Welcome!
Central Baptist is worshiping outdoors this Summer! Bring a beach chair or blanket and hang out on our back lawn as we share the story of Jesus.
Social distancing and masks are required. If the weather doesn’t cooperate we will move indoors, social distance, and music will be instrumental only.
Order of Worship
Prelude
Welcome
Announcements
Call to Worship
We come to worship God in our need,
bringing with us the needs of the world.
We come to God, who comes to us in Jesus,
and who knows by experience what human life is like.
We come with our faith and with our doubts,
we come with our hopes and with our fears.
We come as we are because it is God who invites us to come,
and God has promised never to turn us away.
Hymn, “All People That On Earth Do Dwell“
Verse 1
All people that on earth do dwell
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice
Him serve with fear His praise forth tell
Come ye before Him and rejoice
Verse 2
The Lord ye know is God indeed
Without our aid He did us make
We are His flock He doth us feed
And for His sheep He doth us take
Verse 3
O enter then His gates with praise
Approach with joy His courts unto
Praise laud and bless His name always
For it is seemly so to do
Verse 4
For why the Lord our God is good
His mercy is forever sure
His truth at all times firmly stood
And shall from age to age endure
Verse 5
To Father Son and Holy Ghost
The God whom heaven and earth adore
From earth and from the angel host
Be praise and glory evermore
Roger Jones | William Kethe © Words: Public Domain
Music: 1981 Christian Music Ministries (Admin. by Sovereign Music UK)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
Opening Prayer and Lord’s Prayer (spoken)
Passing the Peace (Social Distance Edition)
Prayer Time
Gospel Reading: Revelation 20:11-21:5
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Meditation, “Hope”
Hymn, “Joy To The World!”
Verse 1
Joy to the world the Lord is come
Let earth receive her King
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room
And heav'n and nature sing
And heav'n and nature sing
And heav'n and heav'n and nature sing
Verse 2
Joy to the earth the Savior reigns
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat repeat the sounding joy
Verse 3
No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse is found
Far as far as the curse is found
Verse 4
He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders wonders of His love
George Frideric Handel | Isaac Watts
© Words: Public Domain
Music: Public Domain
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
Communion
Benediction
September Benevolence - Eastern University
Our mission focus for September is Eastern University. Many in our church community have a direct connection to the university and we have been blessed in the past with participation of students and faculty in our worship services. Your donation helps to keep tuition costs low and provide services for the students.
Eastern University is a nationally-ranked Christian university that integrates faith, reason and justice for its 3,100 students. Located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the university offers a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, seminary, professional, and international programs. Eastern is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and has an interdenominational Christian student body, faculty and administration.
The mission focus for August is Riverview Estates, “a South Jersey faith-based assisted living and skilled nursing care community based in Riverton, NJ”. COVID-19 is particularly serious for the elderly, such as the residents at Riverview. Maintaining the health and safety of the residents and staff is challenging and requires additional resources and creativity to balance the needs of the residents while keeping this highly contagious virus away.
Riverview Estates opened in 1954 and has been providing skilled nursing, assisted living, and rehabilitation services for close to 70 years. The organization has adapted to many changes over these years and is now called upon to adapt to this novel coronavirus. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Click here to donate directly to Riverview.
Pastor’s Study Group—Meditative Fiction
Pastor Wes will be leading a five week study group on Jesus’ Beatitudes, beginning in September. For more information, follow this link.
Wellness Hour
The last few months have hit the spiritual lives of many people rather hard. The loss of rhythm, physical presence of the community, and general familiarity have taken their toll. This is why Larry Merrill came up with the idea for “Wellness Hour.” We need to be with other people.
Drop in for a time of connection, prayer, and an occasional devotion. Mitigation guidance will be in effect and masks are required. Stay for the hour, or just pop in for a moment to be reminded of our incarnational connection with each other.
The first gathering will be Saturday, September 19, 2020, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon. More dates can be found on Central Baptist’s web page.