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Central Baptist is open for in-person worship but will continue to live-stream the service through the embedded video.
Fully vaccinated people may attend without masks. Unvaccinated worshippers, including all children between 2 and 12, must be masked.
Weather permitting we will be worshipping outdoors, in this call all people may be unmasked but we continue to require social distancing.
Order of Worship
Prelude
Welcome
Announcements
Call to Worship
We will give thanks to you, O LORD,
with our whole heart; we will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
We will be glad and exult in you;
we will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
—from Psalm 9:1-2, NRSV
Worship Song, #63 "All Creatures of Our God And King"
Verse 1
All creatures of our God and King
Lift up your voice and with us sing
Hallelujah hallelujah
Thou burning sun with golden beam
Thou silver moon with softer gleam
O praise Him O praise Him
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Verse 2
Thou rushing wind that art so strong
Ye clouds that sail in heaven along
O praise Him hallelujah
Thou rising morn in praise rejoice
Ye lights of evening find a voice
O praise Him O praise Him
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Verse 3
Thou flowing water pure and clear
Make music for thy Lord to hear
Hallelujah hallelujah
Thou fire so masterful and bright
That givest man both warmth and light
O praise Him O praise Him
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Verse 4
And all ye men of tender heart
Forgiving others take your part
O sing ye hallelujah
Ye who long pain and sorrow bear
Praise God and on Him cast your care
O praise Him O praise Him
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Verse 5
Let all things their Creator bless
And worship Him in humbleness
O praise Him hallelujah
Praise praise the Father praise the Son
And praise the Spirit three in One
O praise Him O praise Him
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
St. Francis of Assisi | Trammell Starks | William Henry Draper
© Words: Public Domain
Music: Boisseau Music Publishing (Admin. by Pamplin Publishing Corp.)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
Opening Prayer
Passing the Peace (Internet Edition)
Old Testament reading -Genesis 1: 1-3
Prayer Time
New Testament reading - 1 John 1: 1-5
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Gospel Reading - John 1:1-14
Meditation, “The Beginning”
Worship Song, “Sometimes By Step"
Verse 1
Sometimes the night is beautiful
Sometimes the sky was so far away
Sometimes it seemed to stoop
So close you could touch it
But your heart would break
Sometimes the morning came too soon
Sometimes the day could be so hard
There was so much work left to do
But so much you'd already done
Chorus
Oh God You are my God
And I will ever praise You
Oh God You are my God
And I will ever praise You
And I will seek You in the morning
And I will learn to walk in Your ways
And step by step You'll lead me
And I will follow You all of my days
Verse 2
Sometimes I think of Abraham
How one star he saw had been lit for me (him)
He was a stranger in this land
And I am that no less than he
And on this (the) road to righteousness
Sometimes the climb can be so steep
I may falter in my steps
And never beyond Your reach
Ending
And I will follow You all of my days
And I will follow You all of my days
And step by step You'll lead me
And I will follow You all of my days
David (Beaker) Strasser | Rich Mullins
© 1992 Kid Brothers Of St. Frank Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com
CCLI License # 468823
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.
Afghan Refugee Support
Covenant Presbyterian Church will be helping First Presbyterian Church of Bordentown with their aid to Afghan refugees at Maguire Air Force Base. You can help by purchasing needed items from the list and bringing them to Covenant Presbyterian and their Deacons will take them to Bordentwon through Sunday, September 26. You can also Make a Financial Donation online or writing a check to "First Presbyterian Church-Bordentown" entering "Afghan Refugees" in the memo line, and mailing it to 435 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, NJ 08505-2004. They will use 100% of every donation to purchase items from the list provided by the Joint Base.
Click "Give Now" button in the upper, right-hand corner of the home page and scroll down to "Afghan Refugee Fund."
Volunteer Chaplain Aides
Volunteer Chaplain Aides are needed throughout the Virtualize Health System in Burlington and Camden Counties. There are openings for trained lay visitors every day of the week. Following a training and orientation process, an Aide may donate two to four hours of each week to visit patients by phone, offering them compassion and spiritual comfort. Once Visitation is available again in our hospitals, these same volunteers would be welcome to visit out patients in the hospital after some additional training.
To find out if volunteering is for you, please call or email for an information package with details of the training and the process to become a volunteer at any of our facilities.
For more information in regards to volunteering at Virtua Burlington, Virtua Marlton, Virtua Mr. Holly, and Virtua Voorhees please contact Chaplain Marge McGinley, at 609. 914. 6365. or send an email to mmcginley@virtua.org
American Baptist Churches of New Jersey - Annual Session 2021
September 27 - October 7
The 2021 Annual Session’s theme is Kindness: Choose - Cultivate - Practice is an opportunity for clergy, pastors, church leaders, and congregation members to strengthen the ministries of our congregations by gathering, learning, and growing together.
Due to the uncertainties that the pandemic has created, ABCNJ believes the kind thing to do is to offer our Annual Session online one more year. There will still be many opportunity to learn through webinars, celebrate ministries throughout the region, and come together for a virtual Saturday morning worship service.
Registration of $40 includes the cost for all Annual Session webinars, Saturday events, and a copy of In Defense of Kindness, a book by this year’s keynote speaker.
The annual 2021 session’s keynote speakers will include: Rev. Dr. Bruce Reyes-Chow In defense of Kindness, Rev. Dr. Mia Chang Cultivate Kindness, Rev. Joe Gratzel Choose Kindness, Rev. Dr. Kadia Edwards Practice Kindness. For more information on these webinars and for registration, click the button above.