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[Silence] [Silence] I will proclaim your greatness, my God and King. I will thank you forever and ever.

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Every day I will thank you. I will praise you forever and ever. The Lord is great and must be highly praised. His greatness is beyond understanding.

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I will praise you forever and ever. [indistinct] Let's all turn to hymn number 15. Let us sing with the spirit, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."

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[music] ♪ A mighty fortress is our God ♪ ♪ A home of ever-flaming ♪ ♪ Our help, our heal, our help, our God ♪

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♪ On water we'll spring daily ♪ ♪ God save our ancient foe ♪ ♪ God seek to burn us whole ♪ ♪ His breath and blood of grace ♪

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♪ Had long lived for a day ♪ ♪ On the hills of New Zealand ♪ ♪ 'Til we hear our own strength confide ♪ ♪ Our striving would be no use here ♪

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♪ Were not the right man on our side ♪ ♪ The man of God most usely ♪ ♪ God's wrathful glad-cage be ♪ ♪ Christ, Jesus, in His kingdom ♪

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♪ Lord, suffer all His pain ♪ ♪ From age to age the same ♪ ♪ And He must lift the bad one ♪ ♪ And always, always let us fear ♪

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♪ Sure threat not to come to us ♪ ♪ We will not give for thought as weird ♪ ♪ This brutal triumph through us ♪ ♪ On plains of darkness gray ♪

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♪ We tremble not for Him ♪ ♪ His praise we can endure ♪ ♪ For lo, His toll be sure ♪ ♪ One little word shall fail Him ♪

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♪ Onward, all of old, we've gone ♪ ♪ No place to live but by death ♪ ♪ But here I am, on this earth ♪ ♪ All in all, with a sight of death ♪

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♪ Blackboards and paper and foam ♪ ♪ His heart alive on stone ♪ ♪ The body they make him ♪ ♪ Hearts to the highest king ♪

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♪ His kingdom lives forever ♪ Let us pray. You may be seated. Our blessed Master, we come again into thy presence at this hour of worship.

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We come with bowed head and thankful heart, dear Master, thanking thee for the multitude of blessings that thou hast bestowed upon us. We ask a special blessing from those who are putting on thee own by baptism. May we realize, dear Master, that there was a time

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that we needed to draw closer to you than it is now. Give us of thy spirit, dear Master, and feed us from thy holy table, from thy service this day.

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Open by our hearts and our minds for the reception of thy word, knowing that the end of thy word does give us life. Now guide us in the rest of what we do

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and take charge of the service. In thy name we pray, amen. There are two ordinances in the Baptist Church, baptism and the Lord's Supper. Today we observe both of them.

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Baptism is the gateway into the church. It is a symbol of that inner working of grace which occurs in the life of the believer. Jesus himself was baptized and he commands his disciples to go into all the world, preach his gospel and to baptize people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

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So we come now to carry out this divine command. The first candidate for baptism is Vernon Anthony Creighton, who is six years of age. Those persons, parents, and others who may have been instrumental in Vernon making this decision for Christ, we would like for you to stand at this time. Is his mother

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here and others in the audience and his father is here with us in the back. Vernon upon profession of your faith in Christ I baptize you in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. [music]

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Amen. [music] The next candidate is Richard Elliot Lee, 11 years of age. Those persons, parents and others

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who may have been instrumental in Richard making this decision for Jesus Christ, we would like for you to stand at this time. We have his mother and father here in the rear.

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Richard, upon profession of your faith in Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (piano music)

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♪ Oh brother, thou keep'st us in one ♪ ♪ Oh brother, thou keep'st us in one ♪ ♪ Oh brother, thou keep'st us in one ♪ ♪ There's no man, there's no man like thee ♪

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♪ There's no man, there's no man like thee ♪ ♪ Let's go down to the rock ♪ ♪ Let's go down to the rock ♪ ♪ Let's go down to the rock ♪

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♪ Hallelujah ♪ (dramatic music) (gentle piano music) (gentle piano music)

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(gentle piano music) (piano music) (gentle piano music) ♪ We the poor, the blind ♪

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♪ Shall renew their strength ♪ ♪ They that wait upon the Lord ♪ ♪ Shall renew their strength ♪ ♪ They that wait upon the Lord ♪

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♪ Shall renew their strength ♪ ♪ They shall rise up from their wings ♪ ♪ Like an eagle ♪ ♪ Be gone ♪

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♪ Be gone ♪ ♪ Lay their weight upon the Lord ♪ ♪ Shall renew their strength ♪ ♪ Lay their weight upon the Lord ♪

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♪ Shall renew their strength ♪ ♪ Lay their weight upon the Lord ♪ ♪ Shall renew their strength ♪ ♪ They shall melt the full moon in the sky ♪

