January 8, 2011
The Church at Study
9:15am – 10:30am
Lesson Study Guide (1st Quarter 2011): Jesus Wept:
The Bible and Human Emotions
This week’s lesson: “Divine Provision for Anxiety“
Adult Classes
Teacher Location
Chris Tucker............................................................... Sanctuary - Front
André Wilson.............................................................. Sanctuary - Back
Daniel Aluoch (Swahili/English Class)................................ Upstairs Right
The Circle (Gibran/Wilcox)............................................. Fellowship Hall
New Believers Class (Agyemang/Shurney).... Pastor’s Office (left hallway)
Collegiate/Young Adult (Orville Bignall)....................................... Library
Children’s Classes
Beginners.................................................................... Ages: Infant – 4
Kindergarten...................................................................... Ages: 5 – 7
Primary............................................................................... Ages: 8 -10
Juniors & Earliteens (Upstairs Left)................................... Ages: 11 – 14
Youth (Young Adult Classroom).................................... 9th grade and up
Church Family Time
10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Coordinator....................................................................... Brian Wilcox
Welcome, Family Fellowship & Song..................... “The Family of God”
Please turn off or silence all beepers, cell phones and other electronic devices.
“You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord” Leviticus 19:30.
Platform Coordinator:................................................................................ Laura Breece
Pianist:.......................................................................................................... Myrna Pugao
A/V Operator:.................................... Jeff Marcell / Lauren Andal/ Quincy Goodine
Greeters:............................................................................... Thomas & Charlotte Hardy
Deacon for the day:........................... Kwabena Addison-Amponsah / Nate Hatcher
The Church at Worship
God Invites Us to Worship
In Songs of Worship and Preparation Pat Ward
“We Sing Alleluia”
In the Call to Worship:
O God, You are our God. Earnestly we seek You today. Our souls thirst for You, our whole being longs for You.
We Respond
In Praise “Majesty”
In Invocation Pastor Melvin Santos
In Hymn of Praise #27
“Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart”
God Invites Us to Confess
In Congregational Song
“Soften My Heart, Lord”
In Prayer Dexter Shurney
God Invites Us to Respond
In Giving Our Offerings Dean Flint
Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance
In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving
“Great Are You Lord”
We Receive Him
Through Scripture Reading Raimond Breece
2 Corinthians 5:17
Through Special Music David W. Clark
Through the Word Pastor Melvin Santos
“Double Rinse, Double Wash”
Through the Ordinance of Humility
(Children’s story at the front of the sanctuary with Stephanie Mazza)
(When you return to the sanctuary, please sit in the pews with dots)
Through the Lord’s Supper
“The Old Rugged Cross” #159
“Tell Me the Story of Jesus” #152
We Depart to Serve
With His Song #462
“Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine”
With His Benediction
(Please be seated following the Benediction)
Postlude Marjie Johns
**We will receive a Good Samaritan offering at the door at the close of services today**
Nashville First Seventh-day Adventist Church
2800 Blair Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-297-1343
www.nfsda.org / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone Directory
Melvin Santos, Pastor (home) 472-1721/ (cell) 810-241-3399
First Elder
Jack Azor, Head Deacon (home) 672-5646/ (cell) 812-7605
Nate Hatcher, Sr., Co-Head Deacon 242-5235
Sherri Bohnert, Co-Head Deaconess 884-0134
Laura Breece, Co-Head Deaconess 650-8416
Dean Flint, Personal Ministries (home) 868-0820/ (cell) 585-2108
Raylene Wilcox, Church Administrator
Church Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Please have all bulletin information to the church office Thursday mornings before 10:00 a.m. You may leave messages on the church answering machine if necessary. Thank you.
MONTHLY CHURCH BUDGET is $11,465. Please note your faithfulness in giving your offerings to the Lord. Offerings marked “church budget” are the only funds that help with the operational costs of the church. FYI: Remember our tithes, which show our faithfulness to God, are based on 10% of your wage or income & offerings have no percentage because it symbolizes the unlimited love for Christ. It can be 3%, 5%, 10%, 20%, etc.
Church Budget Update
Needed for month $11,465
NEXT WEEK’S OFFERING: First Church Budget
The Nursery, located in the foyer across from the kitchen, is open for parents needing a private place to feed or change their babies. The Toddler “Time-Out” Room is located in the Beginners classroom during the church service. There are monitors in these rooms so parents can continue to see and hear the worship service.
If your small child would enjoy a quiet diversion during the worship service, please see one of the greeters for a children’s “Quiet Bag.” Please return the bags to the basket at the welcome table in the foyer after the worship service.
Sunset Tonight: 4:49 pm Sunset Next Friday: 4:56 pm
Church Calendar
TODAY – January 8, 2011
- All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services. All Invited!!
- The Intercessory Prayer Ministry will meet about 10 minutes after the end of services in the Beginner’s classroom. All are welcome.
- “Anticipations & Reflections” vespers and reception social. Vespers starts at 4:30pm in the sanctuary. Please bring your favorite snacks and treats to share.
Next Week
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9
v Baby Shower for Reneé Bohnert-Carver, 11:00 – 1:00pm in the fellowship hall. Please come help us make this newest member of our family welcome. Reneé is registered at Target, Walmart and USA Baby (in Franklin).
Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule
All rehearsals will start promptly at 9:00am in the music room
- January 15 – Primary choir
- January 22 – Youth/Adult choir
- January 29 – Primary choir
Children’s Church Schedule
Children’s Church will be held on the following dates:
- January 15
- February 26
- March 12
Social committee Calendar of Events
You are invited - come and enjoy a time of fun and fellowship with your church family! Save the dates:
TONIGHT, January 8th – Anticipations and Reflections vespers and reception. Vespers will start at 4:30pm in the sanctuary. Please bring your family’s favorite snacks and treats to share at the reception following vespers.
February 12 - dinner and entertainment “at” our Mediterranean café. Dinner starts at 7:00pm in the fellowship hall.
“The Family that plays together stays together!”
WELCOME!
Welcome to the Nashville First SDA Church! We are delighted you chose to worship with us this Sabbath.
First Church Family Prayer List:
This Week’s Prayer Focus Families - Remember these in prayer this week:
Devon Breece
Raimond & Laura Breece, son Michael Reeves
Vickie Brewer
Prayer Requests for Healing:
- Doris Monk – surgery scheduled for January 18, gallbladder & tumor on kidney, sister of Debbie Keeling
- Mina Angwenyi – recovery, hip replacement surgery
- Ruth Swain – health recovery
- Jimmy Underhill – cancer cells found in colon, recovery from surgery
- Donald Sparks – recovering from strokes and brain hemorrhage, brother of Judy Rimer
- Eucabeth Ongau – recovery from car accident; healing for legs
- Clara Johnson – health concerns, co-worker of Pat Ward
- Pastor Lynn Schlisner – failing health
- Lynda Briggs – diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; Shingles
- – Health concerns
- Baby Michael Copeland – premature birth complications
- Clyde Ward – kidney disease, on dialysis
- Rose Marie Khulman – health concerns
- Ramone Pugao, failing health, father of Chito Pugao
- Richard Andal- recovery from stroke, father of Ric Andal
Prayer Requests (other):
- Chris & Mary Tucker
- Judy & Rod Baughman, the family and friends of David Oakes
- Friend
- Élan DeGroat – loss of home in flood, reconstruction process
- Emily Rotich – special issue
- Todd Wright – Sabbath work issues
- Our Bible study interests
- First Church members/attendees seeking employment
Announcements for January 8, 2011
All are invited to fellowship lunch after the worship service today in the fellowship hall. To expedite set-up and clean up, everyone please help as follows: kitchen duty (getting dishes in oven between Sabbath School & church, making punch, getting food on table, clean-up, etc.); set-up and clean up of chairs, tables and floors in fellowship hall.
You are invited to Anticipations and Reflections a vespers and reception social this evening, January 8th at 4:30pm here at the church. We will look back over the blessings God has granted in 2010 and look forward to the blessings God will grant in 2011! Please bring your favorite finger foods and treats to share after the vespers. Invite your family and friends!
Baby Shower: Ladies, you are invited to a baby shower for Reneé Bohnert-Carver tomorrow, January 9th, from 11am – 1pm in the fellowship hall. Reneé, and husband Ty, are expecting a baby girl. Reneé is registered at Target, Walmart & USA Baby in Franklin.
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Than Htay and Eh Min on Sunday, January 16th at 11:30 a.m. in the sanctuary.
Discipleship Basic Training with Pastor Santos, Sabbath, January 15th, at 2:00pm in the sanctuary. Open to all members and especially those who have been newly baptized in the last 2 years. Every one is urged to attend this vital training course in preparation of evangelistic efforts in the New Year!
Join us on Sabbath, January 22 for a worship service of inspirational, uplifting music with violin virtuoso Jamie Jorge. Born in Cuba and raised in a communist country, Jamie has a passion for proclaiming the gospel through his music. His gift of musical interpretation brings new life and excitement to every song. You will be inspired by his music and blessed as he shares his testimony.
Missing Items (that we’d dearly love to see again!):
- Silver soup ladle belonging to Joan Gibran. The ladle was brought to potluck and hasn’t been seen since! The ladle is very shiny, stainless steel, with an oval scoop. It has a think long handle with 3 smooth panels on top and finger indentations on the back. If you know where this ladle is, please bring it to the kitchen so it can be reunited with its owner.
- The sample of the Angel Food cook book which was left on the greeters table for all to look at has disappeared! If you know where this cook book is, please return it to the foyer as soon as possible.
Adventist Community Services Center:
Sermon Copies: We have available upon request copies of sermons presented each Sabbath. Please find the clip-board in the foyer on the small table by the double doors and provide the information necessary to get your copy. You can pick up your copy the following week from the lectern also located in the foyer. Those who wish to make a contribution of $2.00 (suggested) per CD/DVD to defray the cost may do so by placing money in an offering envelope marked “CD/DVDs.”
Please continue to save the UPC/bar code portion of packaging/labels from Worthington Foods, Loma Linda Foods, Morningstar Farms, Morningstar Farms Organic and Natural Touch products. Bring your labels to the church and place in the drop-box located in the foyer. Reimbursed labels will go to the quarterly Sabbath School mission project.