September 22, 2012
The Church at Study
9:15am – 10:30am
(3rd
Quarter 2012):
Adult Classes
The Church at Worship
In Songs of Worship and Preparation
“We Sing Alleluia”
In the Call to Worship:
“But I have trusted in Your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Your
salvation. I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with
me” Psalm 13:5-6.
We Respond
In Praise
In Invocation
In Hymn of Praise
God Invites Us to Confess
In Song of Response
**In Prayer
God Invites Us to Respond
In Giving Our Offerings
Clyde Ward
Kentucky-Tennessee Conference Advance
Offertory: Beth Davis
In Heart of Praise and Thanksgiving
“Great Are You Lord”
Lorri the Children’s Story
In Raymond
Pat Ward
Today’s Sabbath School Superintendent
Lesson Study Guide
This week’s lesson:
Location
Ann Foster/Thomas Hardy/Chito Pugao
Sanctuary - Front
André Wilson
Sanctuary - Back
Magaria Waitara/Musa Garba(Swahili/English Class)
Upstairs Right
The Circle (Gibran/Wilcox)
Library
New Believers Class (Pastor)
Fellowship Hall
Collegiate/Young Adult (Orville Bignall)
Upper Room (building across street)
Ethiopian Class
Music Room
Beginners
Kindergarten
Primary
Juniors & Earliteens (Upstairs Left)
Youth (Young Adult Classroom)
Ann Foster
1 and 2 Thessalonians
“The Antichrist“
“Majesty”
Pastor Melvin Santos
#294
“Power in the Blood”
Children’s Classes
Ages: Infant – 3
Ages: 4 – 7
Ages: 8 -10
Ages: 11 – 14
9th grade and up
“Soften My Heart, Lord”
Thomas Hardy
Church Family Time
10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Coordinator
Welcome, Family Fellowship & Song
Brian Wilcox
“The Family of God”
Please turn off or silence all cell
phones and other electronic devices.
“You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My
sanctuary: I am the Lord” Leviticus 19:30.
We Receive Him
Through Special MusicMadison Campus Elementary Chimes
“Brethren, We Have Met to Worship”
Pastor Melvin Santos
Revelation Series: “The Seventh Seal”
Platform Coordinator:
Pianist:
A/V Operator:
Greeters:
Deacon for the day:
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Nathan Wood
Doug Pratt
Vic Briggs
Dean Flint & James Marlowe
Kwabena Addison-Amponsah
We Depart to Serve
With His Song of Commitment
With His Benediction
Mark Williams
Doug Pratt
** Congregation please kneel
Nashville First Seventh-day Adventist Church
2800 Blair Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-297-1343
www.nfsda.org / E-mail:
Phone Directory
Melvin Santos, Pastor
(home) 472-1721/ (mobile) 810-241-3399
Orville Bignall, Head Elder
(home) 876-5021 / (mobile) 512-9193
Craig Tucker, Co-Head Deacon
799-8347
Winston Tucker, Co-Head Deacon
(home) 799-8033/ (mobile) 973-8697
Lynda Briggs, Co-Head Deaconess
283-8352
Charlotte Hardy, Co-Head Deaconess
867-3348
Dean Flint, Personal Ministries
(home) 868-0820/ (mobile) 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 or email to the address
above.
MONTHLY CHURCH BUDGET is $9,373. 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 August
$9,373
Total income received for August $4,213
-$5,159
Expenses vs. Income for 2012: +$2,522
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: 6:45 pm
Sunset Next Friday: 6:35 pm
Church Budget Update
Church Calendar
TODAY – September 22, 2012
• All church fellowship lunch will be served in the fellowship
hall approximately 15 minutes after services. All Invited!!
• AY meeting in the fellowship hall at 2:00 p.m.
• Revelation Reveals seminar; 7:00 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. in the
sanctuary.
Next Week
SUNDAY, September 23rd
Revelation Reveals; 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. The Object
of the Anti-Christ’s Attack.
WEDNESDAY, September 26th
Revelation Reveals;
Christianity’s Greatest Cover-up
FRIDAY, September 28th
Revelation Reveals; 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. How to
Identify a Cult
Hand Bell Choir Practice Schedule: Please meet in the music room at
9:00 a.m.
o September 22nd - Teen/Adult choir
o September 29th - Primary/Junior choir
o October 6th – Teen/Adult choir
o October 13th – No practice
Children’s Church Schedule
Children’s Church will be held on the following dates:
o October 13th (at the family retreat)
o November 3rd
o December 15th
Social Committee Calendar of Events
• First Church Family Retreat at Indian Creek Camp, October 12 –
14, 2010. Our speaker for the adult/youth meetings will be John
van Zyl. His presentation is entitled “A Close-up Look at the
Great Controversy.” Laura Breece will lead Children’s Church
for our Kindergarten, Primary and Junior kids! See insert for
reservation form.
