March 2-4, 2018 Crown Reef Resort & Conference Center Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

March 2-4, 2018 Crown Reef Resort & Conference Center Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Festival Participants Youth Choirs Binkley Memorial Baptist, Chapel Hill, NC Boulevard Baptist, Anderson, SC Central Presbyterian, Anderson, SC Earle Street Baptist, Greenville, SC First Baptist, Easley, SC First Baptist, Greenwood, SC First Baptist, Laurens, SC First Baptist, Orangeburg, SC First Baptist, Raleigh, NC First Baptist, Whiteville, NC First Presbyterian, Clinton, SC Kathwood Baptist, Columbia, SC Oakland Baptist, Rock Hill, SC Providence Baptist, Charlotte, NC Pullen Memorial Baptist, Raleigh, NC St. Andrews Baptist, Columbia, SC United Church of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Westminster Presbyterian, Greenville, SC Clinician Jeffery Redding Director of Choral Activities West Orange High School, Winter Garden, FL Accompanist Lynne Robinson Festival Coordinator Burt Pardue Worship Design Larry E. Schultz Festival Shirts Fred DeFoor Sectional Rehearsal Leaders Jenny Anderson Tim Hill Adair Rogers We are grateful to the many Chaperons, Families, Friends, Leaders, Directors and Ministers who make this festival and today s worship a meaningful and memorable experience. Appreciation for the piano rental is given to John Mastroberti and the Grand Strand Piano Center. March 1-3, 2019, join us to celebrate the 20 th Anniversary Festival by the Sea with clinician, Emily W. Burch. Festival by the Sea is an ecumenical festival sponsored by participating churches and the South Carolina Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. www.festivalbythesea.org In the worship guide: *denotes Festival Choir standing +denotes All Worshipers standing

Worship by the Sea Music for Awaking The music awakens our senses and brings an awareness to the worship we are about to express. Gathering Prayer Christ Be in My Waking Stuart Townend & Simon Brading Gathering Words Building a House & Setting a Table +Hymn (insert) All Are Welcome TWO OAKS *Anthem For Everyone Born Brian Mann/Arr. Tom Trenney For everyone born, a place at the table, for everyone born, clean water and bread, a shelter, a space, a safe place for growing, for everyone born, a star overhead, For woman and man, a place at the table, revising the roles, deciding the share, with wisdom and grace, dividing the power, for woman and man, a system that's fair, Refrain: and God will delight when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace: yes, God will delight when we are creators of justice, justice and joy! For young and for old, a place at the table, a voice to be heard, a part in the song, the hands of a child in hands that are wrinkled, for young and for old, the right to belong, For everyone born, a place at the table, to live without fear, and simply to be, to work, to speak out, to witness and worship, for everyone born, the right to be free, -Shirley Erena Murray Expression of Gratitude i thank you god for most this amazing e e cummings Contemporary Psalm 104 One: O Source of Life, there are so many wonders in our world! All: The earth is full of amazing things and your energy has brought them forth! We are speaking of the gigantic seas, beyond measure, the lifeforms that live in the oceans both known and unknown, and the people who travel those oceans in ships and submarines, moving as whales and dolphins above and beneath the waves! We are speaking of the endless strands of beaches and their grains of sand that do not outnumber the stars in the multiverse! And we speak of the variety of foods provided to us, and to every animal, with the changing of the seasons. When the harvest comes, it s as if you open your hand and feed us all with mouth-watering delicacies!

Your energy creates and constantly renews the earth and every creature that lives on the planet. One: For these amazing things All: we will sing in gratitude as long as we live; we will sing aloud while we have strength; we will lift our voice in praise and thanksgiving! *Anthem Lift Your Voice in Praise and Thanksgiving G.F. Handel/Arr. Holmes Lift your voice in praise and thanksgiving, and join the throng keeping holy day. +Hymn (insert) Praise to the Living God DIADEMATA Prayers of Concern One: In this, our time of need, All: may love abound. Reflection on Psalm 139 *Anthem We Are Not Alone Pepper Choplin Contemplations & Revelations: Where We Find God Revelation 21 We are not alone; God is with us. We are never alone. *Anthem And God Shall Wipe Away All Tears Eleanor Daley And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more sorrow nor crying. Neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. -Revelation 21:4 +Hymn (insert) Canticle of the Turning STAR OF COUNTY DOWN Prayers of Joy One: In this abundant blessing, All: we share the joy. *Anthem Let Everything That Hath Breath Jeffery Ames Sing unto the Lord a new song. Sing unto the Lord all the earth. Declare his glory among the nations. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord! Magnify the Lord with me and exalt his name together. Hallelujah, bless his name for he s worthy to be praised. Clap your hands all ye people. Shout with a voice of triumph; for the mighty Lord is great and greatly to be praised! Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord! Come on and praise the Lord; let s all praise his name. Praise him with the timbrel, praise him with the dance. Stand upon your feet and just lift up holy hands.

Sing Hallelujah, praise his holy name. For the Lord is worthy to be praised! Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord! You oughta, you oughta praise him! -from the Psalms Words of Celebration *Anthem Christ Be in My Waking Townend/Brading/Arr. Larry Shackley Christ be in my waking, Christ be in my thinking, as the sun is rising, and my understanding, in my day of working, guarding me from evil, with me every hour. walking in the light. Christ be in my resting, Christ be in my speaking, as the day is ending, every word a blessing, Jesus, this is my devotion: calming and refreshing, pure and not deceiving, all my life to know you, watching through the night. grace to all who hear. every day to walk with you. Savior, you re my deepest longing; Christ be in my gladness Christ when hope has faded, you re the one I live for; for the joy of living, nothing left to cling to, teach me, Lord, to walk with you. thankful for the goodness every pleasure jaded, of the Father's hand. every well is dry. Christ be in my sorrow, Christ the loving shepherd in my day of darkness, draws me with his kindness, knowing that I follow leads me from the desert in the steps he trod. to the streams of life. +Parting Blessing Solo Voices: As we leave this festival home assured that Christ is within us, let us go to build houses of love and set tables of welcome in our own communities and throughout the world. And may the song that rebounded from these rafters now resound in our voices as we go to live and love and sing! All (loudly): Amen! Music for Departing Improv. on Let Everything that Has Breath Jeffery Ames The music sends us on our way in celebration and joy! Christ Be in My Waking by Stuart Townend & Simon Brading 2011 Thankyou Music (PRS) (adm. worldwide at CapitolCMGPublishing.com). Used by permission of License Number: 621605. For Everyone Born by Shirley Murray 1998 Hope Publishing Company. Used by permission of OneLicense.net #A-701723. We Are Not Alone by Pepper Choplin 2005 Shawnee Press. Used by permission of OneLicense.net #A-701723. Let Everything That Hath Breath by Jeffery Ames 1998 earthsongs. Used by permission of the publisher. Other anthem texts are public domain.

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