, safety waiver, and a change of clothes. You may pick up a blank waiver with Lauren to complete and bring for the outing or go to http://bit.ly/tubingformzbcy. PASSPORT MISSIONS 2021 — The deadline for signing up for Passport is quickly approaching. We will be going to Passport June 28-July 3, 2021 at Furman Universi-ty in Greenville, South Carolina. Please email Lauren at lauren.glasgow@myzbc.org no later than September 28 with the name, birthdate, and grade completed for all youth planning to attend Passport Missions in the sum-mer of 2021 to secure your spot. Deposits will not be due until the last week in Jan-uary 2021. If you have any questions, please see Lauren. LIVING FAITH WEEKEND TO FORT CASWELL — This year the Living Faith Weekend will be going on the road to Fort Caswell October 9-11. Sign up will conclude Sep-tember 20. To secure your spot, please sign up at http://bit.ly/zbcysignup and turn in $175 to the church office. This will include your lodging, meals at the cabin, t-shirt, and free time activities. Please see Lauren with any questions.

THE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT is placed in the sanctuary today by Johnny and Beverly Clark in honor of our son, Peyton Thomas Clark, whose birthday was September 9 and in memory of our daughter, Whitney Larned Clark, whose birthday was September 6. THE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT is placed in the sanctuary today by Trey and Melody Hocutt in honor of their daughter, Elizabeth Robertson, who will be celebrating her birthday on September 17. “Words cannot adequately express how proud we are of you — as a daughter, wife, mother, deacon, and health care professional.”

CHURCH CONFERENCE — SEPTEMBER 27 We will have a Church Conference at 6:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary on Sunday evening, September 27. We will be voting on the Nominating Committee Report and the Ministry Budget as well as hear other reports and catch up on the business of the church through the past six months of COVID-19.

RECEPTION TO HONOR LYNN McLAUGHLIN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

4:00 to 6:00 P.M. IN THE FELLOWSHIP HALL

SPIRITUAL FORMATION HIGHLIGHTS Prayer Team — Each Sunday a different member of ZBC spends time praying for the service and for the expressed prayer requests of the church. Since we are still meeting via live stream, the prayer time can be accomplished at home. Please let Lynn McLaughlin and Debbie Ladd know if you would like to be a part of this team. Tuesday Morning Ladies Bible Study — The Ladies Bible Study will begin on Tues-day, September 21 at 11:00 a.m. We will be studying the book INSPIRED (Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again) by Rachel Held Evans. The paperback book is listed on Amazon for $15.89 (Kindle $4.99). A limited number of paperbacks will be on sale in the church office for $15.00. There are also a few copies available in the church library that can be borrowed (for free). Join us for this awesome study, led by Jackie Strickland.

OUR WORSHIP GUESTS IN THE SANCTUARY This morning we welcome our Coed IV as our guests in the Sanctuary. They be-gan the morning with Sunday School in the Fellowship Hall. Next week we begin our Week A/Week B schedule so that everyone may attend worship and Sunday School on an every other week basis. Since May we have enjoyed inviting individual classes to join us for worship in the Sanctuary while the rest of the church watches via live stream.

JUNIORS AND PARENTS LUNCH AFTER CHURCH

After church on September 27, the Juniors and their parents (siblings too) will enjoy lunch together in the Fellowship Hall. Please let Shannon know how many plan to attend so we will have enough food for everyone!! We will enjoy lunch and hear some of the exciting plans for Juniors in the year to come.

SENIOR ADULT SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY “A TASTE OF ITALY”

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 SIGN UP FOR THE NOON LUNCH OR 5:30 P.M. SUPPER

BY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 CONTACT BARBARA GLASGOW OR THE CHURCH OFFICE

WEDNESDAY NIGHT PROGRAMS RESUME WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

CHOIRS, MISSION GROUPS, JUNIORS, ADULT BIBLE STUDY AND HAND-BELLS

6:30—7:30 P.M. YOUTH, 7:30 P.M., SANCTUARY CHOIR, 7:45 P.M.

MEALS WILL RESUME LATER BEGINNING OCTOBER 14

People: Help us to be quick to see, and ready to encourage, whatever brings the better meaning of God into that which otherwise might be common ground of the uninspired day. Leader: Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven, People: Help us to believe that the ideals of the spirit are not a far- off dream, but a power to command our loyalty and direct our lives here on our real earth. Leader: Give us this day our daily bread, People: Open the way for us to earn an honest living without anxiety, but let us never forget the needs of others, and make us want only that benefit for ourselves which will also be their gain. Leader: And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. People: Make us patient and sympathetic with the shortcomings of others, especially of those we love; and keep us sternly watchful only of our own. Let us never grow hard with the unconscious cruelty of those who measure themselves by mean standards and so think they have excelled. Keep our eyes lifted to the highest; so that we may be humbled; and seeing the failures of others be forgiving, because we know how much there is of which we need to be forgiven. Leader: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, People: Let us not go carelessly this day within the reach of any evil we cannot resist; but, if in the path of duty we must go where temptation is, give us the strength of spirit to meet it without fear. Leader: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. People: And so in my heart may I carry the knowledge that Thy great- ness is above me and around me, and that Thy grace through Jesus Christ, my Master is sufficient for all my needs. Unison: May it be so, Lord! Amen! CHORUS — “Lord I Want to be a Christian” … 18th Century African American Spiritual Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in my heart. In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be a Christian in my heart, in my heart. THE EXCHANGE OF CHRIST’S PEACE THE OFFERTORY MOMENT CHILDREN’S SERMON PASTORAL PRAYER SPECIAL MUSIC — “There Is Nothing”………………………………………………... Story

