Grants Pass. Seventh-day Adventist Church. Pastor Charles Byrd. April 7, 2018

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1 Grants Pass Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Charles Byrd April 7, 2018 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7

2 ~TO OUR GUESTS~ Jesus Welcome saith to the unto family him, of the I Grants am the Pass way, Seventh-day the truth, Adventist and Church. If you desire a place where you can grow spiritually, the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. find healing, and learn from the Bible, please join us on that same journey. You may share information with us by filling out the "Connection Card" in the pew rack. We're so glad you came! Happy Sabbath! Today s flowers are provided by Kii Morse in celebration of her one year work anniversary here at the church AND to celebrate Chuck & Alta returning home to Grants Pass. 10:50 AM We re excited that the students of our Grants Pass SDA School will be blessing us with their God-given talents during the main service. There is no Fellowship Luncheon today. ~ Serving You Today ~ Elder Mitt Dietrich Deaconesses Caryl Ermshar & Sylvia Crary Deacon Dave Crick Audio Terry Trautwein & Alex Baydala Keyboards Dorothy Erwin Interpreter for the Deaf Wende Trautwein The blessings of the Sabbath draw to a close at 7:45 PM and resume next Friday at 7:52 PM

3 THIS WEEK S CALENDAR Sunday ~ April 8 o 10:00 AM Organic Gardening Class / North Valley Church o 2:00 PM Blanket Ministry / Library o 5:00 PM Soccer / School Gym o 6:00 PM Handbell Choir Practice / Multipurpose Room Monday ~ April 9 o 9:00 AM 1:30 PM Dorcas Thrift Store Hours o 5:30 PM Pathfinders / School o 6:00 PM Organic Gardening Class / North Valley Church o 6:30 PM Men s Ministry / Youth Chapel Tuesday ~ April 10 o 9:00 AM 2:00 PM Dorcas o 9:00 AM 1:30 PM Dorcas Thrift Store Hours o 12:00 PM 4:00 PM Veggie Food Store Hours / School o 4:00 PM Small Group Bible Study / Youth Chapel o 5:00 PM Women s Bible Study Group / Multipurpose Room o 6:00 PM Organic Gardening Class / North Valley Church o 6:30 PM Elders Meeting / Library Wednesday ~ April 11 o 12:00 PM Bulletin Information Deadline o 4:00 PM New Testament Study / Youth Chapel o 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting / Youth Chapel Thursday ~ April 12 o 9:00 AM 1:30 PM Dorcas Thrift Store Hours o 3:00 PM 6:00 PM Veggie Food Store Hours / School o 5:00 PM Revelation Study / Multipurpose Room o 6:00 PM Safety Meeting / BLC o 6:30 PM Choir Practice / Choir Room NEXT SABBATH ~ April 14 o 9:30 AM Sabbath School / BLBN Update o 10:50 AM Speaker Lincoln Steed Stand and Deliver / Sanctuary o 12:30 PM Fellowship Luncheon / BLC o Hosted by All Church Please bring extra food o 2:00 PM Speaker Lincoln Steed Global Warming or Cooling? / Sanctuary

4 SABBATH SCHOOL 9:30 9:50 AM Biblical Gardening Birthday & Thank Offering Lynn Hoag 9:50 10:40 AM Bible Study Classes The Cosmic Controversy Sabbath School Study Guide, 2 nd Quarter, Lesson 1 *Extra study guides are at the Personal Ministries window* SABBATH SCHOOL CLASSES Children s Divisions: Beginners East Hall of Foyer, Birth to 4 years Kindergarten West Hall of Foyer, Ages 4-6 years Primary East Hall, Downstairs, Grades 2-4 Junior / Earliteen West Hall, Downstairs, Grades 5-8 Youth Youth Chapel, Grades 9-12 Adult Classes: Les Derfler East Hall, Prayer Room 213 Richard Carrigan West Hall, Room 221 Frank Hurd Sanctuary, West Side Christianity 101 East Hall, Training Chapel, Room 214 Caryl Ermshar North of Sanctuary Ed Sanders Sanctuary, East Side Donna Griffith Multipurpose Room, Downstairs Spanish Class West Hall, Downstairs Young Adults Young Adult s Room, North of Sanctuary

