Rev. Dr. Joel Mitchell, Pastor

Morgan Park

 Baptist Church

11024 S. Bell Avenue 

Chicago, IL 60643

​773-445-9443

God’s Family Worships
16th Sunday After Pentecost
September 12, 2021 – 11:00A.M.

Let us come before the Lord our God, calling upon him in our difficulties, celebrating with Him in our victories, counseling with Him in our perplexities, for he is God of both mercy and power Amen.
                                                                    
The Fellowship of Praise
Prelude                 “ Ordinary Just Won't Do”       by Commissioned
                                                                                    (Arr. C. Jones)
                                                                                    Cameron Jones
                                                                                   
*Call to Worship                                                                Judy Healy

Leader:  God’s love is higher than the sky.
Congregation: God’s faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
Leader: God’s righteousness is stronger than the mountains.
Congregation:  God’s justice is deeper than the seas. 
Leader: In God’s love we are safe. 
Congregation: In God we find life and light. 

*Hymn of Praise        “Holy Spirit You Are Welcome Here”    by Jesus Culture
Holy Spirit You are welcome here
Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere
Your Glory God is what our hearts long for
To be overcome by Your Presence Lord

 *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
Praise and Thanks
For the continued ministry of MPBC; and the love and support of our MPBC members and friends; for our Pastor, Rev. Dr. Joel Mitchell and his family.

For Healing and Rehabilitation
Annette Adams; Annether Baines; Diane Brownlee; Patsy Browning; Beverly Capers (sister of Beatrice Haywood); Elizabeth Chelton (Granddaughter of Patsy Browning); Trisha Clark (granddaughter of Penny Lord); Neil Cunningham; The Goodman Family; Linda Guisewite (mother of Debbie Taylor); Floyd Hale and family; Priscilla Hall; Aretha Hampton; Shavon Harp (Niece of Annether Baines); The Haywood Family; The Healy/Chase Family; Family of Cleone Kober;
The Kurut Family; Jack & Penny Lord; Linda, Stephanie & Joan McCarty; John & Flora Mitchell (Pastor Joel’s parents); Sam and Karen Mitchell;  
Family of Reverend Millie Myren; Beverly Nickerson; Haile Selassie (son of Bruce and Rev. Francine White); Barbara Shriver (mother of Gretchen Shriver); Robert Soria (grandson of Susan Soria); Debbie and Mack Taylor; Cassandra Taylor (JFK owner); Jean Turner; Michael Whaley; Jeremy Williams & Family; Ira Williams

For Guidance and Direction
For our MPBC family, our vision for the future, and for our young people

For Watchcare
All of our service men and women serving and all of our veterans; All of our missionaries, who serve in all parts of the USA and in many parts of the world; For the President of the United States, Joe Biden. For all the people who have suffered through natural disasters; For the city of Chicago, that violence will cease.
Pastoral Prayer

The Fellowship of the Word
*Hymn              “Ordinary Just Won't Do”              by Commissioned 
Ordinary just won’t do
I need a love that's pure and true I
Can always find it in you Jesus
 
Scripture Readings Genesis 37:5-11
5 Once Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. 6He said to them, ‘Listen to this dream that I dreamed. 7There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright; then your sheaves gathered around it, and bowed down to my sheaf.’ 8His brothers said to him, ‘Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us?’ So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.
9 He had another dream, and told it to his brothers, saying, ‘Look, I have had another dream: the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.’ 10But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, ‘What kind of dream is this that you have had? Shall we indeed come, I and your mother and your brothers, and bow to the ground before you?’ 11So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
 

Sermon                  “THE DREAMER”                 Rev. Dr. Joel Mitchell
                      
The Sending Forth

*Closing Hymn     “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen”       by Louis Armstrong
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows but Jesus
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Glory Hallelujah

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows my sorrow
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Glory Hallelujah

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows but Jesus
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Glory Hallelujah
    
* Benediction

Postlude  “Holy Spirit You Are Welcome Here”    by Jesus Culture      (Arr. C. Jones)