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.
We know that we all like our Sabbath afternoon programs. The vespers last Sabbath from the African-Carribean group was a well received blessing. We are eager to hear from you so we can plan a wonderful program to praise and honor the Lord. So let’s see what we can do for the Spring concert.”
Pastor David and Tennille would like to thank everyone for their prayers and for the cards of sympathy as we traveled to CA for the funeral of David’s grandmother. She’s resting in Jesus.