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♪ And he go ♪ ♪ He go ♪ ♪ He go ♪ ♪ He go ♪

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♪ They shall walk in the rain ♪ ♪ Chase me Lord ♪ ♪ Chase me Lord ♪ ♪ Out of the way ♪

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♪ Out of the way ♪ ♪ They shall walk in the way ♪ ♪ They shall walk in the way ♪ ♪ Teach me, Lord ♪

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♪ Teach me, Lord ♪ ♪ Out of the way ♪ ♪ Out of the way ♪ ♪ He's so good, I cannot give you ♪

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♪ His shall work and I'll reign ♪ ♪ Teach me, Lord ♪ ♪ Teach me, Lord ♪ ♪ How to reign ♪

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♪ How to reign ♪ ♪ Teach me, Lord ♪ ♪ Teach me, Lord ♪ ♪ How to wait ♪

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♪ How to wait ♪ - Amen. - Amen. - Our responsive reading is found the back of your hymnal, number 557,

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"The Work of the Holy Spirit." [MUSIC - "THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT"] ♪ Listen ye, my word, ye children ♪ ♪ I am thy God ♪

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♪ Blessed are they who walk with the word of the Lord ♪ ♪ In their hearts ♪ ♪ Their hearts be silent ♪ ♪ While the Lord speaketh to his children ♪

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- The number is 556, the coming of the Holy Spirit. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. - And so there was a softness in the heaven

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as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. - And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

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- And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them address. and there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews,

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devout men, out of every nation under heaven. -Now when this was known as the Broad, the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

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[music] -I will keep thy word in my heart. ♪ Gave deep down in my heart ♪ - And they were all amazed and marveled,

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saying one to another, "Behold, are not all these which speak Galilean?" - "For Peleus spake these words, "the Holy Ghost tell of all them which heard their word."

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- And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because then on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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While the believers received the tongues, and thanked upon God, they answered Peter. Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?

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And he commanded them to be baptized, and to thank the Lord, [ Inaudible ] [MUSIC] [ Music ]

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(gentle piano music) [ Music ] Who can melt a heart of stone? Who can write a thoughtless rhyme?

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Who can make a sinner whole? ♪ Who can warm a world that's gone cold ♪ ♪ Nobody but God can ♪ ♪ God can ♪

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♪ He can do it ♪ ♪ I know the Lord can do it ♪ ♪ Nobody but God can ♪ ♪ I know that my God can ♪

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♪ Let him do it right now ♪ ♪ Who brings joy when there's despair ♪ ♪ Who brings hope when none seems to care ♪ ♪ Out of all ♪

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♪ His loving power ♪ ♪ Who can save a dying man ♪ ♪ Nobody but God can ♪ ♪ Nobody but God can ♪

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♪ He can do it ♪ ♪ I know the Lord can do it ♪ ♪ Nobody but God can ♪ ♪ I know that my God can ♪

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♪ Let him do it right now ♪ ♪ God can ♪ ♪ God can ♪ ♪ He can do it ♪

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♪ I know the Lord can do it ♪ ♪ Nobody but God can ♪ ♪ I know that my God can ♪ ♪ Hear Him do it right now ♪

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♪ God can ♪ God can. He can do it. I know the Lord can do it.

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God can. God can. ♪ Let him do it ♪ ♪ Let him do it ♪

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♪ Let him do it ♪ ♪ Let him do it ♪ ♪ From my love ♪ This is the Children's Hour. All children in the congregation from the kindergarten

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level through the fifth grade are asked to come forward at this time. Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Do not hinder them, for such is the kingdom of heaven." He said to his disciples, "Unless you change, unless you repent and become as a little child, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.

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up a child the way that he should go. When he is old he will not depart from it. When I was a child I thought as a child I understood as a child. [ Pause ] >> Good morning.

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>> Good morning. >> How are you this morning? >> Fine. >> Good. Does anybody here have a penny?

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>> No. >> No one has a penny? No one has a penny at all. Pennies are real scarce these days. Who has a penny?

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[inaudible] All right. Well, let me have one of your coins here for just a moment. [silence] I had planned to have a penny and I left it in my pocket upstairs,

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but this will do just as well. When I was much younger, when I was just about the size of some of you here, I would see an Indian head on a penny. penny with an Indian head on it.

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You don't see many of them today. And well, I try to collect some of them because if you could get one in a certain year, there would be sort of a prize given

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or you'd get more money for it because it was considered of more value because it was an Indian head penny, penny with an Indian head,

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and it was made in a certain year. Normally we think of a penny as just being worth a penny. And if you have the face of the penny sort of defaced, you know how it may be scratched and worn and battered so that you can't tell what it is.

