March 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: “Partnership With Jesus“

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 Orville Bignall

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: Kwabena Addison-Amponsah

Pianist: Doug Pratt

A/V Operator: Vic Briggs / Brent Cordis / Skylar Davis

Greeters: Todd & Melody Kurzynske

Deacon for the day: Jeff Marcell / Kwabena Addison-Amponsah

The Church at Worship

God Invites Us to Worship

In Songs of Worship and Preparation Kellie Azor & Friends

“We Sing Alleluia”

In the Call to Worship:

To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul; in You I trust, O my God. Show me Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths; guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long.

We Respond

In Praise “Majesty”

In Invocation Pastor Brian McMahon

In Hymn of Praise #12

“Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”

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 Nate Hatcher, Sr.

Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance

In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving

“Great Are You Lord”

In Dedicating our Children Pastor Melvin Santos

In the Children’s Story Sheryl Gentle

We Receive Him

Through Scripture Reading John Jones

I Peter 1:6 – 9; 4:12 – 14; 5:4

Through Special Music First Church Choir

Through the Word Pastor Brian McMahon

“The Lost Coin – Pastor McMahon’s Personal Conversion Story”

We Depart to Serve

With His Song #569

“Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior”

With His Benediction

(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

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: 7:03 pm Sunset Next Friday: 7:09 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – March 26, 2011

• All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services. All Invited!!

• Discover Prophecy seminar – “Heaven – Is it For Real?” at 7:00pm at the church.

Next Week

Monday, March 28

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

• Church Board meeting rescheduled April 4^th at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall

Wednesday, March 30

Bible study series with Pastor Santos at 7:00 pm

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

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

• March 26 – Primary choir

• April 2 – 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:

• April 2

• May 21

• June 18

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 in prayer this week:

Jared & Camille Dorris, children Noah, Seth & Riley

Henry Dunn

Gabrielle Elliott

Prayer Requests for Healing: 

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

• 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

• 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): 

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

• James Orodo Aluoch – Special Request

• Todd Wright – Sabbath work issues

Announcements for March 26, 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.

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.

The following meetings are scheduled for this Monday, March 28^th:

• Worship Committee will meet at 5:00 p.m. in the library

• Church Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall

HEAL Ministries will host a monthly meeting on Thursday, April 7^th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the library. The featured topic for April is the Digestive System - Keeping a healthy digestive system and naturally managing some of the ailments that attack the system. Ask your questions through the month by emailing Lynette/Rhonda at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Handouts and samples will be available. All are welcome to attend.

Sermon Copies: We have available upon request copies of sermons presented each Sabbath. Please find the clip-board in the foyer on the lectern 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. 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.

Discipleship Basic Training with Pastor Santos on Sabbath, April 9, at 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm in the sanctuary. Open to all members and especially those who have been newly baptized in the last 2 years.

You Are Invited!

You are invited to a baby shower for Arlene Moran on Sunday, April 3^rd at 2:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Arlene and her husband are expecting a baby boy. Arlene is registered at Target and Baby’s R Us.

You are invited to a baby shower for Amy & Brent Cordis on Sunday, April 17^th at 2:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Amy and Brent are expecting a baby girl. They are registered at JC Penny, Target, and Wal-mart.

The Adventist Community Services Center – Food Stocks Critically Low! Nashville First Church contributes an average of 8 food items per week . . . that is not enough food to feed a single 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, others must step in and cover for us . . . Please bring in 3 or 4 cans each week to help us keep “our” shelves stocked!