June 11, 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 Wedding Garment“

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....................................................................... 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:................................................... Kwabena Addison-Amponsah

Pianist:............................................................................................................... Doug Pratt

A/V Operator:.................................................... Brian Wilcox/ Ric Andal / Ken Hreha

Greeters:........................................................................................... Peter & Danett Guy

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

The Church at Worship

God Invites Us to Worship

In Songs of Worship and Preparation Chito Pugao

“We Sing Alleluia”

* In the Call to Worship:

“Praise is rightfully Yours, God, in Zion. Vows to You must be fulfilled, for You answer prayer. All flesh must come to You with all its sins; though our faults overpower us, You blot them out” Psalm 65:1-3.

We Respond

* In Praise “Majesty”

In Invocation Pastor Melvin Santos

In Hymn of Praise #202

“Hail Him the King of Glory”

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 Dean Flint

Multilingual Ministries/Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries

In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving

“Great Are You Lord”

In the Children’s Story Betty Bolton

We Receive Him

Through Scripture Reading Brian Wilcox

2 Timothy 1:9

Through Special Music Patricia Matsinhe

Through the Word Pastor Melvin Santos

Daniel and Revelation Series: “Courage Under Fire”

We Depart to Serve

* With His Song #619

“Lead On, O King Eternal”

* With His Benediction

(Please be seated following the Benediction)

Postlude Doug Pratt

*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

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

Expenses incurred in May $7,583

Offerings received in May $6,024

- $1,559

Offerings received vs. Expense Incurred for 2011: - $9,217

NEXT WEEK’S OFFERING: Nashville First Church Budget Account

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: 8:04 pm Sunset Next Friday: 8:07 pm

Church Calendar

TODAY – June 11, 2011

• All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services. All Invited!!
• Small Groups on a Mission training presented by Don James, associate director of NADEI, 2:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Madison Campus SDA Church

Next Week

Sunday, June 12

v Small Groups on a Mission training presented by Don James, associate director of NADEI, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at Madison Campus SDA Church

v CHIP Alumni meeting at 3:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall.

Wednesday, June 15

v Scripture Study Series resumes with Pastor Santos; 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.

Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule

• No bell choir practice through June 18

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:

• June 18
• July 30

Social Committee Calendar of Events

Sunday, July 3 – Independence Day Celebration Block Party at the church, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Vegi-burgers and dogs, roasted corn, cotton candy and home-made ice cream will be served. There will be activities for both adults and kids. Come and play; bring your friends and family with you!

“The Family that plays together stays together!”

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:

Peter & Danett Guy, children Travis and Danielle

Joan Harden

Thomas & Charlotte Hardy, daughters Shannon and Lauren

Prayer Requests for Healing:

· Jarrett Wilson, liver transplant surgery, father of 2 small children, nephew of Shauneille Sherifa

· Stella Swilley - broken leg, recovering in nursing home

· Mark Fitzhugh –cancer of the kidney, Raylene Wilcox’s other boss

· Eucabeth Ongau – has had surgery to fuse ankle, praying for complete recovery

· Jeff Wilson – diagnosed with Lyme’s disease; son-in-law of Betty Underhill

· John Brinson – Cancer

· Dr. Jerry Maynard – recovery, health issues

· Mina Angwenyi – recovery, hip replacement surgery

· Ruth Swain – health recovery

· 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):

· The family of Craig Tucker’s daughter, Lavonne Box, as they grieve her death on May 27. Please keep Craig & June, Winston & Martha and the whole family in your prayers.

· Vacation Bible School – July 10 - 14

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

· James Orodo Aluoch – special request

· Todd Wright – Sabbath work issues

Announcements for June 11, 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.

Scripture Study Series with Pastor Santos resumes this Wednesday evening, June 15^th at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. Come join us for this exciting Bible study. Bring your Bible, pen, notebook and a friend!

Adventist Youth Ministries is launching weekly meetings starting next Sabbath, June 18^thafter fellowship lunch, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The purpose of the meetings is to help our young generation take an active part in the church, the community and the work of the worldwide Adventist Youth Society in taking the Gospel to the entire world! The topic for June 18^th is IDENTITY – Who Are You? Regardless of earthly relationships and our national/cultural loyalties, we are “Sons and Daughters of God!” Please join us!

Men’s Day Brunch will be held on Father’s Day Sunday, June 19^th at 9:30 a.m. in the church fellowship hall. Please let us know if you are planning to attend so we will know how many to prepare for; sign-up sheets are available in the foyer on the table outside the kitchen door.

The Social Committee invites you to an Independence Day Block Party on Sunday, July 3, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the church. We are planning to have live music, a bounce house for the kids, and yummy summer foods! Not only is this event for church family fellowship, but we would like this to be the foundation that will grow into an annual outreach to the neighborhood around the church. We can introduce vegetarian foods, cooking school events, Vacation Bible School, Bible studies, basic SDA health principals . . . the possibilities are endless! We will need the help of the whole family. Please see sign-up insert in this bulletin.

HEAL Ministries will host a monthly meeting on Thursday, July 7th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the library. The featured topic for July is The Mind/Body Connection: What is the connection between emotions and disease, or is there any? Does your heart sense your emotional state? Is there a way out? Negative emotions can intensify a variety of health threats. Come join us and let us explore. 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. . All are welcome to attend.

The Adventist Community Services Center – Remember, we are responsible for keeping the following food items in stock: 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 have 14 copies of the Angel Food cookbooks left. If you’ve wanted to get a copy for yourself or a friend, don’t wait - when they’re gone, they’re gone! To get your copy, make a check payable to the Church in the amount of $14 per book, put in an offering envelope marked “cookbook” and give to Raylene Wilcox or drop in offering plate. The next week your cookbook will be in the foyer with your name on it. All proceeds go to the Youth Department.

Register TODAY for Vacation Bible School; July 10 – 14, from 6:00 - 8:30pm. This year’s program is entitled “Shake It Up Café.” Please register your child(ren) today at the table in the foyer. If you would like to help with VBS, please contact Laura Breece immediately. Please keep VBS in your prayers!!!