5 10:50 AM PRELUDE WELCOME TO WORSHIP SCHOOL NEWS Richard Rasmussen Bridget Cline SONG SERVICE Kara Arnold & Students SCRIPTURE & PRAYER Jordan Melugin Isaiah 40:28-31 A CHILD S GOODNIGHT PRAYER Grades K-2 SPECIAL MUSIC School Students Father, I Adore You THE BEATITUDES Grades 3 & 4 CHILDREN S STORY Maddie Dietrich WORSHIP IN GIVING Local Church Budget Offertory Music by Cassidy Sharp Ancient Words WORSHIP IN MUSIC How Great Thou Art THE WORD Kilee Wilson Pastor Charles Byrd Educating for the Battle SONG OF RESPONSE Hymn # 543 Jesus, Friend of Little Children BENEDICTION Pastor Charles Byrd (Please be seated after the benediction and the Deacons will dismiss by row)

6 Thoughts & Prayers April Prayer Focus: Pray for our church family to surrender all to Jesus and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Grants Pass Church. Those Who Need Healing: Fran Holder, Monica Wheeler, Israel Rush, Joney Haning, Jean Frers, Jessica Rae, Lance Schmidt, Dave Hamblin, Molly Mourning, Gary Jones, Dennis Gallegos, Beth Greer, Baby Amelia Wagner Church Ministries: Adult Sabbath School, Children s Ministries, Church Budget, and Better Life Broadcasting Network UPCOMING EVENTS ~ 2018 April 7 ~ Cowboy Church / Gateway April 8 10 ~ Organic Gardening Workshop April 14 ~ Religious Liberty speaker Lincoln Steed & afternoon program April 15 ~ Celebration of Life for Ben Gibson April 16 ~ Celebration of Life for Judy Kinder April 19 ~ Grants Pass School Constituency Meeting April 28 ~ All Church Spring Vespers & Olympics Event ANNOUNCEMENTS Organic Gardening Workshop The Organic Gardening Workshop with SDA Master Gardener Lynn Hoag starts tomorrow at 10:00 AM at the North Valley SDA Church, 101 Acorn St in Merlin. If you d like to attend but haven t registered yet, please call Marcella at Blanket Ministry Meeting Join us tomorrow, Sunday, April 8 th from 2:00 4:00 PM in the church library as we work together to make blankets for the children in our community. For more information, please contact Rebekah at Celebration of Life for Ben Gibson Please join us for a Celebration of Life for Ben Gibson at 2:00 PM on Sunday, April 15 here in the sanctuary. The family is requesting to please consider contributing to Better Life Broadcasting Network in lieu of flowers.

7 Religious Liberty Focus on Sabbath, April 14 th Do you wonder about the latest developments affecting our most basic freedoms? Don't miss this power-packed event with informative presentations by Lincoln Steed, editor of Liberty Magazine. The morning worship service will include a religious liberty sermon, "Stand and Deliver" followed by a second talk at 2:00 PM titled "Global Warming or Cooling?". Baby Bottle Program Please remember to pick up your baby bottles for the Pregnancy Care Center Project today after the main church service in the foyer. Thanks for helping with this community project. Next Week s Offering is for Christian Record Next Sabbath, April 14, is the Christian Record Annual Day of Giving. Your gift to Christian Record through the World Budget offering gives lifechanging materials to people who are blind. These materials include such items as Bibles, Sabbath School lessons, magazines, books, and confidencebuilding experiences at camp. To give directly, please make your check payable to Christian Record or donate online at Thank you! Spiritual Gifts Seminar Growing! & Going! invites you to a spiritual gifts seminar on Sabbath, April 21 st beginning at 3:00 PM in the Better Living Center. Donna Griffith will be leading this seminar, which promises to be informative and inspiring. All Church Spring Vespers and Olympics Event You are invited to the Growing! & Going! All Church Spring Vespers and Olympics on April 28 in the Better Living Center, starting at 7:00 PM. It will be a night of worship, fellowship, and fun. We will close the Sabbath with vespers, enjoy a potluck, and visit several stations for games. There will be "fun" and "intellectual" games for all ages to enjoy. Church Calendar Scheduling To avoid scheduling conflicts, please contact the church office when planning an event or when you need to use a room in the church, the sanctuary, or the Better Living Center. All activities, and especially those other-than-the-normally-scheduled usages, must be put on the church calendar. Thank you!

