Life @ Montrose, April 14, 2010
WORSHIP THIS SABBATH
YOUTH RALLY IN GRAND JUNCTION
On April 17 there will be a full-day youth rally at the Grand Junction Seventh-day Adventist Church. If you have young people please encourage them to participate. The featured speaker is Jerry Mahn, a dynamic youth speaker from the Kettering Church in Ohio.
ABC BOOKMOBILE
On May 9 from 4 to 6 pm the ABC Bookmobile is coming to our church. Orders can be placed in advance up through April 26 by calling 1-800-765-6955.
WESTERN SLOPE CAMP MEETING
This summer's western slope camp meeting will be held from Thursday evening, June 3rd, through all-day Sabbath, June 5th at Spring Creek Adventist School. The meetings will begin with a keynote by our conference president, Elder Gary Thurber, on Thursday evening. On Friday there will be seminars and presentations by our two featured speakers for the weekend, Elder Jim Nix, director of the Ellen G. White Estate, and Gary Gibbs, the associate director of The Hope Channel. Andrea Jacobsen, a highly desired youth speaker from Andrews University, will be with the youth in the youth tent. The ABC will also be coming out and children's programs are being planned. Please plan to save the date!
THE PASTORAL PERSPECTIVE
Gunnison: TBA
Montrose: Don Anderson is preaching a message entitled "Lamb of God."
ADVENTIST HERITAGE CLASS
The class will begin--despite delays--next week! Southern Adventist University has asked me to develop their online Adventist heritage class, which I will teach this summer. In preparation for this I am going to teach the class for members in our own congregation. College credit will be available for those willing to pay tuition. For anyone else who is interested in just auditing the class just to learn you are welcome to come, too (the majority of our church members who have college degrees already I suspect may find this class helpful as a review). Classes will begin on Tuesday evening, April 20, and continue weekly on Tuesday nights.
The class will begin--despite delays--next week! Southern Adventist University has asked me to develop their online Adventist heritage class, which I will teach this summer. In preparation for this I am going to teach the class for members in our own congregation. College credit will be available for those willing to pay tuition. For anyone else who is interested in just auditing the class just to learn you are welcome to come, too (the majority of our church members who have college degrees already I suspect may find this class helpful as a review). Classes will begin on Tuesday evening, April 20, and continue weekly on Tuesday nights.
YOUTH RALLY IN GRAND JUNCTION
On April 17 there will be a full-day youth rally at the Grand Junction Seventh-day Adventist Church. If you have young people please encourage them to participate. The featured speaker is Jerry Mahn, a dynamic youth speaker from the Kettering Church in Ohio.
ABC BOOKMOBILE
On May 9 from 4 to 6 pm the ABC Bookmobile is coming to our church. Orders can be placed in advance up through April 26 by calling 1-800-765-6955.
WESTERN SLOPE CAMP MEETING
This summer's western slope camp meeting will be held from Thursday evening, June 3rd, through all-day Sabbath, June 5th at Spring Creek Adventist School. The meetings will begin with a keynote by our conference president, Elder Gary Thurber, on Thursday evening. On Friday there will be seminars and presentations by our two featured speakers for the weekend, Elder Jim Nix, director of the Ellen G. White Estate, and Gary Gibbs, the associate director of The Hope Channel. Andrea Jacobsen, a highly desired youth speaker from Andrews University, will be with the youth in the youth tent. The ABC will also be coming out and children's programs are being planned. Please plan to save the date!
IN DORCAS' FOOTSTEPS
Tavia Wilson has put together a community service newsletter that highlights the many ways our church has been and has an opportunity to be involved in our community. Please check your box at church for her newsletter so that you can find out how to make a difference in our own community.
SCHOOL YARD SALE
The spring school yard sale will be on Sunday, April 18. As you do your spring cleaning this month, set aside those items that you don't want anymore and have them ready for this terrific fundraising event. Right now is the time to start sorting and separating and planning--it's a sort of painless way to help the school--and just think you won't have to have your own yard sale!
THE PASTORAL PERSPECTIVE
The past two weeks have been rather busy and fortified with lots of prayer. As I preached last Sabbath we each have an opportunity to press together and to encourage one another. During this time I've really appreciated the many things our church members do to build community and to point people to Jesus:
- I really appreciated our deaconesses, especially Judy & Jerilyn, who put together a wonderful meal to host all of the Association of Montrose Clergy pastors who we hosted at our church on April 8.
- We have some active young people along with social committee who planned a fun movie night/church social last Saturday night. We had a wonderful vespers where we talked about the spiritual lessons of the movie that we watched.
- I met a person in our community who occasionally attends our church, but is not a member, but she told me how much she loves our church and that although she doesn't attend any church regularly she thinks of our church as her home and that she hopes to attend again some time soon.
- Our elders the Sabbath before last spent most of their afternoon participating in two anointings for sick church members. I'm grateful for church leaders who are men of prayer and for a church family who continue to pray for others.
- I'm thankful for so many of our church members who go way beyond the call of duty each and every day. I think especially of this every time I go to our church school and see how many people help out. During the last two weeks we started a new baptismal class with five of our children at church school that meets each Tuesday afternoon after school.
- Last week, each morning I got up early and led out in a week-of-prayer in Grand Junction. The kids were attentive and I'm thankful for the opportunity to share with them. I was really impressed with their church school and the dedicated staff who make that possible. I'm also excited to learn that Maranatha will be helping them put up a daycare center building on their campus.
Whether we realize it or not, God is at work! Let's continue to stay connected to the living vine, Jesus Christ. By beholding we become changed--let's keep out focus on Jesus Christ!
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