September 24, 2011
The Church at Study
9:15am – 10:30am
Lesson Study Guide (3rd Quarter 2011): Worship
This week’s lesson: “Worship in the Book of Revelation“
Adult Classes
Location
Ann Foster/Thomas Hardy/Chito Pugao Sanctuary - Front
André Wilson/Josef Poole Sanctuary - Back
Magaria Waitara/Musa Garba(Swahili/English Class) Upstairs Right
The Circle (Gibran/Wilcox) Music Room
New Believers Class (Pastor/Poole) 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) 9th 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: Stephanie Mazza
Pianist: Doug Pratt
A/V Operator: Vic Briggs / Brent Cordis / Greg Mazza
Greeters: Nikii Mitchell & Sue Phillips
Deacon for the day: Nate Hatcher, Sr. / Jeff Marcell
The Church at Worship
God Invites Us to Worship
In Songs of Worship and Preparation Léolène Jean
“We Sing Alleluia”
*In the Call to Worship:
“Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with honor and majesty, who cover Yourself with light as with a garment. Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain” Psalm 104:1-2.
We Respond
* In Praise “Majesty”
In Invocation Pastor Melvin Santos
In Hymn of Praise #86
“How Great Thou Art”
God Invites Us to Confess
** In Congregational Song
“Soften My Heart, Lord”
In Prayer Ken Johns
God Invites Us to Respond
In Giving Our Offerings Betty Underhill
Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance
In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving
“Great Are You Lord”
In the Children’s Story Patricia Matsinhe
We Receive Him
Through Scripture Reading
Daniel 8:13-14
Through Special Music Church Choir
Through the Word Pastor Melvin Santos
Daniel & Revelation Series: “When Judgment Begins”
We Depart to Serve
* With His Song #604
(1st & 3rd verses)
“We Know Not the Hour”
* 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. "> 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
Orville Bignall, Head Elder (home) 876-5021 / (cell) 512-9193
Nate Hatcher, Sr., 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 $10,644. 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 Total received for Month $ 4,979 Month to date +/- - $5,685 Year 2011 +/- - $28,214 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: 6:43 pm Sunset Next Friday: 6:32 pm Church Calendar TODAY – September 24, 2011All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services. All Invited!!Flyers to the Neighborhood – enjoy a nice Sabbath afternoon walk around the neighborhoods surrounding the church passing out Prophecies Decoded seminar flyers.Leadership Team Meeting with Pastor Santos at 2:00 p.m. in the library.Next Week Monday, September 26th Worship Committee meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the library.Church Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall.Wednesday, September 28thProphecies Decoded volunteer/staff meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.Friday, September 30th Prophecies Decoded seminar starts at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary.Sabbath, October 1stProphecies Decoded seminar continues, night 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary.Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule –9:00 a.m. in the music room September 24 – Teen/Adult choirOctober 1 – Primary children’s choirOctober 8 – Teen/Adult choirChildren’s Church Schedule Children’s Church will be held on the following dates:October 22November 5December 3Upcoming Events at Nashville First: September 30 – October 29, Prophecies Decoded Seminar via satellite downlink, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.COOL (Crochet Out of Love) group meeting, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the library. All are welcome to attend. 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:Sandra LunaSheri MadduxJimmy Majors Prayer Requests for Healing: Linda Grow – diagnosed with leukemia while traveling through Nashville on vacation and husband, George Grow.Doug Faulkner – health concernsSoe Ya – gun shot wound to jawLois Kerwin – knee replacement Willa Morton – recovery from surgery, mother of Shauneille SherifaHeather Wood – complete recovery from stroke, daughter of Pastor Jerry & Judy RimerJarrett Wilson - liver transplant surgery, father of 2 small children, nephew of Shauneille SherifaMark Fitzhugh – cancer, Raylene Wilcox’s other bossEucabeth Ongau –fused ankle surgery, complete recoveryJohn Brinson – cancerMina Angwenyi – full recovery, hip replacement surgeryRuth Swain – health recoveryClara Johnson – health concerns, co-worker of Pat WardLynda Briggs – Hodgkin’s lymphomaNate Hatcher, Jr. – health concernsBaby Michael Copeland – premature birth