March 12, 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: “Freedom From Addictions“

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:........... Norma Sheffield

A/V Operator:........... Jeff Marcell / Ric Andal

Greeters:...........

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

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:

I will sing of Your strength, in the morning I will sing of Your love; for You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.  O my Strength, I sing praise to You; You, O God, are my fortress, my loving God.

We Respond

In Praise                                     “Majesty”

In Invocation                  Pastor Brian McMahon

In Hymn of Praise                              (See Insert)

“All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name”

God Invites Us to Confess

In Congregational Song

“Soften My Heart, Lord”

In Prayer                  Pastor Melvin Santos

God Invites Us to Respond

In Giving Our Offerings                              Dexter Shurney

Religious Liberty

In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving

“Great Are You Lord”

In the Children’s Story                  Laura Breece

We Receive Him

Through Scripture Reading                  Dana Grant

Ephesians 4:29-32

Through Special Music                  Marjorie Ward

Through the Word                  Pastor Brian McMahon

“How to Overcome Bitterness”

We Depart to Serve

With His Song                                      #262

“There’s A Sweet Spirit”

With His Benediction

(Please be seated following the Benediction)

Postlude Marjie Johns

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                  February                  $  5,692

Total received for March                                    $  2,855

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: 5:51 pm Sunset Next Friday: 6:57 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – March 12, 2011

• All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services.  All Invited!!
• Discover Prophecy seminar – “God’s Test of Loyalty” at 5:00 p.m.  “The Subject That Satan Hates” starts at 7:00 p.m. at the church.

Next Week

Sunday, March 13

v Daylight Savings Time begins . . . Set your clocks forward one hour!

Monday, March 14

v Discover Prophecy Seminar – “The Most Amazing Bible Prophecy” at 7:00pm

Tuesday, March 15

v Discover Prophecy Seminar – “Bible Secrets to Good Health” at 7:00pm

Thursday, March 17

v Discover Prophecy Seminar – “Unmasking the Antichrist” at 7:00pm

Friday, March 18

v Discover Prophecy Seminar – “The Mark of the Beast and the Seal of God” at 7:00pm

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

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

• March 12 – Primary choir

• March 19 – Youth/adult choir

• March 26 – Primary 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:

• TODAY - March 12 
• April 2 
• May 21 

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:

Rachel Curtis

Vincent & Theryll Davis, children Avery, Julian, Camaren, Skyler & Sydnei

Richard DeArk

Prayer Requests for Healing:

•  Dotty Cooper – cancer, additional tests scheduled, mother of Lynda Briggs

•  Joan Wilson – surgery done; all cancer removed (praise God!)

•  Jimmy Underhill – Spiritual and physical healing, latest testing showed no cancer (praise God!)

•  Judy Sparks – Cancer, in radiation treatment, Tom Slark’s mother

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

•  Mina Angwenyi – full 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):

•  Chito and Myrna Pugao

•  James Orodo Aluoch – Special Request

•  Todd Wright – Sabbath work issues 

Announcements for March 12, 2011

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.

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’s offering is for Religious Liberty.  The annual Religious Liberty Offering helps ensure that we are free to practice our faith and share the Gospel as God has instructed.  And it is because of your sponsorship of Liberty magazine subscriptions that thought leaders everywhere are better informed on and more responsive to issues of religious freedom.  The Public Affairs & Religious Liberty arm of the Seventh-day Adventist church is dedicated to ensuring our ability to obey God, follow our conscience, and share the good news of His return with others!

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.

Child Dedication service scheduled for Sabbath, March 26^th: If you are interested in having your child dedicated to the Lord during the worship service, please contact Pastor Santos as soon as possible.

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 labels and place in the drop-box located in the foyer.  Reimbursed labels will go to the quarterly Sabbath School mission project.

The Adventist Community Services Center – Food Stocks Critically Low!

Nashville First Church contributes and average of 8 food items per week . . . that is not enough food to feed a family!  First Church is responsible for stocking the following food items:

Canned beans (all varieties)

Canned tomatoes

Canned fruit

Canned soup

Canned pasta sauce

Pasta noodles (i.e. spaghetti)

When we don’t do our part, our sister congregations must step in and cover for us . . . Please help us keep “our” shelves stocked!!

The ACS Thrift Store will be open this Sunday March 13^th 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.  Your donations will also be accepted during these hours.