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Then of course, if it's in that kind of condition, it's not worth anything. has on it, "In God We Trust." This is U.S. money. So we like to think of it as being in good condition, not being scratched and worn to the point where you can't identify what it is, tell what it is. Then we also like for it to be shining so that we might

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get the proper use out of it. In a sense, that's the way it should be with our lives. We ought to have the kind of appearance that God wants us to have.

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We ought to present ourselves as we should be in the right manner. We ought to be bright with his will, the desire to do his will so that we might be useful in his service.

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And so when you have that, then it's ready to spend, you see, when it's in good order, you can spend it and use it in exchange for other things. So our life can be useful, it can be properly used

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to the glory of God when we have ourselves intact in a position to give the best appearance with the best spirit to be used in the best way. God bless you and keep you.

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[ Music ] [MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪ ♪♪

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[ Music ] Walk in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, everything that you do, do it in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God. ♪ Walk in the Spirit ♪ ♪ Walk in the Spirit ♪

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♪ Everything that you do ♪ ♪ Just live in the Spirit ♪ ♪ The Holy Spirit of God ♪ (upbeat piano music)

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♪ Do not the things that are wrong ♪ ♪ In the sight of God ♪ ♪ In the sight of God ♪ ♪ I walk in the Spirit ♪

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♪ And it goes forevermore ♪ ♪ Walk in the Spirit ♪ ♪ Talk in the Spirit ♪ ♪ Everything that you do ♪

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♪ Do it in the Spirit ♪ ♪ The Holy Spirit of God ♪ ♪ Walk in the way of the Lord ♪ ♪ And shall love to all ♪

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♪ And shall love to all ♪ ♪ Let the spirit ♪ ♪ To do that the Lord has promised you ♪ ♪ Walk in the spirit ♪

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♪ Talk in the spirit ♪ ♪ Everything that you do ♪ ♪ Do it in the spirit ♪ ♪ The Holy Spirit of God ♪

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♪ Do it in the Spirit ♪ ♪ The Holy Spirit of God ♪ ♪ Do it in the Spirit ♪ ♪ The Holy Spirit of God ♪

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Worship the Lord now in our giving. That each one of us give according to how the Lord has prospered you. Persons who are worshiping with us

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who are not members of this church family, if you have not signed a visitor's card, would you raise your hand? If you are here as a guest

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and you have not signed a visitor's card, would you raise your hand, please? "Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase, so shall thy bonds be filled with plenty and thy presses burst out with new wine."

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Our church is supported through tithes and offerings. The tithe is one-tenth of one's income given to the Lord through the church. And we encourage you to follow the Bible way of giving, that is, to tithe and to make an offering.

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Let us pray. Lord, we bless you for the many blessings that you have showered upon us from above. You are so good to every one of us. You cause the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust.

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us now as we offer ourselves to you and our substance that it might be used to glorify your name and extend your rule in the hearts and lives of others. Amen. [ Background noise ]

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The third Sunday in this month is Woman's Day. It is one of the outstanding days That we have in our church. It is a day

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when the Leadership of this church would be in the hands of the women all of the others the men and the youth Will be giving support in a special way

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The leader for the Woman's Day observance this year is Sister Betty Johnson, and the co-chairperson is Sister Eileen Street. And there are some 45 teams.

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We want that you will support this in every way. We hope that every person has, at this time, contacted your team member. It's an opportunity for us to come to know each other better

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as members of the family. It's an opportunity for us to somewhat be revived. Those who may not be as active for one reason or another as you should be, we hope that in a special way,

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each member of the team will bear witness. That Sunday afternoon, Sister Peterson, Ruby Stelle Peterson of Dallas, Texas will give the address. And the theme for the observance is "Woman,

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a Portrait of God's Majesty." "Woman, a Portrait of God's Majesty." I have an announcement concerning the importance of the candlelight service, which is at 8 o'clock,

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the morning of the 15th at 8 o'clock, All of the women of the church are invited to participate in that candlelight service. And you are asked to sign up today. If you have not already in the foyer, there's a place for you to sign up.

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And we would like for you to do that, to sign up as a candlebearer, all of the women, and you are asked to wear white and to participate in that candlelight service on the 15th of May at 8 o'clock. We hope that we will have a record attendance in our services that day.

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We have a goal of some 400 women, and with your support, that can be done. Each team is asked to have a minimum at least of $500, and we hope that many of you will go over that. This is a time when we have sort of an effort in which we catch up the slack and move ahead

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in our church budget. Let's make this a grand and glorious observance that will long be remembered in the history of our church. I received word that the Reverend J.L. Dawson,

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who pastored the David Chapel of the Baptist Church for a number of years here in our city, who was in later years the pastor of the Mount Otteridge Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas,

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passed away last week and will be funeralized there in Fort Worth at the Mount Olive Baptist Church tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. Let's remember this family and church. On tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. the newsletter committee will meet again. I'm grateful for the fact that they met this past week and the committee is to

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meet again on tomorrow at 6 p.m. Now I want to recognize those persons who are worshiping with us, who are our guests today. I have another announcement before that.