complicationsClyde Ward – kidney disease, on dialysis Richard Andal - recovery from stroke, father of Ric Andal Prayer Requests (other): Family of Casey McClure (31-year old grandson of Ruth Swain) as they grieve his death this week.First Church members/attendees seeking employmentProphecy Decoded Seminar (Net ’11)Nikii Mitchell & daughters McKenzie, Ashley & Cortney – special IssueTodd Wright – Sabbath work issuesAnnouncements for September 24, 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 with set-up and clean-up of chairs, tables and floors in fellowship hall. Leadership Team meeting with Pastor Santos today at 2:00 p.m. in the library. All Leadership Team members are urged to attend this important meeting. Health Expo lifestyle screenings on Sunday, September 25th, 11am – 4pm, 403 Gallatin Pike, Madison, 37115. Free screenings include blood pressure reading, body fat reading, lung strength (spirometry) and cardiovascular system (step test). You and your family are invited to participate. Meetings scheduled for this Monday, September 26th:Worship Committee meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the library.Church Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall. General volunteer/staff meeting for the Prophecies Decoded seminar is scheduled for Wednesday, September 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. All staff and volunteers are urged to attend this important organizational meeting. September 30 – October 29: Prophecies Decoded seminar presented by Dr. Ron Clouzet, September 30th – October 29th, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. This satellite downlink presentation we be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday evenings. VOLUNTEERS are needed during the Prophecies Decoded seminars. Please contact Derek Riethmeier (248-225-7702 or ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. %29"> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Junlan Jiang ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) with your availability to help. Volunteer forms are located in the foyer. Women’s Retreat: September 30 – October 5 (Brenda Walsh) at Indian Creek Camp. For retreat and registration information please visit www.kytn.net or call the Women’s Ministry Department (615-859-1391). Prayer Group: Every Monday morning, there is a prayer support group that meets by phone. Our focus is for our contacts and Bible interests. It is free and meets 6:00 - 7:00 a.m. Some pray from their cell phones as they are driving to work. The call in number is 219-509-8222 and the pin number is 6602098#. When you are connected, announce yourself and be a part of something big. We have already seen specific answers to our prayers. For more information, see Andre' or Heather Wilson or Charlotte Hardy. We are sad to announce the death of Jonathan Seward on Tuesday, September 20th. Please keep Jonathan’s family and friends in your prayers. 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. 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). We are especially low on the following items: Peanut butter, jelly, canned peaches, apples sauce, tuna and raman noodles. 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! ACSC is also in desperate need for VOLUNTEERS any time of day. The Center is open Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. They would also appreciate cash donations to help keep the pantry supplies up. You can make donations through the Church – mark your offering envelope “Community Services Center.” They will continue to take donations of clothing, furniture, household items, etc.
The Church at Study
9:15am – 10:30am
Lesson Study Guide (3rd Quarter 2011): Worship
This week’s lesson: “Worship in the Book of Revelation“
Adult Classes
Location
Ann Foster/Thomas Hardy/Chito Pugao Sanctuary - Front
André Wilson/Josef Poole Sanctuary - Back
Magaria Waitara/Musa Garba(Swahili/English Class) Upstairs Right
The Circle (Gibran/Wilcox) Music Room
New Believers Class (Pastor/Poole) 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) 9th 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: Stephanie Mazza
Pianist: Doug Pratt
A/V Operator: Vic Briggs / Brent Cordis / Greg Mazza
Greeters: Nikii Mitchell & Sue Phillips
Deacon for the day: Nate Hatcher, Sr. / Jeff Marcell
The Church at Worship
God Invites Us to Worship
In Songs of Worship and Preparation Léolène Jean
“We Sing Alleluia”
*In the Call to Worship:
“Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with honor and majesty, who cover Yourself with light as with a garment. Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain” Psalm 104:1-2.