Sheri Hester, Soloist SCRIPTURE READING …………………………………. Jeremiah 7:1-11; Luke 14:25-34 SERMON — “What I Didn’t Know About Being a Christian Before I Became One”

COMMITMENT HYMN — “Though I May Speak With Bravest Fire”………. Hal Hopson Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire, and have not love; my words are vain; as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess, but not be giv’n by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin.

Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole. Let inward love guide every deed; by this we worship, and are freed. CLOSING WORDS BENEDICTION CHORAL BENEDICTION — “Lord I Want to be a Christian” … 18th Century African American Spiritual Lord, I want to be more loving in my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart, in my heart. In my heart, in my heart, Lord, I want to be like Jesus in my heart, in my heart. POSTLUDE— “Go Forth in Peace”.................................................... Birchwood CCL# 1437762 SL# 20535958

REMINDERS FOR MAKING OUR PLAN WORK 1. Be in prayer for our church. Pray that we will be safe in our gathering. 2. Stay home if you are ill, if you have symptoms of illness, or if your exposure to

COVID-19 indicates a time of quarantine. 3. While we do love to see everyone here each week, please do not come to activi-

ties if you do not feel comfortable doing so. We will continue live streaming our worship, some classes are zooming lessons, and our pastoral staff is always a phone call or other form of contact away. You can stay connected to ZBC in ways other than physical attendance.

4. Respect the changes in worship from our past routine—social distancing, wear-ing masks, offering plates on stand, bulletins on stands, making the exchange of peace without touch, not standing for hymns, singing loudly or using hymnals, sanitation stations and other changes. These changes have been made using the best guidance for help persons to reengage in public gatherings in a safe and responsible manner.

5. Wear your masks out of respectful concern for others. When we are passing one another on Sundays, we need to be safe and to help one another feel safe. When you are in place and confident you are more than six feet from others, you may drop the mask.

6. There is ample room for social distancing in the Sanctuary with our new plan that divides us into fourths. Choose your seats without someone directly in front of or behind you and leave six feet between you and your family and the next per-sons or family on the pew. There will actually be signs on the pews indicating whether or not that pew is for the 9:00 a.m. or 10:15 a.m. service. This way you will not be sitting in a place that was used in the earlier service.

COMING BACK TO CHURCH The Executive Committee adopted a plan to have us come back to Sunday School and worship on an every other week basis beginning Sunday, September 20. Sunday School Classes have been assigned to Week A or Week B. Each week half of the classes will worship first and then enjoy Sunday School, while the other half of the classes begin with Sunday School and then worship. By coming back every other week and using this dual session approach each week, we will be dividing our worship crowd into fourths so that we can practice social distancing. Next Sunday will be a Week A Sunday. Here is the schedule and room assignments: 9:00 a.m. Worship: Coed I, Coed IV, Women’s IV, Men’s III 9:00 a.m. Sunday School: Women’s III (Fellowship Hall) Men’s II (D8) 10:15 a.m. Worship: Women’s III, Men’s II 10:15 a.m. Sunday School: Coed I (Blue Room) Coed IV (Fellowship Hall) Women’s IV (B9) Men’s III (D6) Week B will be on campus the following week on Sunday, September 27. Their schedule and room assignments are: 9:00 a.m. Worship: Men’s I, Women’s I, Women’s II, Juniors and K-3 whose parents are in worship 9:00 a.m. Sunday School: Coed II (Fellowship Hall) Coed III (D6) Youth — Blue Room Juniors and K-3 whose parents are in Sunday School (Usual classrooms) All Nursery and Preschool (Usual Classrooms) 10:15 a.m. Worship: Coed II, Coed III, Youth, Juniors and K-3 whose parents are in worship Volunteer staffed nursery for all Nursery and Preschool 10:15 a.m. Sunday School: Men’s I (Fellowship Hall) Women’s I (D8) Women’s II (B9) Juniors and K-3 whose parents are in Sunday School Members and guests who are not in a Sunday School class are asked to pick ei-ther Week A or Week B and pick either the 9:00 a.m. or 10:15 a.m. time for worship and attend that time every other week. If you want to be at church with persons in your general age range, older adults and college age students are in Week A; younger and middle adults and those with youth and children are in Week B.

SANCTUARY FLOWERS NEEDED Please contact Jackie Strickland or at 919-426-3327 if you are interested in placing flowers in the Sanctuary for any of the following dates:

October 11 (2); October 25 (1); November 8 (1); November 15 (1); November 29 (1)