The Church in Worship

Sunday, January 3, 2016

“In Praise of God” Organ

Welcome to our Guests Pastor

No. 327 “Holy Spirit Thou Art Welcome” No. 265 “Hallelujah! Praise the Lamb”

Invocation Pastor

SINGING HIS PRAISES No. 390 “Bind Us Together”

No. 588 “Sanctuary”

Offertory Prayer Usher

Musical Offerings

“Amazing Grace”

Jill Reding, Piano

“New Year” Pastor and People

No. 377 “I Will Serve Thee” with “Jesus, We Crown You With Praise”

Message: Ben Tinley

COMMITMENT No. 529 “Change My Heart, O God”

Benediction Pastor

“Make Me A Blessing” Organ

Special Called Business Meeting

NEW YEAR

Pastor:

What shall I ask for the coming year? What shall my watch word be?

What should thou do for me, dear Lord? What can I do for thee.

People:

Lord, I would ask for a holy year, spent in thy perfect will.

help me to walk in thy very steps; help me to please thee still.

Pastor:

Lord, I would ask for a trustful year, give me thy faith divine,

asking my full inheritance, making thy fullness mine!

People:

Lord, I would ask for a year of love: O let me love thee best!

Pastor:

Give me the love that faileth not beneath the hardest test. Lord,

I would ask for a year of prayer, teach me to walk with thee;

breath in my heart the Spirit’s prayer, pray thou thy prayer in me!

People:

Lord, I would ask for the dying world,

stretch forth thy mighty hand;

the truth proclaim, thy display this year in every land.

Pastor:

Lord, I would ask for a year of joy; thy peace, thy joy divine,

springing undimmed through all the days by thy days of shade or shine.

All:

Lord, I ask for a year of hope, looking for thee to come,

and hastening on that year of years that brings us Christ and Home.

2016

N New B Beginnings

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:17

Southside Baptist Church 709 Ninth Street SE Decatur, AL 35601

256-353-8814 www.southsidebaptist.net

Menu for Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Chicken Stew with 1/2 BBQ Sandwich and Lemon Icebox Pie

Call the church office for reservations or cancellations by 10:00 am Monday

No need to call if you have standing reservations Kitchen workers: Sandra Woods

and Helen Hill. $5.00 Adults and $3.50 Children—Take-outs $6.00

WOM Meeting WOM will meet Tuesday, January 5th at 10:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. We will con-tinue to collect warm socks through January. We will be mixing hot chocolate and assem-bling bags to distribute to the teachers in Decatur City Schools. Lunch will be chili and will be arranged. Please come and bring someone.

Special Choir Awards...Congratulations!! Sandra Clemons—2015 Sanctuary Choir Member Award

Charlie and Joyce Smith—2015 Sanctuary Choir Appreciation Member Award

Wednesday Night Activities Resume this week Awana will resume this Wednesday at 6:00 pm for our children and the Sanctuary Choir rehearsals will resume at 6:30 pm in the music suite. Our Wednesday night supper and prayer meeting will also resume. Don’t forget to be a part of these activities!

Deacon’s Meeting—Monday, January 7th at 7:00 pm

Lottie Moon Offering—$22,667.10 Thank you Southside for your generous support of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering!

We surpassed our goal of $15,000.00

Reminders….Don’t forget to pick up your 2016 offering envelopes on the front pew in

the sanctuary! Also, please pick up your Christmas cards from the Lottie Moon post office.

Ben and Abby Tinley

Ben Tinley The message will be brought this morning

by Ben Tinley, the prospective Minister of

Youth and Family Outreach. Ben is a na-

tive of Arab, Alabama and a graduate of

Auburn University. He is currently the stu-

dent pastor at Faith Baptist in Arlington,

Tennessee. He and his wife, Abby, are ex-

pecting their first child in February. Abby

is a math teacher at Arlington High School.

Following the service today we will vote

on extending a call to Ben to come to

Southside.