71 King Street Hamilton, Victoria. Bulletin & News. Sabbath October 18th, We WELCOME you to our Worship Services Today

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1 Issue No. 173 Taking the Three Angel s Messages to the whole world King Street Hamilton, Victoria Bulletin & News Sabbath October 18th, 2014 We WELCOME you to our Worship Services Today Song Service Sabbath School Church Service 9:40 am 9:50 am 11:15 am Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him ( James 1:12 )

2 ~ Upcoming Dates & Announcements ~ Next Prayer Meeting - October 22nd at 5:30pm Let us keep the communication channels open to heaven always. Communion Service - Our quarterly communion service is next Sabbath, November 22nd. The service will be conducted by Peter Tung. Let us examine ourselves as we prepare our heart and mind for this special time with our Jesus Christ our Creator and Saviour. Fellowship Lunch - There will be a fellowship lunch after the service. If you would like to share a plate with us, you are welcome to do so or perhaps bring along some bread to share. Please feel free to join us as all are welcome. Continual Prayer - The week of prayer has passed, but don t stop there as prayer is the vital umbilical chord of life between heaven and earth, keeping us connected to our Saviour, Christ Jesus and our Heavenly Father, so please, organise small a prayer group for daily prayer and come together for an hour of solid prayer each day with family and friends. After all, God loves to hear us talk to him as often as possible and He especially wants to hear from you. Recipe Club Meeting - The next Eating 4 Health Recipe Club meeting will be on Tuesday on 28th October 2014 at 7pm in the Salvation Army Church Hall, 89 Kennedy St Hamilton. Susan Roberts will be the cook for the evening and Peter Roberts will be giving a brief health talk following the demonstration. Please see Mrs Lynette Tung for bookings and details. Special Prayer Requests - Please pray for John Tyack, who has Parkinson's disease, pneumonia, and paralysis of the legs. We ask for complete healing. Please submit all prayer requests via the church website or a church Elder. Personal Evangelism - Do you need evangelistic resources for Personal Evangelism? Please see our elders or the Personal Ministries leader, who will be able to help you with supplies, or they can obtain them for you HAMILTON CHURCH WEBSITE Website: Church Hamilton.sda.church@gmail.com 2

3 ~ God s Little Book of Prayer ~ Try praying aloud Praying aloud helps you focus on what you re saying. This reinforces your thinking and enables you to concentrate on the words. [ Psalm 55:16, 17 ] ~ Memory Verse ~ But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. [ 1 Timothy 4:7-9 ] ~ A Moment s Contemplation ~ Prayer is essential. It s the hotline between heaven and humanity. Without prayer man can never grow into the fullness of Christ. Without prayer, God remains silent. ~ Bible Promises ~ Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! [ Isaiah 49:15 (WEB) ] 3

4 ~ Record ~ EBOLA EPIDEMIC From 1976 to 2013, the Ebola virus claimed the lives of 1548 people. The death toll so far in 2014? Approximately And it gets worse. Not only is that number climbing, but the disease appears to be spreading. Just this past week, the first person diagnosed with Ebola outside West Africa died in a United States hospital. If you haven t been praying already, this Sabbath is a good time to start. I am urgently imploring all Seventh-day Adventists around this globe to make Sabbath, a special Day of Prayer for our brothers and sisters in West Africa... In all of this we want those in West Africa to know that, not only during the Sabbath prayer emphasis, but day-by-day, hour-by-hour, the people affected by this crisis will be lifted up in prayer to our Creator, Savior and Master Physician. Dr Ted Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church To read Dr Wilson s full statement, click here. To find out about some other worldchanging initiatives you can get involved in, keep reading this week s edition of Record enews. ~ Keep The Faith Ministries ~ WHO SAYS EBOLA SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE QUITE UNAVOIDABLE The World Health Organization s European director Zsuzsanna Jakab has said that it is quite unavoidable that the Ebola virus will spread across Europe. The warning comes as four people were in a Spanish hospital after a nurse became the first person 4

5 known to have contracted the disease outside of Africa. The nurse apparently became infected while working with two missionary priests with the disease. Both priests contracted Ebola while in West Africa and have died. Jakab thinks that Europe is prepared to control the disease. Such imported cases and similar events as have happened in Spain will happen also in the future, most likely, said Ms. Jakab. It is quite unavoidable that such incidents will happen in the future because of the extensive travel both from Europe to the affected countries and the other way around, she said. Twenty-two people who came in contact with the infected nurse are being monitored for signs of the disease. The nurse, who is being treated in Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, is in stable condition. Up to 30 colleagues also treated the priests. Officials are trying to find out how the infection spread to the nurse. John also was a witness of the terrible scenes that will take place as signs of Christ s coming. He saw armies mustering for battle, and men s hearts failing them for fear. He saw the earth moved out of its place, the mountains carried into the midst of the sea, the waves thereof roaring and troubled, and the mountains shaking with the swelling thereof. He saw the vials of God s wrath opened, and pestilence, famine, and death come upon the inhabitants of the earth. Review and Herald, January 11, 1887 Source Reference Ebola will spread across Europe, warns WHO chief Zsuzsanna Jakab Pastor Hal Mayer Speaker / Director PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN PHOTO OF ELLEN WHITE FOUND The candid picture from 1905 provides a rare glimpse into the Adventist pioneer s everyday life. Posted October 8, 2014 ~ Adventist Review ~ A previously unknown photograph of Adventist Church co-founder Ellen G. White has surfaced among the aging documents of an Adventist physician who died in California in The 1905 photo which shows White walking outdoors with her son William and his wife, May is the first new picture of White to turn up in decades, and its 5

