Welcome!
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
Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.
—Psalm 95:6-7, NIV
Worship Song, "Open The Eyes of My Heart"
Chorus
Open the eyes of my heart Lord
Open the eyes of my heart
I want to see You
I want to see You
Verse
To see You high and lifted up
Shining in the light of Your glory
Pour out Your power and love
As we sing holy holy holy
Bridge
Holy holy holy
Holy holy holy
Holy holy holy
I want to see You
Paul Baloche
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Opening Prayer
Passing the Peace (Internet Edition)
Old Testament reading - Leviticus 23:27-32
Prayer Time
New Testament reading - 1 John 2:3-11
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Gospel Reading - John 10:11-18
Meditation, “A People Who Love”
Worship Song, #415 "We Are Called to Be God’s People"
Verse 1
We are called to be God's people
Showing by our lives His grace
One in heart and one in spirit
Sign of hope for all the race
Let us show how He has changed us
And remade us as His own
Let us share our life together
As we shall around His throne
Verse 2
We are called to be God's servants
Working in His world today
Taking His own task upon us
All His sacred words obey
Let us rise then to His summons
Dedicate to Him our all
That we may be faithful servants
Quick to answer now His call
Verse 3
We are called to be God's prophets
Speaking for the truth and right
Standing firm for godly justice
Bringing evil into light
Let us seek the courage needed
Our high calling to fulfill
That we all may know the blessing
Of the doing of God's will
Thomas A. Jackson
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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.
Operation Christmas Child Special Event
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 6:00PM
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 822 CHURCH ST MT LAUREL, NJ. 08065
How do you explain what a gift is to someone who’s never received one? It’s all too common in many parts of the world for parents to only be able to afford basic necessities. It was that way for Justin. He Grew up in a loving Christian family in South Asia, but they struggled to make ends meet. He had never opened a gift until age 13 when he received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox. Come find out how a gift-filled shoebox helped a child who had never received a gift grasp that Jesus is God’s greatest gift.
New life Center Foundation Annul Report
Full report located in Memorial Hall—Kit Ripley’s Update below
Over the Last eighteen months Thailand was able to contain the pandemic remarkably well for many months thanks to cooperation with public health guidelines. International travel was restricted and the citizens wore masks and worked from home whenever possible. However, within the last few months, a fresh outbreak of the delta variant has begun to spread throughout the country, and they are now averaging 20,000 COVID cases per day with over 9,000 fatalities.
At the New Life Center, Students are engaged in Virtual Schooling this year and a schedule of supportive activities have been organized; however, NLCF has reluctantly been forced to suspend activities that normally take place off-site, such as day trips, swimming, hiking, visiting family in villages, anti-trafficking campaigns, and community based programing.
Kit had returned to the US in March of 2020 and was unable to return for eleven months. The NLCF staff and Rev. Jeni Pedzinski kept things running smoothly on site during this time. The NLCF Annual Report details the many ways our prayerful partnership makes a tangible difference in the lives of the NLCF residents and staff. The work of the NLCF is needed now more than ever as this time of economic desperation allows abuse and exploration to prosper. Kit would like to thank us for our continued commitment and partnership through prayers, friendship, and financial support.
Choir Rehearsal Resumes
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:30 PM.
Rehearsal is in-person and open to all who would like to come and sing whether or not you can be with us on Sundays. We will be preparing anthems to use as our Virtual Choir songs as well as anthems to sing live on a specific Sunday.
Masks will be needed for rehearsals, some singer's masks have been purchased for you. It's been LONG time and I'm looking forward to singing with you!
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 Virtua 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 outpatients 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 regard 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.