SABBATH SCHOOL

Lord of All

Nations (Amos) Amos 3:8

The Church at Study 9:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.

Superintendent: Gord Rayner

MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT Men’s Ministry – Gord Rayner & Team

WORSHIP HOUR Praise & Worship…………………………………………………….Choir

Hymn of Praise………………..No.431………………Over Yonder

Intercessory Prayer………………………………………Lo Richards

Praying for Revival & Transformation, Birthdays and Anniversaries, Wisconsin Conference

Next week: Single Adults

Offering Appeal….Conference Advance…..Jack Polihronov Next Week……Church Budget

Children Story…………………………………………….Diana Munro

Special Music………………………………………………………….Choir

Scripture Reading…..Revelation 7:9-17……Ruhinda Family

“Citizens of the New Jerusalem” Pastor Alex Golovenko

Song of Comt………No.208……..There’ll Be No Dark Valley

Benediction…………………………………………Cameron Munro

Sunset this Sabbath 8:21 pm Next week 8:30 pm

Please send all the bulletin related information to: bekorben@gmail.com

Announcements Today

1. Our weekly Bible Studies continues @ 5 pm today with pastor Golovenko presenting a Bible Study on Romans 7 & 8. Ever wondered what Paul is talking about “the good I want to do I do not”? Is the law culprit of our wrongdoings? Next Sabbath Bible Study will be an open forum of your questions and brief answers by elders. Come to continue this dialogue about our faith. We welcome your questions and suggestion of topics for study. For more details see the schedule in the foyer.

2. School Constituency meeting TONIGHT @ 7:30 pm. A.C.E.S of London calls all members of three constituent churches to the annual meeting, reporting on school progress, and development plans. This meeting is for all members, donors, parents will take place at 805 Shelborne Street, London (South) Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Tomorrow

3. Men’s ministry breakfast TOMORROW, April 28 at 8:30 am. The discussion book is “A Place for us guys.” How do guys, men, fit into church today? What is our place and role in family and society?

4. Tomorrow, April 28th spring clean-up continues with internal work – cleaning the basement & rooms. All members are welcome to come and assist deacons at work.

5. Pathfinders Club will meet tomorrow at 10 am.

6. The next Table Tennis club meeting at the church is Sunday April 28th 3-5 PM. Players of all skill levels are welcomed and basic instruction will be provided. If you are interested, please talk to Rixon Gultom or Don Topper.

7. CHIP Alumni dinner TOMORROW at 6 pm.

Later Events

8. College Park Youth Choir is coming Friday May 3 to conduct a vespers with our youth, and to offer a worship service and a concert on May 4. We are expecting about 40 people. We need help with accommodations. If our church families could billet some people, please speak to Angelina Polihronova or pastor Alex Golovenko.

9. GOOD NEIGHBOUR CAMPAIGN! Help us Survey the Needs of our Community. Youth and Community Ministries will go door to door to give Free 9V Batteries for smoke detectors. Please donate as many as you can until May 4th!

10. The May general church potluck will be held on Sabbath May 4th. Please bring an item from the section of the first letter of your last name. Feel free to bring additional items from any category. A-C Dessert/ Fruit, D-F Drink/Juice, G-I Salad/Raw vegetables, J-M Bread/Bun, N-R Main course/Casserole, S-Z Cooked vegetable/Soup. Please note: If you are bringing a tossed salad, bread Dessert/ Fruit, the kitchen staff would appreciate if you could bring it already prepared and cut up (since our kitchen crew often does not have enough time to do this during the service). Please bring a dressing for the salad if it is normally served that way.

11. We are planning a bus trip to either Canada’s Wonderland OR Niagara Falls this July. All those who are interested please sign the bus trip sheet on the clipboard in the foyer by May 4. We need to fill the bus of 56 seats to get the price of $30 per person for the bus ride.

12. Joint elders meeting, Saturday night, May 4, 7 pm at the fellowship hall. Elders of Spanish, South & North churches coming together to plan alignment and cooperation for growth

13. The next Church Council (Board meeting) will take place on Monday, May 13 at 7 pm at our church hall. We invite all ministry leaders to continue developing their annual plans and share reports at the meeting. Key item on the agenda will be church leadership practices and proper management of ministries. As a reminder following leaders are members of the Church Board: Gord Rayner, Clara Baptiste, Don Topper, Heather Baptiste, Janice Brindley, Gene Bernardo, Teresa Ferreira, Jack Polihronov, Angelina Polihronova, Ray Thompson, Alonso Lopez, Lo Richards, Dayna Munro, Lucy Simoes, Edwin Onyango, Kathy Rayner, Mike Keim, Rixon Gultom, Cameron Munro.

14. June 7-8, Southern Regional campmeeting will be held in Simcoe at Norfolk County Fairgrounds, 172 South Drive, Simcoe.

15. The Social Life Committee is organizing first camping experience this summer on June 7-9 at Fanshawe. Our Church facilities will be closed as the Sabbath School & worship will take place at the camp-site.

