Gathering Music

Opening Song

Conway G. Gittens/Congregation

“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”

What a fellowship, what a joy divine
Leaning on the everlasting arms
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine
Leaning on the everlasting arms

Chorus:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarm
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms

Oh how to sweet to walk in this pilgrim way
Leaning on the everlasting arms
Oh how bright the path grows from day to day
Leaning on the everlasting arms

Chorus:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarm
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms

What have I to dread, what have I to fear
Leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near
Leaning on the everlasting arms

Chorus:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarm
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms

Opening Prayer

William White

Welcome/Greeting

AfriSCaD

Scripture Reading

Janice Marie Beauchamp

Psalm 139:13-16 NRSV
For it was you who formed my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.

My frame was not hidden from from you,
When I was made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.

Musical Selection

AfriSCaD

Poem Reading

Dr. Traci West

Special Music

“On The Rivers of Babylon”

Rev. Lark McCalman & Company

Sermon

Rev. Dr. Willie Francois III, Pastor, Fountain Baptist Church

Closing Music

“When The Saints Go Marching In”

Rev. Lark McCalman & Company

Blessing

Rev. Dr. Willie Francois III