April 2, 2011

The Church at Study

9:15 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

Lesson Study Guide (2^nd Quarter 2011): Garments of Grace

Clothing Imagery in the Bible

This week’s lesson: “In the Loom of Heaven“

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) Music Room

New Believers Class (Pastor/Agyemang/Shurney) Fellowship Hall

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

10:15 a.m. – 10:25 a.m.

Coordinator Brian Wilcox

Welcome Pastor Melvin Santos

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: Paul Agyemang

A/V Operator: Brian Wilcox / Lauren Andal / Ken Hreha

Greeters: Thomas & Charlotte Hardy

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

The Church at Worship

God Invites Us to Worship

In Song of Preparation Pat Ward

“We Sing Alleluia”

In the Call to Worship:

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.

We Respond

In Praise “Majesty”

In Invocation Pastor Melvin Santos

In Hymn of Praise #341

“To God Be the Glory”

God Invites Us to Confess

In Congregational Song

“Soften My Heart, Lord”

In Prayer Pastor Melvin Santos

God Invites Us to Respond

In Presentation of Baptismal Certificates

In Worship in Music Ridgetop Elementary

In Giving Our Offerings Horace Swain

First Church Budget

Offertory: Ridgetop Elementary

We Receive Him

Through Baptism (See Insert)

Through Hymn of Praise #633

“When We All Get to Heaven”

Welcome to the Church Pastor Brian McMahon

Prayer of Consecration

We Depart to Serve

With His Song

“Family of God”

With His Benediction Pastor Melvin Santos

(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 / E-mail: 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 $ 7,016

Month to date +/- - $4,449

Year 2010 +/- - $12,844

NEXT WEEK’S OFFERING:

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: 7:07 pm Sunset Next Friday: 7:15 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – April 2, 2011

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

Next Week

Sunday, April 3^rd

• COOL group meeting from 11:00am – 1:00 p.m. in the library.

• Baby Shower for Arlene Moran at 2:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Please help us welcome Arlene’s baby boy!

Monday, April 4^th

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

Wednesday, April 6^th

• Scripture Study Series with Pastor Santos at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.

Thursday, April 7^th

• HEAL Ministries monthly meeting at 6:00 p.m. in the library

Sabbath, April 9^th

• Communion celebrated during the worship service

• Discipleship Training with Pastor Santos at 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the sanctuary

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

• April 2 – Youth/adult choir

• April 9 - Youth/adult choir

• April 16 - Youth/adult choir

• April 23 - 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 30

• 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:

James Endsley

Annette Escue

James & Cynthia Escue

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): 

• Newly baptized members

• Bible study interests

• 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 April 2, 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 next C.O.O.L. (Crochet Out Of Love) meeting is tomorrow, April 4^th from 11:00am -1:00pm in the library. Bring your yarn, hooks, patterns, any projects you have ready and your own lunch/snacks and drink.

You are invited to a baby shower for Arlene Moran tomorrow, 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.

The Church Board will be meeting on Monday, April 4^th at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall.

Scripture Study Series with Pastor Santos, “Preparation for the Final Crisis,” Wednesday evenings through May 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. Come join us for this exciting Bible study. Bring your Bible, pen, notebook and a friend!

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.

From the Inside Out Family Prayer Conference at Indian Creek Camp will be April 8 – 10 (registration deadline April 4). Registration forms can be found on the table under the bulletin board in the foyer.

Discipleship Basic and Advanced Training with Pastor Santos (required for all newly baptized or rebaptized members). Learn the 4 levels or Discipleship: Commitment to Christ, Commitment to the Body of Christ, Commitment to Ministry, Commitment to be a Lay Minister. Sessions will be Sabbath, April 9^th, April 23^rd, May 7^th (TBD), May 21^st from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.

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!

We give our deepest thanks to those who helped with and attended the Prophecy Seminar so faithfully night by night. Your dedication, kindness, encouragement, gifts of love and support made us feel very welcomed and at home. Thank you!

~ With Christian Love,

Brian, Heidi and Kelly McMahon