6 discovery is especially thrilling for White scholars because it provides a rare glimpse into her everyday life. I ve never seen her in this way before, said James R. Nix, director of the Ellen G. White Estate, a church institution that oversees White s writings. This particular photo is significant because it is candid, Nix said Wednesday. You feel like you could step up to her and say, It s nice to see you. Only about 50 photos of White are known to exist, and most of them were taken in a studio or other formal setting. In the 1905 photo, White, 77, is seen walking near a pitched tent as she apparently attends the General Conference session in Takoma Park, Maryland, in May White, wearing an Edwardian hat and floral scarf, clasps the arm of her son William Willie C. White, her chief editorial assistant and publishing manager. THE FULL PHOTO: Ellen G. White walking near a tent with her son William C. White and his wife, May, in Courtesy of Jacqueline Leslie Trott-Bally contains her notes, Nix said. Clutched in her other hand is a large journal, the kind that she used to handwrite letters and sermons and that the White Estate now carefully stores in a fireproof vault. A slip of white paper can be seen sticking out of the corner of the journal. In my imagination, she is heading to speak at a meeting and this journal Supporting the idea that White might have been walking to a speaking engagement is the pince-nez perched on her nose. White was known to wear eyeglasses for reading, so perhaps she put them on her nose on that chilly May day to read a speech. This is only the second known photo of White wearing glasses. Why a Tent Stands Behind White Tim L. Poirier, archivist at the White Estate who has researched the photo, initially thought that the other woman in the picture might be White s nurse, Sara 6

7 McEnterfer, who often accompanied White on travels away from California, where she lived at the time. But a comparison with other photos showed that the woman was White s daughter-in-law, May. Poirier also learned that the nurse had fallen ill before the General Conference session and May White had made arrangements to leave her and William s children with family members in California so the couple could journey East with Ellen White. Poirier added: The tents and grounds in the photo match what we know of the location of the session at the present location of Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland. The General Conference session was held in a large tent at the newly founded Washington Training College (now Washington Adventist University). The General Conference, the administrative body that oversees the Seventh-day Adventist Church, had only moved to the area from Battle Creek, Michigan, in late 1903, and it was renting premises in nearby Washington together with the Review and Herald publishing house, said Ronald D. Graybill, a retired Adventist historian. Delegates lived in tents. Ellen White stayed in a bedroom and study in the newly built men s dormitory, while her son and daughter-in-law shared a third room, Graybill said. Seventh-day Adventists view Ellen White as a gifted writer and a special messenger appointed by God to draw the world's attention to the Bible and help prepare people for Jesus second coming, according to a biography on the White Estate s website. From the time she was 17 years old until she died 70 years later, God gave her approximately 2,000 visions and dreams, it says. The visions varied in length from less than a minute to nearly four hours. The knowledge and counsel received through these revelations she wrote out to be shared with others. White is the most translated woman author in the history of literature, writing more than 5,000 journal articles and 40 books on religion, education, nutrition, and Christian living, among other topics. Years have passed since the previous discovery of an unknown White photo. Nix estimated that the last photo might have been found 50 to 60 years ago, saying the 1905 photo is the first new image in the 42 years that he has worked at the White Estate. Origins of the Unknown Photo The author of the 1905 photo is unclear. But a likely candidate is its original owner, Harriet Hattie Allee Trott, a 27-year-old widow who was working as a secretary at Review and Herald in Trott, an avid photographer, later moved to California to work as registrar at the 7

8 College of Medical Evangelists (now Loma Linda University), and she married graduate and physician Leslie Trott in It was among Leslie Trott s papers that the lost photo was found. Harriet Allee Trott died in 1958, eight years before her husband, who worked at the Adventist-operated White Memorial Medical Center, named after Ellen White, in Los Angeles. The Trotts great-granddaughter, Jacqueline Leslie Trott-Bally of Los Angeles, stumbled across the White photo in a folder marked Harriet Family Photos while sorting through old papers, said Graybill, whom Trott-Bally contacted about the photo. She had already been working with Graybill to donate some of her great-grandfather s papers to his alma mater, Loma Linda University. Graybill, whose own research includes a slide presentation of all the known photos of White, immediately recognized White in the photo and realized the rarity of the find. Harriet Hattie Allee Trott. Courtesy of Jacqueline Leslie Trott It is amazing to find an unknown photo at this late date, he said in a telephone interview. The old photo measures only 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches but is remarkably sharp, Graybill said. I was amazed at the clarity, I was amazed at the detail, and I was charmed by the hat, he said. He said White wore a bonnet in the one other photo that shows her head covered. Graybill alerted the White Estate about the new photo on Oct. 1 and forwarded a copy of the image photographed on Trott-Bally's iphone. He is now making arrangements to make a high-resolution scan of the original. 'My Favorite Picture of Ellen White' The find raises hopes that other photos of White might surface. Nix, the director of the White Estate, said people with long connections to the Adventist Church should check old family albums and boxes of pictures to see whether they might contain photos of White or other Adventist pioneers. He said it is interesting to read stories about Adventist pioneers, but also seeing them, particularly in candid photos, helps people to better identify with them as real 8

