WORSHIP SERVICES EACH SATURDAY MORNING
841 W Central Ave. Sutherlin, Oregon
Sabbath Morning Church At Study 9:20 AM
Sabbath Morning Worship Service 10:50 AM
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CALENDAR 070525
Today: Prayer Room is open after church.
Today: Sabbath School Council Meeting after church. Meet by the organ.
Today: Invitations to Vacation Bible School can be found in the Treasure Box on the table in the Narthex. Please take some to hand out to family, friends, neighbors, parents you meet in the park or ?
Tomorrow: 9 am VBS “Work Bee.” We will start decorating in earnest. Volunteers appreciated! VBS Team, please plan to attend because we will have a short meeting and watch the video songs.
Tomorrow: 11 am Birthday Brunch at Chen’s Family Dish
July 9th Wed: 6 pm Prayer Meeting
July 10th Thurs: 1-5 pm Pastor’s Office Hours
July 12th Sabbath: 9:20 am Sabbath School Bible Study “The Burning Bush”
July 12th Sabbath: Offering: GC Session Offering
July 12th Sabbath: Speaker: Darla Sherman
July 12th Sabbath: There will be NO Potluck.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Still time to register for Gladstone Camp Meeting. Call 503-850-3500.
Continue to Pray for the General Conference Session that is taking place now until July 12th.
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“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. To him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God.” Revelation 3: 11-12
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL July 14-17, 9:00 – Noon
Volunteers! We will be working on the final decorating projects and organizing the crafts for each day, and more, tomorrow, July 6th at 9 am. Any help from volunteers will be appreciated. Thank you, volunteers, for your help last Sunday. We accomplished more than we thought we could. Great job!!
Gems from Prayer Meeting
The Holy Spirit indites (puts down in writing) all genuine prayer. I have learned to know that in all my intercessions, the Spirit intercedes for me and for all saints whose intercessions are according to the will of God, never contrary to His will. ‘The Spirit also helpeth our infimities’ (Romans 8:26), and the Spirit being God, knoweth the mind of God; therefore in every prayer of ours for the sick, or for other needs, the will of God is to be regarded. ‘For what man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God’ (2 Cor. 2:11). If we are taught of God, we shall pray in conformity to His revealed will and in submission to His will which we know not. We are to make supplication according to the will of God, relying on the precious Word, and believing that Christ not only gave Himself for, but to, His disciples. The record declares, ‘He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost’” (John 20:22), Manuscript Releases, vol 2, pg 36.
Sabbath rest is complete today at 8:57 pm
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CALENDAR 062825
Today: Prayer Room is open after church.
Today: Church Fellowship Potluck
Tomorrow: 9 am VBS “Work Bee.” We would like to move some of the larger and heavier items to the ALC in readiness to start decorating.
July 2nd Wed: 6 pm Prayer Meeting
July 3rd Thurs: 1-5 pm Pastor’s Office Hours
July 5th Sabbath: 9:20 am Sabbath School Bible Study “Oppression: The Background and the Birth of Moses”
July 5th Sabbath: Offering: Church Budget
July 5th Sabbath: Speaker: Phil Sieck
July 5th Sabbath: Sabbath School Council Meeting after church. Meet by the organ.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Gladstone Camp Meeting is July 22nd to July 26th.
The General Conference Session is fast approaching. It will be held July 2nd to the 12th in St. Louis. Please continue to pray for this event.
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“He who overcomes will … be dressed in white. I will never erase his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.” Revelation 3:5
Gems from Prayer Meeting
“We must not only pray in Christ’s name, but by the inspiration of the Holy Sprit. This explains what is meant when it is said that the spirit ‘maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered.’ Romans 8:26. Such prayer God delights to answer. When with earnestness and intensity we breathe a prayer in the name of Christ, there is in that very intensity a pledge from God that He is about to answer our prayer’ exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.’” Ephesians 3:20. Christ’s Object Lessons, pg. 147
“Christ, our Mediator, and the Holy Spirit are constantly interceding in man’s behalf, but the Spirit pleads not for us as does Christ, who presents His blood, shed from the foundation of the world; the Spirit works upon our hearts, drawing out prayers and penitence, praise and thanksgiving. The gratitude which flows from our lips is the result of the Spirit’s striking the cords of the soul in holy memories, awakening the music of the heart.” Selected Messages, book 1, pg. 344
Food for Thought
A man found a butterfly cocoon. One day a small opening appeared in the cocoon. He sat and watched the butterfly for seveal hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could go. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of he cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, te wings wuld enlarge and expand to be able to suport the body. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the small opening in the cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We wuld not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly! “Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” James 1:2-4
Sabbath rest is complete today at 8:58 pm
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