February 26, 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: “Self-esteem“

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:............................................................................. Michael Santos

Pianist:.......................................................................................................... Myrna Pugao

A/V Operator:................................................................................ Vic Briggs / Ric Andal

Greeters:........................................................................................... Mike & Carol Bibee

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

The Church at Worship

God Invites Us to Worship

In Songs of Worship and Preparation                    Kellie Azor & Friends

“Surely the Presence” 

In the Call to Worship:

I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing to You among the nations.  For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens, and Your truth unto the clouds.  Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be above all the earth.

We Respond

In Praise                                     “Majesty”

In Invocation                                                                                     Brian Wilcox

In Hymn of Praise                                                                                           #230

“All Glory, Laud, and Honor”

God Invites Us to Confess

In Congregational Song

“Soften My Heart, Lord”

In Prayer                                                                                           Orville Bignall 

God Invites Us to Respond

In Giving Our Offerings                                                             Miryam Poole

Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance

In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving                                         Brian Wilcox

“Great Are You Lord”

In the Children’s Story                                                                 Laura Breece

We Receive Him

Through Scripture Reading                                                  Michael Reeves

Psalm 95:1 - 3

Through Music                                                                                Steve Darmody

We Depart to Serve

With His Benediction                                                                    Orville Bignall

(Please be seated following the Benediction)

Postlude Doug Pratt

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

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: 5:38 pm                   Sunset Next Friday: 5:45 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – February 26, 2011

• Steve Darmody in concert during our worship service
• All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services.  All Invited!!

Next Week

Through – March 2^nd

v Pastor Santos will be in Michigan, defending his doctorate dessertation.  Please keep him in your prayers.  

Monday, February 28^th

v Worship Committee meeting in the library at 5:00p.m. 

v Church Board meeting has been canceled this month. 

Wednesday, March 2^nd

v Seminar orientation meeting with Pastor Brian McMahon at 7:00pm at the church.  Everyone is  invited to this informational meeting, especially volunteers who will be working at the seminar. 

Thursday, March 3^rd

v H.E.A.L. meeting (topic: respiratory system), 6 – 8 p.m. in the library 

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

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

•  February 26 – Primary choir

•  March 5 - Youth/adult choir

•  March 12 – Primary choir

•  March 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 - TODAY 
• 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:

Irene Chunn, Joseph Clough, David & Stephanie Conrad

Prayer Requests for Healing:

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

•  Jimmy Underhill

•  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

•    – 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 –

•  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 

Announcements for February 26, 2011

Children’s Church today!  We will meet for children’s story in the sanctuary and go directly to the fellowship hall for the rest of the church service. Children ages 4 – 12 are invited to join us.  If your child is under the age of 4, they are welcome to attend with a parent or adult guardian.

Today, immediately following the pastoral prayer, those who would like to be part of an intercessory prayer group to pray again over the requests brought to the elder’s Bible are invited to meet in the Swahili classroom (upstairs right) with Mike Hite.

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.

Pastor Santos is out of town through March 2^nd.   He will be in Michigan at Andrews University Monday – Wednesday to defend his doctorate dissertation.  Please keep him in your prayers.   If you have a need during this time, please contact one of the elders.

Worship Committee will meet Monday, February 28^th at 5:00 p.m. in the library.

Church Board meeting scheduled for Monday, February 28^th is canceled.

HEAL Ministries will have their monthly meeting on Thursday, March 3^rd from 6 – 8 p.m. in the library.  The featured topic is the Respiratory System – Keeping a healthy respiratory system and naturally managing some of the ailments that attack the system.  Ask your respiratory questions throughout 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.

If you are interested in joining an SDA Geocaching Club please e-mail Ada Brown @

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.”

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. 

From the Pugao family to the First Church family:

“We would like to thank you for your expressions of sympathy in the passing of our father Ramon Pugao.  You will never realize how much your prayers, beautiful flowers and your messages of comfort touched our hearts and led us closer to God in our hour of grief.  On February 10, 2011, we buried our father but also celebrated his life and his accomplishments. He has left a void in our life.  However, we have the promise that it's just a matter of time when we shall see him again.  We look forward to the time when Jesus comes and reunites us.”