Good morning,

As you know Ailene Zimmerman died this week.  The funeral will be today at 1:00 pm at the Gorsline Runciman Funeral Home in Williamston.  The family will receive friends from noon to 1:00 pm.  There will be a luncheon following the service in the Fellowship Room.  We are asking that you bring a dish to the church before the service.  There will be a number of out of town guests.  Thank you for honoring a great lady who gave so much to our church.

If you would like to send a card to Kirt & Joyce Zimmerman their address is 100 W. Butterfield Rd., #101, Elmhurst, IL  60126

Don’t forget the Agape Feast on Good Friday, April 2.  We begin at 6:00 pm with footwashing and communion follows.  After dinner JoAnn Davidson will be speaking.  Please come to celebrate the death and resurrection of our Savior. 

On Monday the 22nd the spring MSU series will begin.  It features Steve Conway.  Please pray for this series of meetings and our students as they lead out in this evangelistic event. 

Have you visited our food pantry?  I think it is kinda neat.  It is at the back of the stage area in the Fellowship Room.  If you are in need of some help, please feel free to take what you need. 

Please note calendar item changes for April:  The Health Supper Club date has been moved to April 8th at 6pm.  April board meeting has been moved to April 15th. 

Thursday evening Healthy Supper Club parking – please note that if you park on Ann St. you will be ticketed by the city if you park for more than an hour. Please park in the parking ramp and receive a voucher.

We will be beginning a new believers class on April 3rd. Kevin Brooks will be leading out. It will be meeting in literature room in the basement. If you are newly baptized or studying to be baptized

- this class is for you!

The student lunch will be at Burlingames after church this week.  Maps will be available in the foyer.  

Dan Miller will be getting baptized on March 20th at 4:30 pm at the University Church. We praise the Lord for God’s leading in Dan’s life in his quest for truth! Join us as we share in his commitment!

Quote of the Week:

The badge of Christianity is not an outward sign, not the wearing of a cross or a crown, but it is that which reveals the union of man with God. By the power of His grace manifested in the transformation of character the world is to be convinced that God has sent His Son as its Redeemer. No other influence that can surround the human soul has such power as the influence of an unselfish life. The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.  {MH 470.1}

This Sabbath Pastor David will continue his series of message from the Sermon on the Mount. Join us for worship and fellowship.

See you tomorrow,

Mary

Sabbath School 9:45; church 11:20

Good morning,

March is supposed to mean spring.  But as I look out my window there is an awful lot of winter still around! 

This note from Zo “What a wonderful day we had last Sabbath! We would like to thank everyone who contributed in the smooth-running of things. We ALL worked together as a team – this is what is called ‘Unity in Diversity’.
First I would like to thank our church family for being so generous in preparing those delicious dishes. We had such a big crowd, but every person got their turn…we even had leftovers!
This year, the planning committee of the African Caribbean Sabbath had a mission: which is to use this program as an evangelistic tool to reach out to our pre-Adventist friends, neighbors, coworkers and family members. And the good Lord heard our prayers – we had visitors from all walks of life. One of our visitors is a very well respected Minister of a Sunday-keeping Church, he came with his whole family! At the end of the day they said they loved every minute of the program and that it was a blessing to worship with us. They indicated they will be visiting us again soon!”

Thanks to Jay Crawford for shoveling the snow around the church early Sabbath morning!  That’s a good example of humility. Thanks Elvy for registering our visitors, in that way we will be able to maintain contact with them and do follow-up. We are thankful to Kevin Brooks for stepping in at the last minute to preach – that’s a true spirit of meekness. We hope Kebede Daka is recovering from the cold, and the Lord will continue to use him in building the church-school in Ethopia.  Wilson Ndovie also gave a special touch to our Bulletin, printed and laminated all the flags of different countries represented in our church ( 22 countries!). Thanks Laura and Jesusa for warming up the food some of our visitors were not even aware that everything was vegetarian! Also Gary Affholter for assisting in the kitchen.  Last but not least, we would like to that every person who was involved in the program from Sabbath school, choir and the afternoon program. God Bless!

The students are leaving on spring break next week.  So the dinner scheduled for our house on the 13th has been postponed until the 20th. 

Another thing for your calendar is April 2.  That is the date for our Good Friday Agape Feast.  It will begin at 6 pm.  Mark your calendars now to attend.  JoAnn Davidson will be speaking.

“On Sabbath March 6th the Religious Liberty sermon “Go in the Strength You Have”, presented by Dr. Bruce N. Cameron, and bonus feature “Stand UP for Liberty”, presented by Liberty Magazine Editor Lincoln Steed will be shown by DVD in the Conference Room at 3:30 after the baptism. One attendee will receive a free year’s subscription to Liberty Magazine donated by a church member.  The program will last about one hour.  Let’s all try to remember to support Religious Liberty. 

March Vespers at the Lansing churc feature “Certainty of the Second Coming”  with Elder Ed Reid, Stewardship Director of the North American Division of SDA.  They are DVD presentations of his talks at campmeeting.  This week Vespers is at 5:30 pm.