Rev. Dr. Joel Mitchell, Pastor

Morgan Park

 Baptist Church

11024 S. Bell Avenue 

Chicago, IL 60643

​773-445-9443

God’s Family Worships
10th Sunday After Pentecost
August 17, 2025 – 11:00 A.M.
Eternal God, we pray to you with a sense of wonder.  You are far beyond our ability to comprehend or define, yet you come to us as Parent and Friend.  We pray now that you will direct our minds to your Son, Jesus Christ.  Help us to capture his vision of goodness and truth and love.  Enable us to take that spirit of his into our daily round of affairs.  Through him, may we live life in a new dimension; and through lives transformed by him, may this broken world find its way to truth and peace.  Amen.
                                                                     
The Fellowship of Praise
Prelude                             Dennis Newman

Pastor's Welcome                                                                           
*Call to Worship                     Bruce Stark

Leader: We stand before the city of the living God
Congregation:  Hear the song of God’s children!
Leader: Hear the voice of the One that speaks from Heaven! 
Congregation:  The voice of the Lord shakes the Earth and echoes through the cosmos
Leader:  God’s kingdom is unshakable, a rock that cannot be moved
Congregation: The Lord is our refuge; God’s kingdom stands forever! 
Leader:  Give thanks to the Lord 
Congregation: We worship together to praise our God!

*Hymn of Praise

*Invocation and Lord’s Prayer (debts/debtors)
*Gloria Patri #734
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The Fellowship of the Family of God
Greetings and Announcements
Pastor's Welcome

The Fellowship of Giving
*Doxology #34 
*Prayer

The Fellowship of Prayer
Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
The Fellowship of the Word
*Hymn
Scripture Reading                  Bruce Stark
Sermon                    Rev. Dr.  Joel Mitchell
                       
The Sending Forth
*Closing Hymn
* Benediction
Postlude