CHURCH AT STUDY - 9:30-10:40 a.m.
Community Service is in need of donations of diapers,
Song Service………………………………………………………..
Opening Hymn……….…………………….…………...................
Scripture Reading…………………………..................................
Opening Prayer……………………………………………………..
Superintendent……………….Children’s Sabbath School Class
Lesson Study……...”Overcoming Evil with Good”…..Classes
10:50 – Personal Ministry –
WORSHIP HOUR - 11:00 am
Introit……………………………………………….. Congregation
*Invocation……………..........................Elder Cameron Munro
*Hymn of Praise…………....”We Three Kings”.................#137
Congregational Prayer…………………..Elder Sheldon Bailey
Offering………..”Ontario Advance”…………..Elder Bob Reeve
Praise & Worship………………………..……Women of Praise
Children’s Story…………………………………..Dayna Munro
*Scripture Reading.............”Micah 5:2”..............Sofia Gaspar
Special Music……………………………………..Jonathan Bartosz
Spoken Word........................................Elder Cameron Munro
What Was So Wise About the Wise Men?
*Hymn of Consecration..”Now Christian Now Rejoice”…#136
*Benediction………………………………Elder Sheldon Bailey
*Postlude……………………………………………………………
.Legend: *Congregation stands
Offering next week: Canadian Evangelism
Elder on duty – Elder Sheldon Bailey
Sunset Today: 4:51 p.m. Next Friday: 4:54 p.m.
Announcements
Notifications
1. We wish you a Merry Christmas as you celebrate this
season with family and friends. Christmas can be a
painful time if you are missing loved ones whether by
death or distance; it is our prayer that some memories
would bring joy to your heart, and that you would share
the holidays with others.
2. Membership Transfers: 1st Reading – Lucia Noemi
Hermina from the Toronto Spanish Adventist Church,
Marice Riwudjeru and Teresa Alvites from the St.
Thomas Adventist Church
3. On Sabbath January 6, 2018, Pastor Juan Carlos
Atencio and family would be installed as our pastoral
family. Do plan to be in attendance to welcome them to
our church as we begin this phase of our journey
together, and please keep them in your prayers.
4. Pathfinders Club next meeting Sunday, January 14,
2018 at 10 a.m.
5. Communion Service December 30, 2017
6. New Year’s Eve Service December 31st at 5PM
7. Parents and guardians, please be aware of your
child’s/children’s whereabouts at all times. Your
child(ren) MUST BE in your company at all times.
8.
baby food and other food items are welcomed. Please
speak to Teresa Ferreira or any member of the
Community Services Team for more detail.
9. Youth Ministries Department of Ontario Conference
presents IGNITE: PASSION, POWER, PURPOSE,
Youth Ministries Convention, January 12-14, 2018!
Enjoy powerful worship experiences, training workshops
for ministry, networking with practioners in their area of
ministry and engage in plans for the future of Adventist
Youth Ontario. All AY leaders, AY committee member,
young adult leader, youth sponsor, youth mentor, ACF
chapter leader and youth pastors are invited to attend
and register for this annual convention to launch your
year. You can't afford to miss it! #ignite! #ignite2018!
#ymc2018. Registration website operational by
next: www.ayoevents.com
10. If you are new to our congregation and you would like to
have your birthday included in the church bulletin please
inform the church clerk at larris.biggs@gmail.com or in
person.
 Birthday Wishes for December The Great Life
Dec 1 Hellen Orisi Dec 11 Mariana Sidabutar Dec 26 Yeni Gultom
Dec 1 Natasha Kubvoruno Dec 14 Lisa Dawson Dec 26 Margaret Yates
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the
Dec 1 Natalie Kubvoruno Dec 14 Loralee Dawson Dec 27 Holly Dowdell
Dec 5 Jeanne Munro Dec 16 Kristina Howick Dec 28 Cliff Munro world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled…
Dec 6 Bosljka Stupar Dec 17 Amanda McLeod Dec 29 Ray Thompson —John 14:27
Dec 8 Josh Catarino Dec 19 Teresa Alvites Dec 29 Nokuzola Ncube
Dec 8 Kibwe-Jahi Williams Dec 21 Randy Heath Dec 30 Denay Rial Whenever we experience something difficult in our personal
Dec 8 Philip Starczewski Dec 25 Dragan Maletic Dec 31 Shawna Thompson
Dec 9 Lynn Tait Dec 25 Lynette Williams Dec 31 Emily Reeve life, we are tempted to blame God. But we are the ones in
Dec 9 Sharon Reeve
Dec 11 Rwangi Hosea
Dec 25 Jeremy Joseph
Dec 26 Leah Stajfer
Dec 31 Elizabeth Haskell the wrong, not God. Blaming God is evidence that we are
refusing to let go of some disobedience somewhere in our
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ourselves and God, there will be difficulties combined with
doubt and confusion. Our attitude must be one of complete 805 Shelborne Street, London ON N5Z 5C6
reliance on God. Once we get to that point, there is nothing
easier than living the life of a saint. We encounter difficulties
when we try to usurp the authority of the Holy Spirit for our
own purposes.
God’s mark of approval, whenever you obey Him, is peace.
He sends an immeasurable, deep peace; not a natural
peace, “as the world gives,” but the peace of Jesus.
Whenever peace does not come, wait until it does, or seek
to find out why it is not coming. If you are acting on your
own impulse, or out of a sense of the heroic, to be seen by
others, the peace of Jesus will not exhibit itself. This shows
no unity with God or confidence in Him. The spirit of
simplicity, clarity, and unity is born through the Holy Spirit,
not through your decisions. God counters our self-willed
decisions with an appeal for simplicity and unity.
My questions arise whenever I cease to obey. When I do
obey God, problems come, not between me and God, but
as a means to keep my mind examining with amazement
the revealed truth of God. But any problem that comes
between God and myself is the result of disobedience. Any December 23, 2017
problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be
many), increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that
my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate
how He will unravel my problems.

Taken from “My Utmost for His Highest!” www.adventistlondon.ca

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