February 19, 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: “Resilience“

Adult Classes

Teacher Location

Ann Foster/Thomas Hardy/Chito Pugao 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: Mimi Garba

Pianist: Pat Ward

A/V Operator: Ken Johns / Brent Cordis / Skylar Davis

Greeters: Nikii Mitchell & Sue Phillips

Deacon for the day: Kwabena Addison-Amponsah / Nate Hatcher, Sr.

The Church at Worship

Welcome Home Sabbath – Karen Adventists

God Invites Us to Worship

In Songs of Worship and Preparation Chito Pugao

“We Sing Alleluia”

In the Call to Worship:

Give thanks to the Lord! Call for him to help you! Tell all the nations what He has done! Tell them how great He is! Sing to the Lord because of the great things He has done.

We Respond

In Praise “Majesty”

In Invocation Pastor Melvin Santos

In Hymn of Praise #29

“Sing Praise to God”

God Invites Us to Confess

In Congregational Song

“Soften My Heart, Lord”

In Prayer Dexter Shurney

In Baptism

God Invites Us to Respond

In Giving Our Offerings Thomas Hardy

First Church Budget

Focus on Ministry Carol Reynolds & Pastor Jimmy Schwe

In the Children’s Story Sheryl Gentle

We Receive Him

Through Special Music Marceline Sibomana,

Mawazo Nowadia, and Enide Lyankunze Mukanoher

(These women attend First Church weekly and are sisters. Their parents come from Burundi but they were born in Rwanda and grew up in Tanzania. They were born into the Adventist Church and are waiting eagerly for Jesus’ second coming.)

Through the Word Pastor Melvin Santos

“The Great Church Expansion Movement, Part 4”

We Depart to Serve

With His Song #214

“We Have This Hope”

With His Benediction

(Please be seated following the Benediction)

Postlude Paul Agyemang

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

Total received for Month $ 3,453

Month to date +/- - $8,012

Year 2010 +/- - $10,635

NEXT WEEK’S OFFERING: Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance

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: 5:31 pm Sunset Next Friday: 5:38 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – February , 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.

Next Week

Sabbath, February 29^th

• Music ministry of Steve Darmody during the worship service. This would be a wonderful service to invite family and friends to attend with you!

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

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

• February 19 – Youth/adult choir

• February 26 – Primary Bell 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

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:

Pattie Casillas, Avelino Cesar and Rebeccca Joseph, children Deborah, Ruth and Andrew, Werner and Gracie Chaplin

Prayer Requests for Healing:

• Joan Wilson – waiting for test results on biopsy, daughter of Betty Underhill

• Jimmy Underhill – Spiritual and physical healing, further cancer testing on Feb. 28.

• Reneé Carver – continuing complications following delivery of baby

• Doris Monk – recent surgery, gallbladder & tumor on kidney, sister of Debbie Keeling

• Mina Angwenyi – recovery, hip replacement surgery

• Ruth Swain – health recovery

• 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

• Nate Hatcher, Jr. – Health concerns

• Baby Michael Copeland – premature birth complications

• Clyde Ward – kidney disease, on dialysis

• Rose Marie Khulman – health concerns

• Richard Andal- recovery from stroke, father of Ric Andal

Prayer Requests (other):

• Pastor Santos – Dissertation defense scheduled in 2 weeks

• Chito and Myrna Pugao and family as the mourn the death of Chito’s father Ramone.

• The family and friends of Gary Miles as the grieve his death

• James Orodo Aluoch – Special Request

• Chris & Mary Tucker and family of Chris’s step-father Norman Stephens, as they grieve his death on December 18^th.

• Judy & Rod Baughman, the family and friends of David Oakes as they grieve his death.

• Todd Wright – Sabbath work issues

Announcements for February 19, 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.

Next Sabbath, February 29, will feature the music ministry of Steve Darmody during the worship service. Steve Darmody’s award-winning baritone voice has been called “the milk chocolate voice of gospel music.” He appears often on networks around the country such as TBN, 3ABN, HopeTV, and many others. He has appeared on all the Family Reunion videos, is featured on The Quiet Hour’s “Windows of Hope” telecast. Steve will present a concert during our worship service and hope you will invite your family and friends to attend with you next Sabbath.

HEAL Ministries will have their monthly meeting on Thursday, March 3^rd from 6 – 8 p.m. in the library. The featured topic for March is Respiratory System – Keeping a healthy respiratory system and naturally managing some of the ailments that attack the system. Ask your respiratory questions through the month by e-mailing Lynette or Rhonda at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . All are welcome to attend the meetings. Donations are accepted.

Discipleship Basic Training with Pastor Santos - Due to the special events with the Burma group and the upcoming Discover Prophecy evangelistic meetings, our Discipleship Basic Training will resume in April.

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.”

DISCOVERY PROPHECY SEMINAR

MARK YOUR CALENDARS – Discover Prophecy Seminar: March 5 – April 2, with Pastor Brian McMahon. Please be thinking about who you can invite to this important outreach program.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We need volunteers for the upcoming meetings with Brian McMahon. We need greeters, ushers, prayer team, children ministry, registrars and more.  Please contact Jack Azor, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , (615-812-7605), Juliet Santos, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Derek Riethmeier, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information. If you are interested in helping with the children, please contact Laura Breece, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Sign-up sheets are available with this bulletin and in the foyer.

VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION MEETING with Pastor Brian McMahon is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2^nd at 7:00 p.m. at the church. All volunteers are asked to be at this meeting for important information and tips.

INVITATIONS AVAILABLE: We have attractive invitations to the Discovery Prophesy Seminar available for you to give to your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and anyone else in your life that would be interested in attending. Please take some with you – go light your world!

The Adventist Community Services Center –

Please continue to remember our local ACS Center by bringing non-perishable food items each week. The Center is critically low on stock right now. They are also in need of:

Pots and pans

Silverware (especially forks)

Hygiene items (travel size)

Disposable razors

Tooth paste

Tooth brushes

Feminine products

Fitted sheets (all sizes)

Bath towels

Wash cloths