The Worship of God
Providence Baptist Church of Hendersonville, NC
All Saints Sunday is a deep remembrance in which we encounter anew the most profound dimension of what it is to be the church. It reminds us of those for whom the battle is over, the victory won, and of our continuing pilgrimage toward God and the heavenly banquet. To give thanks to God for the lives and deaths is to recognize the common bond between the church on earth and the church triumphant in God’s love.November 7, 2021
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Making Waves of Welcome and Wonder!
Dr. Dwight A. Moody, Preacher/Consultant Rev. Marcy Mynatt, Worship Leader Ms. Katie Cillufo, Hymn Leader Mr. Michael Sebastian, Music Director Rev. Gail Coulter, Pastor Emerita
Prelude “I Am a Child of God” Randall/Pettit
Lighting the Christ Candle
Chiming the Silence
John Wesley said that All Saints Sunday should be a day of triumphant joy.
—Don Saliers
Please listen for the concluding chime
Call to Worship All Saints Liturgy Rev. Mynatt The saints who still live among us call our attention to God in unexpected ways and at unexpected times. They enable us to see faith and life in new ways. They help us find our way a little, not so much by pointing it out to us, as by the way they themselves walk in the world. And the great cloud of witnesses around us…The saints triumphant in glory–their witness from the past shows us the way to live in belief and hope and strength. So let us lay aside what hinders us and sin that entangles us; and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Sisters and brothers, saints of God, as we honor the saints who are now walking with us on this journey and as we bear witness to the great multitude that has gone before us, we remember them as those whose legacy teaches us to hold fast to our faith. Let us stand together during this time of remembrance as memorial candles are lit for those among us who have died in the last two years. Then let us join our hearts in a prayer of thanksgiving for those we have called “saints”—whose lives have pointed us toward God.Lighting Memorial Candles Rev. Coulter
Dr. Kelvin Leroy Bradley Bobby Calvin Brown Charles Wilbur Ivins Rev. John William Laney Patricia (Pat) Allen Justus Reese Worshipers may come forward and light candles in honor of saints who have blessed their lives. Invocation and Thanksgiving for Saints in our Lives Rev. Mynatt Lord’s Prayer Hymn of Praise All You Works of God, Bless the Lord LINSTEAD All you works of God, bless the Lord! All you angels, now bless the Lord; come, you heavens and powers that be, praise the Lord and His majesty: Raise your voices high, praise and magnify, all you works of God, bless the Lord! Hills and mountains, now sing His worth, all you green things that grow on the earth, seas and rivers, you springs and wells, beasts and cattle, you birds and whales: Raise your voices high, praise and magnify, all you works of God, bless the Lord! Come humanity, sing along, sing, you people of God, a song, all His servants, your Lord now bless, join you spirits and souls at rest: Raise your voices high, praise and magnify, all you works of God, bless the Lord!The Proclamation of the Gospel
Scripture Psalm 127 Dr. Moody Sermon Loving Our Children Dr. MoodyOur Response
Time of Reflection Hear that this is an invitation to trust our lives to God and not be anxious about our lives, but pursue God’s claim on our lives and strive to embody God’s will. –J. Clinton McCann, Jr.
The Lord’s Supper Dr. Moody and Rev. Mynatt
Communion Music Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying CHILDREN PRAYING Call to Generosity Rev. Mynatt May our trust led us to obedience, and our obedience to giving of our resources, but mainly of all the “stuff” and will of our lives. May our gifts, given to the glory of God, become hope and light for this world. –Peggy Haymes Prayer of Dedication and Prayers of the People Rev. Mynatt Hymn of Going Forth Would You Bless Our Homes and Families NETTLETON Would You bless our homes and families, source of life who calls us here; in our world of stress and tension teach us love that conquers fear. Help us learn to love each other with a love, that constant stays; teach us when we face our troubles, love’s expressed in many ways. From the homes in which we’re nurtured, with the love that shapes us there, teach us, God, to claim as family every one whose life we share. And through all that life may offer, may we in Your love remain; may the love we share in families be alive to praise Your name. Let us reach beyond the boundaries of our daily thought and care ‘til the family You have chosen spills its love out everywhere. Help us learn to love each other with a love that constant stays; teach us when we face our troubles, love’s expressed in many ways. Benediction Dr. Moody Postlude God Bless the Child Herzog/HolidayDepart to Serve
Loving God, Hear our Prayers:- URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: First Baptist Church of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Our friends at the Cuban Gethsemane church
- Leena Lavanya, Serve Trust Ministries in India
- Leena’s mother, Viveka, passed away pray for her and her family
- Kathy Neall, glioblastoma, and her husband, friends of Glenda Tapper and Phillip Allen
- John and Alice Rapp as they go to the Cleveland Clinic for a diagnostic Clinic
- CBF Global Missions for those who do the work we cannot do
- Jessica Bradley’s brother, Johnsie
- Ryan Maynard, nephew of Ruth Garrison
- Brian Corn, Aaron Emory and Theo MacKey all given eviction notices, please pray they find new housing
- Family of Linnea Mesaric who died after battle with Covid-19, former sister-in-law of Glenda Tapper
- Heating for refugee houses in Bosnia work led by the Pujas
