Midtown Seventh-day Adventist Church, Columbia, S.C., Bulletin and Announcements for February 6, 2010

Bulletin and Announcements
for Week ending February 27, 2010

Church at Study(10:00)

We will be studying with Mertis Butler from the Sabbath School Quarterly, The Fruit of the Spirit. Today’s lesson is #8 on page 64, The Fruit of the Spirit is Faithfulness.

Church at Worship (11:15)

	Welcome and Announcements - Pastor Walter Fry
	Joash Box Offering - Pastor Walter Fry
	* Glory Be to the Father (660) - Bob Garner
	* Invocation - Pastor Walter Fry
	* Holy Spirit, Hear Us (680) - Bob Garner
	Call to Worship: Proverbs 12:28 - Bob Sitko
	* Hymn: God Will Take Care of You (99) - Bob Garner
	Scripture: John 14:5-6 - Bob Sitko
	Prayer Prelude: As We Come to You in Prayer (671) - Bob Garner
	Congregational Prayer - Barry Nicks
	Prayer Postlude: Hear Our Prayer, O Lord (684)
	Call for the Offering: Carolina Conference Advance - Narcissus Washington
	* Doxology (694) - Bob Garner
	* Offering Prayer - Narcissus Washington
	* Hymn: Marvelous Grace (109) - Bob Garner
	Message: Avoiding the Ditches - Pastor Walter Fry
	* Hymn: We Have This Hope (214) - Bob Garner
	* Benediction: Pastor Walter Fry

	Elder of the Day - Elder Ed Moresco
	Deacon of the Day - Bob Garner
	Pianist - Gary Beihl
	* Standing

Announcements

	Welcome to the Columbia Midtown Seventh-day Adventist Church. We are so happy to see you and trust that you will receive a great blessing for having worshiped with us. If you are visiting for the first time, please fill out a visitor’s card to let us know.
	Today, right after Worship, we’ll be having our last Fellowship Lunch here at the Capital Senior Center, with soups, salads, sandwiches and desserts. We hope everyone can stay to join us in good food and fellowship! This will be our last Fellowship Lunch until at least April, to give us time to set up our new facilities at the Maple Street church.
	In a few days we’ll be moving to our new home in the Maple Street Southern Methodist Church at 831 Maple Street. We are so thankful to the Lord for providing this facility for us to use and grow in. Our Prayer Meeting and Bible Study hour will be moving to Tuesday nights at 6:30 instead of Wednesdays. Our first meeting at the Maple Street church will be our monthly Church Board meeting, now meeting on the first Monday of each month. We’ll meet at the same time, 6:30 p.m. at the Maple Street church on Monday, March 1.
	Beginning next Sabbath, we will be having two Adult Sabbath School classes, the Regular class and the Pastor’s Class, which is primarily for new converts and non-members.
	On March 20, Dr. John Clark, a featured speaker on WBAJ, will deliver the sermon at our worship service at the Maple Street Church. Dr. Clark trained at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and has a passion to share his knowledge of conditions that can be prevented and reversed with good lifestyle choices. On Saturday evening, March 13, he will be speaking at the First Church of Lexington on Cancer, and on Friday evening, March 19, he will be speaking about Cholesterol at the West Columbia Church at 6:30.
	ACTS is in need of donations. If you have donations and are not able to get them to the shop, please call us. We will pick up. Thank you for your support of the Adventist Community Thrift Shop.
	During the first two weeks in March, Pastor Fry can be heard weekly on WBAJ on Thursdays at 10:30. For the remainder of March, he can be heard on Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m.
	Wanted: a mature, dependable, trustworthy individual to fill in for regularly scheduled volunteers as needed at the Adventist Community Thrift Shop. Must be flexible and work well with the public. Training will be provided. The job offers eternal retirement benefits! Please apply at ACTS. ACTS is interested in individuals who have thought about working for the Lord but have not yet made the commitment. Shift workers are needed to work from 10:00 - 2:00, 12:00 – 4:00 and 2:00 – 6:00 as your schedule permits. Required skills are the ability to work well with others and a desire to be a part of God’s work in the Columbia area. Benefits are out of this world!
	The Carolina Conference has established another donation designation for Haiti relief. If your envelope is marked “ADRA-Haiti”, the funds will go to assist the people of Haiti. If your envelope is marked “ADRA-Haiti(SDA)” the funds will go to help rebuild damaged and destroyed SDA churches in Haiti.
	You can now submit your tithes and offerings online using your credit card. Just go to our website, MidtownChurch.net, and click on “Online Giving”.
	Larry Snyder’s phone number was incorrectly listed on a telephone list circulated last Sabbath.
	A Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP) Leadership Training Workshop will be conducted April 9-11, 2010, at the Concord SDA Church, 2141 Highway 49 North, Concord, NC 28025, from 4:00 p.m. Friday to 4:00 p.m. Sunday. This workshop prepares church teams to present a powerful health ministry outreach that is changing lives and making friends for the church and citizens for the Kingdom. For more information and registration go to AdventistCHIP.org and click “Leadership Training.” You may also call 866-732-2447 for more information.
	Sabbath ends today at 6:17 pm. Next Sabbath begins Friday, March 5, at 6:22 pm.

Calendar February 2010

	February 6	February 13 Fellowship Lunch	February 20	February 27 Light Fellowship Lunch
Greeter	Bob Garner	Bob Garner	Bob Garner	Bob Garner
Speaker	Pastor Walter Fry Don't Flirt with the Serpent	Pastor Walter Fry Peace Like a River	Barry Nicks Last Day Counterfeits	Pastor Walter Fry Avoiding the Ditches
Chorister	Bob Garner	Bob Garner	Mary Gene Davis	Bob Garner
Call to Worship	Proverbs 12:23 Bob Sitko	Proverbs 12:24-25 Bob Sitko	Proverbs 12:26 Bob Sitko	Proverbs 12:28 Bob Sitko
Scripture	Revelation 12:9,12 Bob Sitko	Isaiah 48:18 Bob Sitko	2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 Bob Sitko	John 14:5-6 Bob Sitko
Prayer	Elizabeth Baynard	Larry Snyder	Ed Moresco	Barry Nicks
Call to Offering	Narcissus Washington	Narcissus Washington	Narcissus Washington	Narcissus Washington
Offering	Church Budget	Adventist TV Ministries	Church Budget	Carolina Advance
Offering Prayer	Narcissus Washington	Narcissus Washington	Narcissus Washington	Narcissus Washington
Pianist	Gary Beihl	Wanda Amick	Gary Beihl	Mary Gene Davis
Sabbath School Teacher	Elizabeth Baynard	Larry Snyder	Mertis Butler	Charlie Davis
Elder of the Day	Elder Barry Nicks	Elder Ed Moresco	Elder Barry Nicks	Elder Ed Moresco
Deacon of the Day	Charlie Jones	Bob Sitko	Narcissus Washington	Bob Garner
Sabbath Ends	5:58	6:05	6:11	6:17