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The funeral of Samuel Mercer, Sr. will be held Monday, May 2nd, Sweet Home Baptist Church, Round Rock, at 3 p.m. the funeral of Samuel Mercer, Sr. at Round Rock tomorrow at the Sweet Home Baptist Church 3 p.m. Several weeks ago, we had worshipping with us a candidate for the city council.

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And today, that person is back not as a candidate, but as a person who has been elected. The council person elect, Sally Shipman. And as I said, when the governor was here a number of weeks ago, it was unprecedented that a governor would come back after

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having been here before, facing the congregation, seeking support, to come back and say, thank you. Well, this has happened again. And we are delighted that -- would you stand?

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This is our new council person, Sally Shipman, that I believe possibly received more votes than anyone in the election. She didn't have to face a runoff.

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And she is going to be serving on the city council. I don't know whether she wants to say thank you or not. So if she does, I'm gonna let you come right here to this microphone and do so.

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Thank you. - Thank you very much. And please let me hear from you and I ask for your prayers in the next two years

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as I serve you. Thank you. Well, we're delighted that you have won, and we will certainly seek to be giving our assistance

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that you will have a very good administration, and we'll be remembering you in our prayers. Now we'd like for others who are worshiping with us, who are our guests, to stand.

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Sharon Washington of the Olivet Baptist Church, visiting here with T.W. Kenshin and family. All right. Let's see, is it Hans Woltz,

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Woltz Jung, and I'm not sure I got this right, of the Evangelical Church from the Austin Presbyterian Seminary. All right.

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And what is the other name there, please? All right, thank you. Mr. and Mrs. Lareese LaRose Hedgman of the Weeping Mary Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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Would you stand, please? Thank you. And are there others worshiping with us who did not sign the visitor's card?

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Now, will some person who is near that person that stood, those persons that stood, give them a warm handshake as an expression of our greeting this morning? We are glad to have each one of you here.

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We earnestly hope that the service would be a source of inspiration and strength to each one of you. I was engaged, as you know, last week in the home mission study tour of the Southern Baptist

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Convention. I've had the privilege of serving now for five years. The term is four years, and I've been elected by the convention for a second term, another a four-year term, and the directors are encouraged to take a tour of the work.

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Last year we went to South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. And this past week we were in Oregon, Washington, and Canada. We had a very, very tight schedule. I left here on Sunday afternoon just barely made that plane.

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Brother Wallace here, did you come here to meet me? All right, I'm going to have to pay him. I had him to come and meet me. I was going to leave my car here and then go on to the airport.

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And behold, I guess he thought I wasn't coming and I almost missed that flight. In fact, when I got on there, Brother Kinchin, Brother Kinchin, Brother Street was there and they were given the last call and by the grace of God, I was able to make it. We arrived in Portland.

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There's a time difference, as you know, of two hours and we were greeted at the airport by the head of the group, Bill Junkers of the Home Mission Board, who arranges these tours and we had our orientation session on Monday. There were 74 persons in the group, 74 persons in the group, and we left and went to various

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points in Oregon to see the work there. Most of the churches are small. Southern Baptists have just moved into the area as far as giving a witness in recent years.

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And there is a great deal of pioneer work occurring, and God is richly blessing the work in that area. Canadian Baptists have asked for help from the Southern Baptist Convention because of the commonality in theology and ecclesiology as far as their thinking concerning the church

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and its work in the world. And one of the issues which the convention will face next month in Pittsburgh when the convention meets there is whether or not to accept Canadian Baptists into the Southern Baptist Convention.

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So it sounds rather strange when you say Southern Baptist Convention that when I was a boy, was limited primarily to the southern states and for the most part to the Confederacy at that. Now, it has moved all over this country, both east and west, north and south.

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We're going to have a tour next year in New England and now into Canada. And one of the issues is whether or not to accept the Canadian Baptist really want Southern Baptist there because of the church program, the cooperative program, their emphasis primarily on missions and evangelism.

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One thing which I did not know, I discovered on this trip, is that that particular area, Oregon, Washington, and Canada, and we were in Vancouver the last day in Victoria, that general area is one of the most unchurched areas in the world. Even nations in the communist block have a larger percentage of evangelical Christians than we have in that area. It's

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a beautiful area, beautiful. Flowers and the greenery that you see and many of the lakes with fishing and all of that. And many of the people there in those areas worship the creation more than the creator. And a very small percentage of them identify with any church, any church. So it's a great opportunity and it's one that I hope that we will remember

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in our prayers as we pray for the... [BLANK_AUDIO]