April 30, 2011

The Church at Study

9:15am – 10:30am

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

Clothing Imagery in the Bible

This week’s lesson: “The Priestly Garments of Grace“

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

10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Coordinator Nate Hatcher, Sr.

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: Stephanie Mazza

Pianist:

A/V Operator: Brent Cordis / Lauren Andal / Ken Hreha

Greeters: Musa & Mimi Garba

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

The Church at Worship

God Invites Us to Worship

In Songs of Worship and Preparation Carol Bibee

“We Sing Alleluia”

* In the Call to Worship:

“Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” Psalm 29:1, 2.

We Respond

* In Praise “Majesty”

In Invocation Orville Biganll

In Hymn of Praise #73

“Holy, Holy, Holy”

God Invites Us to Confess

** In Congregational Song

“Soften My Heart, Lord”

In Prayer Thomas Hardy

God Invites Us to Respond

In Giving Our Offerings Ann Foster

First Church Budget

In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving

“Great Are You Lord”

In the Children’s Story Laura Breece

We Receive Him

Through Scripture Reading Beverly Dixon

Genesis 2:19, 20

Through Special Music Kelly Holder

Through the Word Orville Bignall

“What’s In a Name?”

We Depart to Serve

* With His Song #248

“O, How I Love Jesus”

* With His Benediction

(Please be seated following the Benediction)

Postlude Paul Agyemang

* Congregation please stand ** Congregation please kneel

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

Budget for the month $10,644

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: 7:33 pm Sunset Next Friday: 7:39 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – April 30, 2011

• Orville Bignall will be our speaker today.

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

Next Week

Sunday, May 1^st

• WORK BEE starting at 7:30 a.m.

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

Wednesday, May 4^th

• Creation vs. Evolution Seminar at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. Invite your family and friends!

Thursday, May 5^th

• HEAL Ministries monthly meeting has been canceled.

• Creation vs. Evolution Seminar at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. Invite your family and friends!

Friday, May 6^th

• Creation vs. Evolution Seminar at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. Invite your family and friends!

Sabbath, May 7^th

• Elder James Zachrison will be our guest speaker.

• VOP Discover Bible School Rally from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in the sanctuary.

• Creation vs. Evolution Seminar at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary. Invite your family and friends!

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule Please meet at 9:00 a.m. prompt in the music room.

• April 30 – No practice

• May 7 - no practice

• May 14 – Jr/primary bell choir

Church Choir Schedule – No rehearsal today.

Children’s Church Schedule

Children’s Church will be held on the following dates:

• TODAY - 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:

Ann Foster

Eva Fowler

Beverly (Trevor) Friedberg

Prayer Requests for Healing: 

• John Brinson – Cancer

• Dr. Jerry Maynard – recovery, health issues

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

• 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): 

• Santos family as they travel home from Michigan following Pastor’s graduation.

• Jimbo Moran – to join Arlene and baby in Nashville soon; process being delayed.

• James Orodo Aluoch – Special Request

• Friend of Tom Slark, trapped by drug addiction cycle

• Élan DeGroat – loss of home in flood, reconstruction process

• Todd Wright – Sabbath work issues

• Our Bible study interests

• First Church members/attendees seeking employment

Announcements for April 30, 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.

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.

Graduates: The church family would like to celebrate our graduates in a special way during our worship service next Sabbath, May 7^th. If you or a member of your family will be graduating from 8^th grade, 12^th grade, college or post-graduate degrees, please contact the Church Office or Marjie Johns ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) immediately.

SPRING WORKBEE: Sunday, May 1^st, 7:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. We are inviting all members and friends to come and help us clean and beautify the Lord’s “House.” Things to bring:  brooms, dustpans, garden tools of all kinds (hedge clippers, pruners, shovels, rakes, etc), wheelbarrows, cleaning rags, buckets, gloves, step stools and ladders (up to 6 -8').

The next C.O.O.L. (Crochet Out Of Love) meeting is tomorrow, May 1^st 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.

May 4^th - 8^th:  Creation vs. Evolution Seminar at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary – A great event to invite your family and friends to attend with you. We are looking for volunteers – Greeters and registrars are needed. Please see Derek Riethmeier or Jack Azor today to sign-up.

Creation vs. Evolution Seminar Flyers- we need volunteers to take the flyers to several university campuses and hand them out.

HEAL Ministries monthly meeting for May, 5^th is cancelled. The next meeting will be Thursday, June 2^nd from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the library.

Next Sabbath, May 7^th: Voice of Prophecy Discover Bible School Rally at Nashville First Church with Pastor Jim Zachrison as our guest speaker. Pastor Zachrison is special assistant in the Bible school, a retired Sabbath School and Personal Ministries Director for the General Conference. Joining him will be Ed Cox, Field Representative, VOP East. There will be an afternoon meeting (2:00 – 3:30 p.m.) in the sanctuary.

MOTHERS' DAY BRUNCH on Sunday May 8^th, at 9:30 a.m. for ALL our ladies! You are cordially invited to a special Mother's Day Brunch hosted by the men and children of Nashville First.  Please RSVP on the pink sheet in the foyer located on the table across from the kitchen door.  All men and children are needed as chefs, servers, and entertainers.

You are invited to a bridal shower for Veronique Jean-Philippe on Sunday, May 15^th at 2:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall.

Welcome Baby Moran! Arlene safely delivered baby John Jameson on Friday, April 22 at 11:45 a.m. The baby weighed in at 6 lbs., 15 oz. and measured 19 ½ inches long. Mother and baby are doing well. Please keep Arlene’s husband in your prayers that he will be able join his family soon. His process to enter the country is being delayed.

Vacation Bible School will be held July 10 – 14 from 6:00 - 8:30pm. This year’s program is entitled “Shake It Up Café.” If you would like to help with VBS, please contact Laura Breece.

Camp Meeting for the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference starts Friday, May 27^th on the campus of Highland Academy (211 Highland Circle Drive, Portland, TN 37148). We encourage everyone to attend camp meeting, if only for Sabbath.

In conjunction with camp meeting, Pioneer Valley Academy Alumni who live in the mid-south area are invited for an Old Fashioned Potluck Luncheon and mini-reunion on Sabbath, May 28 at 1:30 p.m. at the Oasis SDA Church (703 S. Broadway, Portland, TN 37148). Contact Bonnie Burnham Armantrout ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Jeanne Nickerson Aldrich ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) for more information.