Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy - Sunday's music - March 21

Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy

I have come to find out that many in our office have never heard this beautiful old hymn.
The words were written in 1759 by Joseph Hart. The music is a pentatonic early American folk melody that seems to have first appeared in 1835 in Walker's Southern Harmony.
"What is a pentatonic scale?" you may ask.  Pentatonic has the same root word as Pentagon (five sided shape) and Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible) So have you figured out that a pentatonic scale has only 5 notes?
Brethren We Have Met to Worship is another tune based on a pentatonic scale.

Here's what it looks like on the staff and on the piano keyboard.

Here is a beautiful recording of Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy with scenes from "The Passion of the Christ" movie.


Sunday, March 21
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
You Are God Alone

Choir Anthem – Cover Me
     Duet – Traci K and Mark B

Fellowship Song – At Calvary

The Wonderful Cross

Special Music – Brenda Radford

Message – Dr. Larry D. Robertson

Invitation song  – Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy (I Will Arise and Go to Jesus)

Haha! Watch this one and you'll get a nice "Riverdance" version.


And since "Come Ye Sinners" first appeared in a Southern hymnal, what could be better than hearing it on a dulcimer?


Offertory – Michelle Dickerson

Baptism (830) Song Reed, Amanda Phillips

Closing – Bro. Tony Lewis

See you Sunday! Sing out on the invitation and help those who don't know it.