7:00
p.m.
in
the
sanctuary.
you chose to worship with us this Sabbath.
This Week’s Prayer Focus Families - Remember in prayer this week:
Peter & Danett Guy, children Travas Lenard & Danielle Guy
Joan Harden
Thomas & Charlotte Hardy, daughters Shannon & Lauren
Prayer Requests for Healing:
George Wilenski – recovering from heart surgery, father of John
Wilenski
Eva Fowler – has been very ill with myositis (inflammation of
muscles).
Pam Andal – health concerns
Lynda Briggs – back pain
Shauneille Morton – health concerns
Joseph Clough – recovery from heart surgery
Tim – stomach tumor, friend of Raimond & Laura Breece
Sharon Lewis –lung cancer, Joan Gibran’s sister
Ric Andal – kidney issues
Lisa Miller – MS symptoms have returned; Lynda Briggs’ sister
Thomas Hardy, Sr. – Lung cancer, father of Thomas Hardy
Jeff Vetitoe, close family friend of Betty Bolton. Pray for healing of
body and soul.
Linda Grow – continued recovery from leukemia
Heather Wood – complete recovery from stroke, daughter of
Pastor Jerry & Judy Rimer
Eucabeth Ongau –fused ankle surgery, complete recovery
Mina Angwenyi – full recovery, hip replacement surgeries
Ruth Swain – health concerns
Horace Swain – health concerns
Nate Hatcher, Jr. – health concerns
Baby Michael Copeland – premature birth complications
Clyde Ward – kidney disease, on dialysis; awaiting transplant
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Prayer Requests (other):
• Nate Hatcher, Sr. and others looking for work and income
Come Out and Play With Us!
Announcements for September 22, 2012
WELCOME!
Welcome to the Nashville First SDA Church! We are delighted
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.
AY meeting today at 2:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall. AY meetings and
activities are for the whole church family – Everyone is welcome to attend
and participate!
Revelation Reveals – tonight at 7:00 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. in the sanctuary.
Please bring your family and friends. At 7:00 p.m. – “How Will God Judge
You?” At 7:45pm – “Whatever Happened to Right and Wrong?”
The Worship Committee will meet this Monday, September 27th at 5:00
p.m. in the library.
First Church Family Retreat at Indian Creek Camp, October 12 th – 14th,
2010. Our speaker for the adult/youth meetings will be John van Zyl.
His presentation is entitled “A Close-up Look at the Great Controversy.”
Laura Breece will lead Children’s Church for our Kindergarten, Primary
and Junior kids! See insert for reservation form. Reservation with
payment is due no later than October 6th.
Doug Pratt is creating a praise team for the church retreat on October
12 -14. Please contact Doug if you would like to be part of this group at
.
The Social Committee is in need of tent/awning shelters. If you
have a shelter that you are willing to lend for a short time, please
contact Marjie Johns () or the church office
(). We will need to know the dimensions of your
shelter.
Madison Academy is starting an international student program. If you are
interested in being a host family for a student for a full year, please contact
Dan Johnson by October 1st at or 615-
865-4055.
link on our church web page at www.nfsda.org.
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 fill out forms you will find there. DVDs
are $5.00 and CDs are $3.00. Please give your completed form and funds
to the Media personnel (Ric Andal, Brent Cordis, Lauren Andal) and your
order will be processed for the next week. Please Note: You may view
sermons from our website (nfsda.org) for free!
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
403 Gallatin Pike South
Madison, TN 37115
615-860-6001
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, or if you
prefer, you can make a monetary donation. Make checks payable to First
Church and mark your offering envelope “ACSC.” Volunteers needed:
Cashiers and phone receptionists.
For those who have agreed to hold offices for the church, the term starts
the first of September and/or when your name and church position has
been voted on by the church body. If these two things have happened,
please start your duties immediately.
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON ONLINE: Did you know you can access the
Sabbath School Lessons online for adults, beginners, kindergarten, primary,
and teens? Go to www.absg.adventist.org/Standard.htm or check out the