We Respond
* In Praise “Majesty”
In Invocation Pastor Melvin Santos
In Hymn of Praise #86
“How Great Thou Art”
God Invites Us to Confess
** In Congregational Song
“Soften My Heart, Lord”
In Prayer Ken Johns
God Invites Us to Respond
In Giving Our Offerings Betty Underhill
Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance
In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving
“Great Are You Lord”
In the Children’s Story Patricia Matsinhe
We Receive Him
Through Scripture Reading
Daniel 8:13-14
Through Special Music Church Choir
Through the Word Pastor Melvin Santos
Daniel & Revelation Series: “When Judgment Begins”
We Depart to Serve
* With His Song #604
(1st & 3rd verses)
“We Know Not the Hour”
* 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. "> 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
Orville Bignall, Head Elder (home) 876-5021 / (cell) 512-9193
Nate Hatcher, Sr., 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 $10,644. 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 Total received for Month $ 4,979 Month to date +/- - $5,685 Year 2011 +/- - $28,214 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: 6:43 pm Sunset Next Friday: 6:32 pm Church Calendar TODAY – September 24, 2011All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship hall approximately 15 minutes after services. All Invited!!Flyers to the Neighborhood – enjoy a nice Sabbath afternoon walk around the neighborhoods surrounding the church passing out Prophecies Decoded seminar flyers.Leadership Team Meeting with Pastor Santos at 2:00 p.m. in the library.Next Week Monday, September 26th Worship Committee meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the library.Church Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall.Wednesday, September 28thProphecies Decoded volunteer/staff meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.Friday, September 30th Prophecies Decoded seminar starts at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary.Sabbath, October 1stProphecies Decoded seminar continues, night 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the sanctuary.Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule –9:00 a.m. in the music room September 24 – Teen/Adult choirOctober 1 – Primary children’s choirOctober 8 – Teen/Adult choirChildren’s Church Schedule Children’s Church will be held on the following dates:October 22November 5December 3Upcoming Events at Nashville First: September 30 – October 29, Prophecies Decoded Seminar via satellite downlink, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.COOL (Crochet Out of Love) group meeting, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the library. All are welcome to attend. 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:Sandra LunaSheri MadduxJimmy Majors Prayer Requests for Healing: Linda Grow – diagnosed with leukemia while traveling through Nashville on vacation and husband, George Grow.Doug Faulkner – health concernsSoe Ya – gun shot wound to jawLois Kerwin – knee replacement Willa Morton – recovery from surgery, mother of Shauneille SherifaHeather Wood – complete recovery from stroke, daughter of Pastor Jerry & Judy RimerJarrett Wilson - liver transplant surgery, father of 2 small children, nephew of Shauneille SherifaMark Fitzhugh – cancer, Raylene Wilcox’s other bossEucabeth Ongau –fused ankle surgery, complete recoveryJohn Brinson – cancerMina Angwenyi – full recovery, hip replacement surgeryRuth Swain – health recoveryClara Johnson – health concerns, co-worker of Pat WardLynda Briggs – Hodgkin’s lymphomaNate Hatcher, Jr. – health concernsBaby Michael Copeland – premature birth complicationsClyde Ward – kidney disease, on dialysis Richard Andal - recovery from stroke, father of Ric Andal Prayer Requests (other): Family of Casey McClure (31-year old grandson of Ruth Swain) as they grieve his death this week.First Church members/attendees seeking employmentProphecy Decoded Seminar (Net ’11)Nikii Mitchell & daughters McKenzie, Ashley & Cortney – special IssueTodd Wright – Sabbath work issuesAnnouncements for September 24, 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 with set-up and clean-up of chairs, tables and floors in fellowship hall. Leadership Team meeting with Pastor Santos today at 2:00 p.m. in the library. All Leadership Team members are urged to attend this important meeting. Health Expo lifestyle screenings on Sunday, September 25th, 11am – 4pm, 403 Gallatin Pike, Madison, 37115. Free screenings include blood pressure reading, body fat reading, lung strength (spirometry) and cardiovascular system (step test). You and your family are invited to participate. Meetings scheduled for this Monday, September 26th:Worship Committee meeting at 5:00 p.m. in the library.Church Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall. General volunteer/staff meeting for the Prophecies Decoded seminar is scheduled for Wednesday, September 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. All staff and volunteers are urged to attend this important organizational meeting. September 30 – October 29: Prophecies Decoded seminar presented by Dr. Ron Clouzet, September 30th – October 29th, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. This satellite downlink presentation we be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday evenings. VOLUNTEERS are needed during the Prophecies Decoded seminars. Please contact Derek Riethmeier (248-225-7702 or ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. %29"> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Junlan Jiang ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) with your availability to help. Volunteer forms are located in the foyer. Women’s Retreat: September 30 – October 5 (Brenda Walsh) at Indian Creek Camp. For retreat and registration information please visit www.kytn.net or call the Women’s Ministry Department (615-859-1391). Prayer Group: Every Monday morning, there is a prayer support group that meets by phone. Our focus is for our contacts and Bible interests. It is free and meets 6:00 - 7:00 a.m. Some pray from their cell phones as they are driving to work. The call in number is 219-509-8222 and the pin number is 6602098#. When you are connected, announce yourself and be a part of something big. We have already seen specific answers to our prayers. For more information, see Andre' or Heather Wilson or Charlotte Hardy. We are sad to announce the death of Jonathan Seward on Tuesday, September 20th. Please keep Jonathan’s family and friends in your prayers. 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. 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). We are especially low on the following items: Peanut butter, jelly, canned peaches, apples sauce, tuna and raman noodles. 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! ACSC is also in desperate need for VOLUNTEERS any time of day. The Center is open Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. They would also appreciate cash donations to help keep the pantry supplies up. You can make donations through the Church – mark your offering envelope “Community Services Center.” They will continue to take donations of clothing, furniture, household items, etc.