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Sunday, November 24 9:00 a.m. Scrap Iron Broadcast (WLAQ 1410) 9:15 a.m. Hands of Christ Christmas Committee - Dining Room 9:45 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Worship 5:00 p.m. Church Wide Thanksgiving Dinner and Service

Monday, November 25 9:00 a.m. Flower Committee Work Day

Tuesday, November 26 FBC Serves Community Kitchen 9:00 a.m. Flower Committee Work Day 3:00 p.m. Meals & More - First United Methodist Church

Wednesday, November 27 FBC Serves Community Kitchen Church Office Closes at Noon

Thursday, November 28 Church Office Closed - Thanksgiving Day

Friday, November 29 FBC Serves Community Kitchen Church Office Closed

The flowers in the Narthex are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Ralph Keith by Chris and Jennie Cook.

The flowers in the Sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of John and Eula Kirkland and David Kirkland by Mary and John Kirkland.

THANKSGIVING DINNER & SERVICE Join us at 5:00 p.m. for a Thanksgiving dinner in the Fellowship Hall and a worship service at 6:15 p.m. in the Sanctuary. Music will be provided by our younger children’s choirs.

COOL YULE REGISTRATION Cool Yule is Saturday, December 7 from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Register by Saturday, November 30 on the church website! Cost is $10 with a $20 family max. Pay by cash or check prior to or the day of the event. This event is for children birth to 6th grade. HANDS OF CHRIST CHRISTMAS - GIFT PURCHASE INFORMATION Names available today.

Deadline to deliver wrapped gifts to church office Tuesday, December 10th.

Volunteers needed for Hands of Christ Christmas Party on Saturday, December 14 from 7:45 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Sign up with Karen or John in church office.

Monetary donations needed so that we can provide food items for each family to have a traditional Christmas meal.

21ST ANNUAL CHRISTMAS AT FIRST BAPTIST Mark your calendars for this concert featuring our choirs, handbells and orchestra on Sunday, December 8 at 4 p.m. Guests are welcome!

SR. ADULT CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON Friday, December 13 at noon in the Fellowship Hall. Reservations due by Monday, December 9. Our meal will be catered by Ellen Keene and Barbara Triplitt. A Christmas program will follow. Cost is $10 and guests are welcome.

BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY Kicking off our FIRST Getting Ahead Class on Thursday, December 5th! We will have a group from Living Proof Recovery, Ruth & Naomi House, and the Davies Shelter. We need your help! Check your email for the three ways to help. Sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4dadad2da6fa7-getting.

First 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

November 24, 2019

First Baptist Church

Rome, Georgia

November 24, 2019 11:00 A.M.

To help maintain a spirit of worship in today’s service, please silence cell phones. Hearing assisted devices are available. Please see an usher for more information.

Chiming of the Hour Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Hill

“Fugue in E-Flat Major (ST. ANNE)” (Parts A and B) ...J. S. Bach (Please use this time to pray for yourself, for others, and for this service.)

Call to Worship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt DuVall

The world is filled with the glory of God, and we say, Thank you! Our tables are overflowing with food, and we say, Thank you! Our life is filled with love of family and friends, and we say, Thank you! We fill this house of God with our voices, saying, Thank you! May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable to you, O God, as we enter into this service of thanksgiving and praise. Amen *Hymn of Praise No. 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .KREMSER

“We Gather Together” Prayers of Confession Almighty God, we humbly ask you to make us like a tree planted by the water, that we may bring forth fruits of good living in due season. Forgive our past offenses, sanctify us now, and direct all that we should be in the future.

A Time for Personal Confession

Assurance of Forgiveness In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Glory to God! Amen. Special Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frances Fields

“Thanksgiving”...John Ness Beck

*Reading of Holy Scripture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Psalm 46

(The text may be found on page 559 of the pew Bible.) Tamara Tillman Smathers, reader

Reader: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God. *Gloria Patri Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Amen.

Family Worship Today is the last Sunday of the month. These days are designated as “Family Worship” days and all children sit with their families. Nursery care is available for children four and under. Children’s Worship will return next Sunday.

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

_______________________ As a part of tonight’s Thanksgiving service, we will have several times when we will share things that people have told us have made them thankful. Please take a moment to fill out this form and put it in the offering plate or give to a minister. I am thankful for: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Signature (optional)

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A SERVICE OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Hymn of Thanksgiving No. 371. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NUN DANKET

“Now Thank We All Our God” Morning Prayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Uldrick Musical Offering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Choir

“O Kindly Maker of the Land”...Keith A. Reaves

O Kindly Maker of the land, producing all things good for man, Behold the sterile sea give birth at Your command to fertile earth.

For what was low God raised on high, His arm drove back the sea with might. Then out of earth began to raise all growing things their silent praise.

Each verdant bough, each fruit and seed bespeaks itself a Godly deed. Let not our eyes and soul be blind: Here speaks a secret love divine.

We are the branches, Christ the Vine, Whom God the Father tends with care. May He not find our actions bare, but in Christ’s glory make us share.

Almighty Father, hear our cry, through Jesus Christ, our Lord Most High! Whom in the Spirit we adore, Who reigns with you forevermore.

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

“God In Our Midst”

*Hymn of Response No. 379. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASH GROVE “Let All Things Now Living”

*A Moravian Blessing (to be prayed in unison). . . . . . . . . . . .Kristen Pope, leader

Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be And bless these gifts bestowed by Thee. And bless our loved ones everywhere, And keep them in Your loving care. Amen. Offertory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill/Beverly Harris

“Come, Ye Thankful People, Come”… arr. Mark Hayes/Marvin Gaspard

Meditation Text: There are dozens of such moments every day. Moments when you stand—as it were—at a spiritual crossroads, with two ways lying before you. Such moments are typically called “moments of decision.” It does not matter what the frame or content of each particular decision is. It all devolves, in the end, into just two roads before you, every time. The one will lead to less gratitude, less kindness, less forgiveness, less honesty, or less love in the world. The other will lead to more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness, more honesty, or more love in the world. Your mission, each moment, is to seek to choose the later spiritual road, rather than the former, every time.

—Richard Bolles

The Work of the Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Pope Welcome to New Members of the Church Family *Pastoral Blessing and Passing of the Peace *The Doxology (Hymn 706) *Postlude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan Hill

“O God, Our Help in Ages Past”...arr. Charles Callahan