8 Notice of Grants Pass Seventh-day Adventist School Constituency Meeting Official notice is hereby given that the regular constituency meeting of Grants Pass Seventh-day Adventist School (GPSAS) will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the School Commons. The purpose of the constituency meeting is to present reports, to approve the operating budget, to consider and act upon recommended changes to the constitution, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the constituents. Only items already on the agenda will be discussed. The constituency of Grants Pass Seventh-day Adventist School consists of the members of the following Seventh-day Adventist constituent churches: Gateway, Grants Pass, North Valley, Rogue River, and Williams; the Oregon Conference Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee, and the Oregon Conference President or his/her designee. All church members from the constituent churches are urged to attend this constituency session. A quorum to transact business shall consist of five percent of the total members of the constituency and every church must be represented. A dinner for members of the school constituency will be served at 6:00 PM in the School Commons. The cost of the meal is $5 per person. Submitted by Douglas Garcia, GPSAS School Board Chair and Richard Rasmussen, GPSAS Principal and Board Executive Secretary. Women s Bible Study Ladies, come and join us as we study the life of Christ in the Gospels along with The Desire of Ages. This study promises to bring you closer to Jesus and to the other women of our church. We meet every Tuesday at 5:00 PM in the Multipurpose Room. Bring your Bible and The Desire of Ages. For more information please call Donna Griffith. Small Group Bible Study The Small Group Bible Study Class on Tuesdays in the Youth Chapel will begin again on April 10 th when Chuck Austin will resume the teaching of the class. More Oranges! More of those delicious, fresh oranges will be arriving from California the first week of April. The senior class from Rogue Valley Adventist Academy will be selling 10# bags of oranges for $10 to raise money for their class trip. Please call or text Heidi Wiggers at to reserve your bag or connect with one of the seniors. Thank you for your support.

9 Better Life Fundraiser Coming Soon! Do you have items of value you no longer use? Why not turn your good quality unused goods into money to save souls? Coming this Spring, mission-minded volunteers will host a huge rummage sale in the lower church parking lot. The funds raised will benefit Better Life TV, however, your goods cannot be collected by or stored at Better Life TV before or after the sale. Items not sold may be donated to Dorcas. Each person will be responsible for their own unsold goods. For more details please call Stella at Dorcas Many in the community of Grants Pass are blessed with food and clothing that is distributed from our center. Volunteers are needed to serve in the operation of various stations. It would be greatly appreciated if you could give of your time and /or to donate the following items: gloves, blankets, tents and sleeping bags. We no longer need egg cartons. Please call Larry Sample at for more information. Walla Walla Homecoming Weekend Alumni and friends of WWU are invited to Homecoming Weekend, April More than 50 events are planned, including a banquet celebrating our core theme of generosity in service, educational seminars, a special PRISM concert, a Bowers Hall open house, and an Alleluias and Meditations concert Sabbath evening. A full list of events and registration information is available at wallawalla.edu/homecoming or by calling CHEERFUL GIVERS REPORT AS OF 3/31/18 Monthly Goal Church Budget (#9001) $ 20, Praise the Lord! + $4, Student Aid (#9576) $ 2, $73.59 Next Week s Offering: Christian Record Services (WB) Church Budget as of the end of February, 2018: -$7, Our worship service is livestreamed at It is also archived on our YouTube channel, "Grants Pass Adventist Church" and rebroadcast on Better Life Broadcasting Network.

10 DIRECTORY Grants Pass Seventh-day Adventist Church 1360 NE 9 th Street Grants Pass, OR Church Office: Fax: Church Office Hours: Mon Thurs 9 AM 3 PM Office@grantspasschurch.com Web Site: Pastor Charles Byrd: PastorByrd@GrantsPassChurch.com Pastor Charles Byrd Pastor s Office Hours: Tuesdays 10 AM 3 PM Bible Worker Victor De La Vega Church Secretary Kii Morse Head Elder Richard Carrigan Head Deacon Dave Hallmark Head Deaconess Sandy Page Treasurer Terry Trautwein Dorcas Leader Larry Sample Dorcas Office Tuesdays Dorcas Thrift Shop Mon., Tues., Thurs. 9:00 1:30 Grants Pass SDA School Grades K Principal Richard Rasmussen Oregon Conference Office Adventist Book Center Better Life Broadcasting Grants Pass Worship Hour Broadcast Sunday at 11:00 AM, Wednesday at 4:00 AM, Friday at 10:00 PM Sabbath at 4:00 PM, Channel 22/Antenna 30.1 THE VEGGIE FOOD STORE HOURS AT THE SCHOOL Tuesday: 12:00 4:00 PM Thursday: 3:00 6:00 PM

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