February 5, 2011

The Church at Study

9:15am – 10:30am

Lesson Study Guide (1^st Quarter 2011):                                         Jesus Wept:

The Bible and Human Emotions

This week’s lesson: “Good Thinking“

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).................................... 9^th 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:..................................................................................................... Norma Sheffield

A/V Operator:..................................................... Brian Wilcox / Ric Andal/ Ken Hreha

Greeters:.......................................................................................... Musa & Mimi Garba

Deacon for the day:........................................................... Nate Hatcher / Jeff Marcell

The Church at Worship

God Invites Us to Worship

In Songs of Worship and Preparation                                   Nate Hatcher

“We Sing Alleluia” 

In the Call to Worship:

Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and shield.  For our hearts shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name.  Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in You.

We Respond

**                                                           In Praise                                     “Majesty”

In Invocation                                                                   Pastor Melvin Santos

In Hymn of Praise                                                                                             #21

“Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”

God Invites Us to Confess

In Congregational Song

“Soften My Heart, Lord”

In Prayer                                                                                      Paul Agyemang 

God Invites Us to Respond

In Giving Our Offerings                                                                Karl Bohnert

First Church Budget

**                                                                 In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving

“Great Are You Lord”

In the Children’s Story                                                        Patricia Matsinhe

We Receive Him

Through Scripture Reading                                                            Ann Foster

1 John 5:14 - 15

Through Special Music                                              Youth/Adult Bell Choir

Through the Word                                                        Pastor Melvin Santos

“The Great Expansion Movement:  Changing Life’s Destiny Part 2”

We Depart to Serve

With His Song                                                                                                   #251

“He Lives”

With His Benediction

(Please be seated following the Benediction)

Postlude Marjie Johns

**Seating of Latecomers

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

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

Total received for                Month                   $   8,842

Month to date +/- - $ 2,623

NEXT WEEK’S OFFERING:  Religious Liberty

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: 5:17 pm                   Sunset Next Friday: 5:24 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – February 5, 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.
• Season of Prayer with Pastor Santos at 2:00pm in the sanctuary.

Next Week

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6^TH

v COOL group meeting 11:00am – 1:00pm in the library. 

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

All rehearsals will start promptly at 9:00 a.m. in the music room

•  February 5 – Youth/adult choir

•  February 12 – Primary choir

•  February 19 – Youth/adult choir

Choir Schedule

All rehearsals will start immediately after the worship service in the sanctuary

•  1^st & 3^rd Sabbaths – Church Choir

•  2^nd Sabbaths – Men’s Chorus

•  4^th Sabbaths – Women’s Chorus

•  5^th Sabbaths – Miscellaneous (will be announced)

Children’s Church Schedule

Children’s Church will be held on the following dates:

•  February 26 

•  March 12 

Social Committee Events -  

Next Saturday night, February 12: Family style dinner and entertainment at our Mediterranean café starting at 7:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall.

SIGN-UP SHEET IS IN THE FOYER – SIGN-UP DEALINE IS TODAY!

“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:

Marcela Bunn

Tracy Burks

Peter Busienei & Emily Rotich, daughters Edith & Faith 

Prayer Requests for Healing:

•  Reneé Carver – complications following delivery of baby Khloe

•  Doris Monk – surgery, 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 – Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

•    – 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

•  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 February 5, 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.

SEASON OF PRAYER - LET MY PEOPLE PRAY: Today at 2 p.m.  Please join us for this special Season of Prayer. We will set up a prayer agenda, praying for personal requests, church ministries and evangelistic meetings.

The next C.O.O.L. (Crochet Out Of Love) meeting is tomorrow, February 6^thfrom 11:00am -1:00pm in the Library.  Bring your yarn, hooks, patterns, any projects you have ready and your own lunch/snacks and drink.

Next Sabbath’s offering is for Adventist Television Ministries.  Our Television Ministries – Breath of Life, It Is Written and Faith for Today – sow the seeds over the airwaves.  We reap the harvest with our friends and neighbors.  Please plan a substantial offering for Adventist Television Ministries next week.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day as a church family, the Social Committee invites you to our Mediterranean Café.  Next Saturday night, February 12^th, the fellowship hall will be transformed into the Greek islands.  Starting at 7:00 p.m. you will be treated to a delicious meal, entertainment and games suitable for the whole family.  Invite your family and friends.  To help plan and purchase food, please RSVP TODAY (deadline) on the sign-up sheet located in the foyer on the table across from the kitchen.

Discipleship Basic Training with Pastor Santos on Sabbath,  February 19, at 2:00 p.m. 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 for evangelistic efforts in the New Year! Bring your Bible, pen, notebook, and a teachable spirit.

Boot Camp for Lay Evangelist: February 18 - 20, 2011 at Indian Creek Camp, presented by Ralph Ringer, Olin McGraw, and David Hartman.  You will learn everything from A-Z about holding an evangelistic series.  See insert in your bulletin for more information.

MEDIA NOTE: The worship service provided by Jaime Jorge on Sabbath, January 22 was not recorded by our A/V department at the request of Mr. Jorge due to copy right laws.

Updated church directories are available in the foyer after church.  Please see Raylene Wilcox for your copy.  Please limit one per family this week.  More will be available next Sabbath.

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.

Membership Transfer Requests (1^st Reading):

To Nashville First –

•  Ann Foster from New Life SDA Church (Nashville, TN)

•  Derek Riethmeier from Detroit Metropolitan SDA Church (Plymouth, MI)

•  Iris Reithmeier (Lisbeth Melgar) from Detroit Metropolitan SDA Church (Plymouth, MI)

•  Crystal Wilenski from Clifton SDA Church (Cincinnati, OH)

Profession of Faith –

•  Prince Boakye from Pedu SDA Church (Cape Coast, Ghana)

•  Avelino Ceasar from Juba SDA Church (Juba, Sudan)

•  Rebecca Joseph from Juba SDA Church (Juba, Sudan)

From Nashville First –

•  Marcela Bunn to Madison Campus SDA Church

•  Matthew Lucio to Dyersburg SDA Church

•  Connie Rogers to Madison Campus SDA Church

•  Karl Rogers to Madison Campus SDA Church

•  Marcela Tucker to Madison Campus SDA Church

•  Brian Tucker to Madison Campus SDA Church

SERMON NOTES: