Everyone Welcome
Adult and children’s Sabbath School meet at 9:30 a.m. There is an adult class in the sanctuary and all the children’s classes will meet downstairs. Everyone is welcome.
Everyone is welcome to attend the worship hour. It starts at 10:45 a.m.
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Weekly Church Meetings
Wednesday – 1:30 p.m. Midweek study
Sabbath 4:00 – p.m. End Time Events with Shawn Korgan
Food for Thought
Letting Go – “Now I commit you to God.” Acts 20:32 NIV
May 10, 1970 was also Mother’s Day – no doubt the most memorable Mother’s Day I will ever have! We were living in Wichita, KS, and Jerry was working with the pastor there for one year before going to the seminary. We had spent that Sunday in different church-related activities. We had come home for a quick evening meal, and then Jerry was to go back again for another meeting. However, his plans changed as he needed to take me to the hospital for the birth of our first child – making me a mother on Mother’s Day!
How quickly the years went by and soon it was time for our son to attend the academy. We were living in Abilene, TX, at the time and the academy in our conference was Sandia View Academy near Albuquerque, NM – 500 miles away! I have a very clear picture in my mind driving away from that academy – from our son – letting go. When our older daughter Lisa was academy age, we were only about 40 miles from Ozark Academy. Nevertheless, I missed so much the fun times with her, I finally just closed the door to her bedroom so I wouldn’t sense the empty feeling quite so much. Again – letting go. I probably should have been well adjusted to letting go by the time our third child Amy was ready to leave. But I wasn’t. She was the last one, and I have a distinct picture in my mind watching her drive away from our home in St. Louis, MO, to Loma Linda, CA, to begin her first nursing job at the Medical Center there.
Letting go – sometimes its people, sometimes its dreams. Mothers, through the years, have had to let go of one or the other or both. The very first mother in our world had a special dream for her firstborn son Cain. Eve had been promised a Saviour – Someone to save her from her tragic sin. Perhaps this son was the Promised One. When Cain murdered his brother Abel, she knew it was a dream she had to let go.
Rebekah had a special dream for her best-loved son Jacob. She so much wanted him to inherit the birthright blessing, but her deceptive plan resulted in sorrow for both her and Jacob. She needed to send Jacob away from his angry brother Esau, letting him go and never seeing him again.
Hannah wanted a baby so badly she promised God she would give the baby back to Him if only He would grant her desire. God gave her Samuel and Hannah kept her promise. When Samuel was probably only about 3 years old she took him far from home to work in the temple with priest Eli. She saw him only once a year – something I can barely imagine. Hannah knew all about “letting go.”
I read once that Hannah’s story challenges us to learn the hardest part of a mother’s love – letting go. Even though our children leave our homes they, of course, never leave our hearts or our prayers. How thankful we can be for the privilege of raising children and then letting go – committing them into their Heavenly Father’s love and care.
Sharon Oster
Prompting by the Holy Spirit – “Whether you turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, ‘This is the way: walk in it.’” Isaiah 30:21 NIV
Jerry and I were driving down 23rd Ave. on our way to the church for the first meeting of the Health Seminar. I was looking straight ahead and occasionally out my side window to the East. We were just ready to go under the overpass for Highway 34 when I felt a strong impression to look to my left, to the West. The heavy traffic suddenly seemed to clear briefly so I could see a boy sitting by himself leaning against the overpass. I saw no other adults anywhere near him and I noticed he had a backpack. For some reason, I could not forget that young boy.
For a few minutes I said nothing to Jerry, but once again I felt impressed to say something. I told him about the boy, no adults, and the backpack. We were sitting at the church waiting for the meeting to begin and I saw Jerry take out his phone and read something. Soon he handed the phone to me and said, “You need to read this.” I read an alert from the police about a missing at-risk autistic boy, his home address (about two miles from where I had seen the boy), a brief description of the boy, and the message noted he had a Spiderman backpack. I looked at Jerry and said, “I know I saw that boy.” Jerry immediately called the phone number listed if you had any information and told the lady what I had told him. Jerry came back to the meeting, but soon his phone rang. He said to me, “I have to answer this. It is the police calling.” They just wanted to confirm the information. Jerry returned once again to the meeting, but before long he was showing me another message on his phone. The boy had been found!
Jerry told me later had I not said something to him, he would have ignored the message on his phone since we were in a meeting. I was so happy I had listened to the prompting of the Holy Spirit – first to look to the West side of the street and then to say something to Jerry. I wondered how often we hear that “still small voice” prompting us to do or say – or not to do or say – something, and we just ignore it.
I had been reading about Moses and how he could have enjoyed the power and riches of Egypt. He chose to listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit rather than “enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.” (Hebrews 11:24,25 NIV) His wise choice led him to a forever home in heaven.
The Holy Spirit was also speaking to Saul (later Paul). Certainly Saul’s conscience was bothering him as he held the coats for the people stoning Stephen. (Acts 7:54-60) Stephen’s death “resulted in the conviction of Saul, who could not efface from his memory the faith and constancy of the martyr.” (Acts of the Apostles, p. 101) Finally, while on his way to Damascus, he was confronted by a bright light and God spoke to him basically saying, “Saul, why are you fighting against me? You know what you need to do. Now do it.” (Acts 9:1-6) In other words, Saul, just listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. “The conversion of Saul is a striking evidence of the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit to convict men of sin.” (Acts of the Apostles, p. 120) May we always listen to that Voice and follow His leading.
Sharon Oster