Notifications

16. Worship Schedule for the 2nd trimester, May- August 2013 is prepared and available. Pick up your copy to know who is leading in various aspects of our celebration services on Sabbath.

17. For members requesting subscription to Canadian Adventist publications, you can now make your request online at www.adventistmessenger.ca. Click on the top right hand conner "Subscribe", fill in your information and click "SUBMIT". You will receive a "Confirmation Email" as acknowledgement. Adventist World publication is on the internet at www.adventistworld.org.

18. Next Sabbath, April 27 after the church service we will elect delegates by ballot for the up-coming 33rd Quadrennial Session of the Ontario Conference that will take place August 23-25, 2013, from Friday to Sunday, in Oshawa, Ontario. Your participation is needed in appointing delegates that would represent our local church at these meetings. Delegates should be spirit filled men and women with the love of the church and its interests at heart. They are entrusted with the important responsibility of being a receiver and evaluator of the conference performance during the last four years. Delegates are responsible for electing the new board of directors, administrators, directors of departments and services, and standing committees. Our church will send two (2) regular delegates. Pastors are already delegates at large and do not need to be included with the church’s regular delegate(s). In preparation for this meeting the Organizing Committee is to be elected, which will meet in Oshawa on Sunday, July 28, 2013. The Organizing Committee is responsible for appointing the Nominating Committee. Only one (1) delegate will represent our church at this meeting. Pastor as a church member is eligible for nomination to this Committee. Same individual may serve as a general delegate and an Organizing Committee delegate too.

19. For all the events on the church calendar, booking of the fellowship hall, and ministry planning please contact Sandi Rusek sandirusek@hotmail.com

20. Sanctuary London – ministry for homeless is located at 513 Talbot Street Church. Following times are open for people to come and offer friendship, build relationships with friendless. Monday – 11-2 pm lunch, followed by 2-3 pm Bible Study. Wednesday – 3-7 pm supper; 7-9 pm art and writing class. Sunday – 6 – 9 pm – worship, bible discussion, fellowship.

21. Inviting ALL to our mid-week church service on Wednesday night at 7 pm. It is time for extra prayer, deeper Bible study, and testimonies.

22. “We are looking for volunteers, food donations and book donations for the week for VBS; if you can help in anyway please contact: Doris Van Leeuwen @ 519 452 7073.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS Apr 27 Simone Biggs May 2 Leanne Dowdell

Apr 28 Keenan Bancroft May 2 Mavis Owusu

Apr 29 Sara Mahon May 3 Debi Bernardo

Apr 30 Juliana Mantiri May 4 Joseph Beckles

REACH London – are you doing it? This week I had a privilege of leading children at our Church School through

a week of prayer every morning. I appreciate the thank you card I got where they shared in artistic expressions what they understood. As I was prayerfully considering what to share with kids, I was impressed to share with them REACH values, and to pray with them for our church family to embrace intentionally the guidelines from our church leadership toward the future growth.

We had to make it simple for primaries to get it through use of metaphors, stories, video clips and more.

This is what I learned: Revival – as we watched a time-lapse video of spring flowers coming from what

appeared a dead ground, we thought of resurrection that spring brings. Think of what happens to a dry desert sand when it gets rain – grass springs, flowers come from dry seed under the sand. We all need revival, we all need Holy Spirit rain to make us grow, flower and bear fruits! With revival comes transformation – we watched (video, of course ) a butterfly emerge from cocoon. And kids all agreed that we all need to change for better, to mature and grow! Education is discipleship! We read the Animal School fable, how duck leaned to

run, rabbit to fly, squirrel to swim and eagle to climb, and they all got poor grades in it. Proper education considers personal genius of every individual and develops different potentials. We even watch a clip from original Karate Kid, considering the importance of a sensei, a mentor, a personal teacher, instead of a “factory production line.” If education would be simply about transmitting information, then we could replace teachers with automated machines, like ATM replaced bank tellers, and plug kids in front of computers to obtain “knowledge.” Wisdom is caught, values are modeled by example. Education is discipleship. Who is discipling your kids? Who is modeling life for your children??? Alignment. A fable of a swan, a crawfish and a pike pulling a cart in three

directions, and not moving it all was our starting point. Are we pulling together, in the same direction? Consider following images: rowing team, synchronized swimming, a military parade march, a team of jets flying together – unless they agree they cannot walk together. Pray for our church family to be in alignment, to walk and work together as a team! Community outreach and Evangelism. The word euangelion, meaning the good

news, was used by children in Alexandria, watching grain ships arriving at port, and running into the streets to tell people that food is coming. Even children can be bearers of good news. Our youngest children already know people in need. As evangelists we all are called to help people in need, and to give hope for better. Watch a video of Nick Vujicic, a person without developed limbs, thriving in life and inspiring others to appreciate life – there is no room for self-pity and depression! Healthy leadership and Management. The last was the easiest – every one is a

leader, simply because we all could invite someone to be happy, to make someone smile, to make someone’s day better! And it’s all about learning to take care of what we have. This is my brief learning. Kids got it! You can learn these values too

your servant, pastor Alex Golovenko