Announcements – 2-9-2023

Announcements:

Friday Night Young Adult Bible Study Meets at 7:00 via Zoom, with Lorena Salto leading. They are currently studying/discussing through the book of Galatians, and are currently in Chapter 5. The Zoom Mtg ID# is 849 172 6095.

Sabbath Morning Church Worship: We continue to meet in the sanctuary: Folks are still recommended to wear facemasks while worshipping, especially those who are not fully vaccinated.

Current Sabbath Worship/Activities schedule:

9:00 a.m. Spanish Sabbath School service – Fellowship Hall

9:20 a.m. Kids’ song service (all ages) in Youth Room

9:45 a.m. Kids’ Sabbath Schools in their age/grade-based classrooms

10:00 a.m. Spanish Devotional Service – Fellowship Hall

      Young Adult Sabbath School – room 304

      English Adult Sabbath School – sanctuary

11:00 a.m. All ages/languages church service in sanctuary (incl elders’ ordination)

3:00 p.m. Pathfinder & Adventurer Clubs Meet

5:00 p.m. “Sociedad de Jovenes” – bilingual closing-of-the-Sabbath program

Special Elders’ Ordination Service This coming Sabbath, our elders team will be expanding with the addition of 3 new elders coming on-board to help serve the church spiritually. Lorena Salto, and JoAnne and Darryl Lightford will bring new vigor and skill-sets to our Elder team (indeed, they have already been ministering quite robustly already!). We look forward to celebrating, affirming, and officially commissioning them for this next step forward in ministry, and for the next chapter of our church. May God bless their energies & efforts going forward.

Online Worship Options: If you are ever traveling, sick, or still prefer to worship from home, we have online worship options, live Sabbath mornings from 10:00-12:00 on Zoom (mtg ID# is 7053955673, with password 172569), or services being posted after-the-fact on our Anaheim Sunkist SDA Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfZrh44kEB7LJUy2c37XrFA

Kids’ Clubs of Pathfinders and Adventurers will meet at their usual time this Sabbath afternoon at 3:00 p.m. at the entrance to the fellowship hall. Both clubs have exciting up-coming events! Including a Pathfinder Skating night on the 18th.  A big thanks goes out to Margarito Gonzales, Mirella Velasco, and their teams of volunteers who help give the very best to our kids as they learn & grow in Jesus.

District Pastoral Search Committee will meet this coming Monday the 13th @ 7:00 p.m. in room 305/306. Search committee members, please check your emails for details & preparatory documents. All church members: please pray for success in finding a new Senior Pastor for our church who will lead us in the way God wills.

Food Bank Distribution: Today and each Wednesday starting at 5:00 p.m., our food bank will be distributing boxes of food from the youth room. If you or anyone you know could benefit, do not hesitate to come receive. We are also in urgent need of a new food bank volunteer coordinator: please pray for God to send us the right person. Thanks to all volunteers for all you do in collecting, arranging, and distributing the food to our community each week. If you would be interested to help any of 4 days per week, please let Pr. Mark know.

Mid-week Prayer/Book Discussion Group meets each Wednesday @ 6:00 via zoom to discuss a chapter of Patriarchs & Prophets together, and spend an extended time in prayer. Next week they will be discussing chapter 43, regarding the death of Moses. (which can be found online here: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/84/toc. Zoom meeting ID# is 705 395 5673, with password 172569. Come share some good discussion and prayer in an intimate setting.

Spanish Prayer Group meets Wednesdays at 7:00 in the Fellowship Hall. Ven para reunir con hermanos cristianos en un ambiente espiritual en el medio de la semana.

Orange Church hosting Testimony & Health Seminar Sabbath Feb. 18th: Michael and Lynn Harris will be coming to share their testimony, and give an afternoon health message @ 1:45 p.m. This is part of the “restoration in the Son” ministry. You can look at the attached flyer, or visit the website here: www.restorationintheson.com  

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