9 people. Until I saw this picture, I mentally pictured Ellen White only wearing dark maroon or black in public following the death of her husband in 1881, Nix said. Seeing her wearing a colored scarf around her neck, with reading glasses perched on her nose, and notes in her hand for a talk she gave, has brought her to life for me in ways that no other picture of her ever has, he said. I have only been aware of this picture for just over a week, but it has already become my favorite picture of Ellen White. Contact news editor Andrew McChesney at mcchesneya@gc.adventist.org. Related link: Searchable database of all known Ellen G. White photos on the website of the White Estate ~ From the Spirit of Prophecy - Think About: ~ Angels Help God's Children Angels are sent on missions of mercy to the children of God. To Abraham, with promises of blessing; to the gates of Sodom, to rescue righteous Lot from its fiery doom; to Elijah, as he was about to perish from weariness and hunger in the desert; to Elisha, with chariots and horses of fire surrounding the little town where he was shut in by his foes; to Daniel, while seeking divine wisdom in the court of a heathen king, or abandoned to become the lions prey; to Peter, doomed to death in Herod's dungeon; to the prisoners at Philippi; to Paul and His companions in the night of tempest on the sea; to open the mind of Cornelius to receive the gospel; to dispatch Peter with the message of salvation to the Gentile stranger thus holy angels have, in all ages, ministered to God's people. {TA 10.3} Thus God's people, exposed to the deceptive power and unsleeping malice of the prince of darkness, and in conflict with all the forces of evil, are assured of the unceasing guardianship of heavenly angels. Nor is such assurance given without need. If God has granted to His children promise of grace and protection, it is because there are mighty agencies of evil to be met agencies numerous, determined, and untiring, of whose malignity and power none can safely be ignorant or unheeding. {TA 11.1} 9

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11 The Motive for Obedience For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 1 John 5:3 ~ Weekly Devotional ~ It is the keeping of the commandments of God that honors and glorifies Him in His chosen. Wherefore every soul to whom God has given reasoning faculties is under obligation to God to search the Word and ascertain all that is enjoined upon us as God's purchased possession. We should seek to understand all that the Word requires of us.... We cannot show greater honor to our God, whose we are by creation and redemption, than to give evidence to the beings of heaven, to the worlds unfallen, and to fallen men, that we diligently hearken unto all His commandments, which are the laws that govern His kingdom. We need to study diligently that we may gain a knowledge of the laws of God. How can we be obedient subjects if we fail to understand the laws that govern the kingdom of God? Then open your Bibles and search for everything that will enlighten you in regard to the precepts of God; and when you discern a Thus saith the Lord, ask not the opinion of men, but whatever the cost to yourself, obey cheerfully. Then the blessing of God will rest upon you... Often ask prayerfully, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Am I in any way disregarding the divine precepts? Am I in any way placing my influence on the enemy's side? Am I showing a careless disregard of God's commandments? Am I willing to yoke up with Christ, to lift the burdens, and to be a co-laborer with Him? Am I studying out possible excuses for neglecting obedience to a Thus saith the Lord? Am I risking the consequences of neglect to obey the clearly revealed precepts of Jehovah because I am not willing to come out from the world and be separate? Shall the fear of man have a greater influence over me than the fear of God?" Surrender yourself to God, saying, "'Here, Lord, I give myself away; 'tis all that I can do.' I will not be found in disobedience to Thy law, for that would place me in the enemy's ranks." (That I May Know Him Ellen G White - page 297) 11

12 ~ Sabbath Services ~ Service This Week Next Week October 18th October 25th Divine Service Peter Tung Tony Bates Sabbath School Tony Bates Chen Lee ~ Sunset Times ~ Sunset Sabbath (Tonight) 7:52 pm (DST) Sunset Next Friday 7:58 pm (DST) This Week: Next Week: ~ Church Offering ~ Local Church Budget Local Church Budget ~ Church Cleaning ~ October 12th - October 25th Tung Family October 26th - November 8th Sara Derksen October 12th - October 25th ~ Garden Maintenance ~ Peter Tung October 26th - November 8th Volunteer Needed ~ Church Website ~ Website : Hamilton.sda.church@gmail.com - Contact Details - Pastor Justin Bone