Thursday, March 18, 2021
Don't ever forget...
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Sabbath School begins promptly at 10:30am and divine worship service begins at 11:30am. We look forward to seeing our church family! If you cannot join us in person, we are streaming online and you can join us there. Either way, we look forward to worshipping with you this Sabbath.
SUNSET
The Sabbath is God’s perpetual sign of His eternal covenant between Him and His people. Joyful observance of this holy time from evening to evening, sunset to sunset, is a celebration of God’s creative and redemptive acts.
Sunset Friday, March 19: 7:37pm
Sunset Sabbath, March 20: 7:38pm
Devon Bass - March 21
Daphne Walker - March 21
Molly Win - March 22
Melissa Dalugdug - March 25
Octave Deverson - March 25
If you're not sure if we have your birthday, feel free to email it to PR@southpointsda.org so that we can acknowledge your special day!
ADULT SABBATH SCHOOL
Join us each Sabbath morning at 10:30am in the sanctuary or online as we continue to study Isaiah in the Sabbath School lessons. This week we will review Lesson 12, "Desire of Nations."
If you are interested in being part of the Adult Sabbath School panel, please email Elder Shelley Lewis at shelleylewis@southpointsda.org or text her at 904.504.7205. Be sure to include your name, phone contact and email address.
SICK & SHUT IN
If you know of a member who is shut-in and needs some cheering up, please send us their name and phone number and with their permission, we will list their name and contact information so that we all can reach out to them. Let's shower them with love this upcoming week and let them know just how much we miss them, and pray for God's healing hand.
Members requesting prayer and/or calls include:
Joan Parker | (904) 802-8534
Mark and Virginia Burgess | 904-714-5020
Cynthia Hill | (904) 733-1548 (welcomes drive-by with mask!)
Richard Boteler, Carol Fenstermacher, Reggie Fequiere, Jim Hambright, Wanda Jenkins, Rita Magruder, Elizabeth Nemchik, Reinaldo Robinson, Julio and Iris Rosa (Carmen Brooks' parents), Elise Toombs, Nona Williams and Cynthia Hill's sister.
COMMUNION SERVICE
Our next communion service will be held on Sabbath, April 3 during worship service in the sanctuary. For families who would like to participate in the communion service virtually, it will be live streamed and we will be offering pre-made sealed communion service kits (juice & bread) that can be picked up at the church on Sabbaths, March 20 and 27. During the week, they will be available for pick up on Mondays - March 22 and 29 from 11am to 3pm; Fridays - March 26 and April 2, from 9am to 11am.
How to prepare for communion?
- Examine yourself to see if you are in sin, either a known sin or perhaps something you are unaware of. This means to pause to consider your life. How are you treating the people close to you? How are you treating those in the congregation? With indifference? With selfishness? With disrespect?
- Confess any sins, known sin or sins that God brings to mind as you are examining yourself.
- Repent of these sins and resolve to take immediate steps to correct your actions or make amends, if you are able.
- Accept God's forgiveness. This time of self-reflection and repentance is not to give Satan permission to continually beat you up over sins of the past. Accept and believe in God's promises of forgiveness. We don't look backward -- our sins have been forgiven. We look forward to living with God the day ahead of us.
"For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (1 Corinthians 11:26).
RELATIONSHIPS IN 2021
After such an eventful or uneventful 2020, however you want to look at it, how are your social relationships? 2021 has promise to be a better year, so get ready! Come, bring your lunch and join us for our Young Adults Seminar as we go through Tommy Nelson's study on "Song of Solomon: God's Best for Love, Marriage, Sex and Romance" on Sabbath, March 27, from 1:30 - 2:30 in the Fellowship Hall.
TAILGATE LUNCH
Our Third Sabbath Tailgate Lunch for this Sabbath, March 20 has been canceled, due to the weather. See you next month, April 17.
Click on the picture to review a video
FOOD PANTRY
Be assured that this video was taken BEFORE COVID! Our pantry workers and the food recipients truly miss the personal touch they receive as part of this ministry. "Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Savior mingled with people as one who desired their good. He showed sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He invited them, “Follow Me.” (Ministry of Healing, p. 143)
Food distribution on Mondays - please do not arrive before 5:00 pm, drive-thru food distribution begins at 6:00pm. On Fridays - please do not arrive before 12:00pm, drive-thru food distribution begins at 1:00pm.
Volunteers are needed on Fridays, 9am to 12 noon and noon to 4pm. We also need volunteers that can drive on Wednesday mornings to do pick up for food. If you are interested, please contact Tina Ephraim, 904-476-3462.
SOUTHPOINT EAGLES PATHFINDER CLUB
Ready to soar! Will you join us? To be added to the Club Communications List, text SOAR + your name and grade to 904-373-8203.
PRAYER MINISTRY
"God has established prayer as the means by which we receive his supernatural help. And without supernatural help, we cannot live a life worthy of the gospel. Everything that distinguishes Christians from the world in a Christ-exalting way is a work of God’s supernatural grace. And God has ordained that this grace flows to us through prayer." (www.desiringgod.org)
Enter your Prayer Requests on the church website and our prayer warriors will pray for you! Experience the power of your church family praying on your behalf. The Prayer Ministry Team also has a prayer call for anyone wanting special prayer every Sabbath.
SABBATH MORNING PRAYER CALL: 9:00am, 3:00pm and 6:00pm. All are welcome! DIAL IN#: (425) 436-6332 CODE: 290307
ESTATE PLANNING FOR 2021
The Trust Services Department of Florida Conference is excited to provide a new, information-packed newsletter to Florida Conference members who have expressed interest in estate planning. Their goal is to alert members to how easy and inexpensive it is to establish strategies and techniques that will accomplish their estate planning goals while minimizing the hassles and expense of probate.
If you want to receive the link for the Zoom meeting below for more information, please send an e-mail to planned.giving@floridaconference.com or call 407-644-5000 x 2246 or 2241.
ZOOM SCHEDULE
03-23-2021 — Real Estate and Estate Planning (Enhance Life Estate Deeds, Avoiding Capital gains, Reverse Mortgages)
Additional Links
What Is Estate Planning? - youtu.be/1R7bObHkCOg
Estate Planning Basics - youtu.be/9tqHQE5vMoc
Visit their Facebook page: facebook.com/FloridaAdventistEstatePlanning
FREE BIBLE STUDY GUIDES
If you're looking for Bible studies to share with a family member, friend, or for yourself, you can find answers to your questions from a reliable source you can trust, the Bible! There are several Voice of Prophecy studies for you to choose from. They are easy to follow online, or you can order printed studies:
DISCOVER BIBLE GUIDES - simple, easy to use, and answer some of life's challenging questions.
FOCUS ON PROPHECY - Bible prophecy will come to life as you study these beautifully illustrated, easy-to-follow Bible study guides.
KIDZONE - Have your kids ever wanted to know the truth about something in the Bible that you couldn't answer? These Bible guides will help you find answers to their questions.
LIGHT OF THE WORLD - This course on the life of Christ is based on the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and reveal their eyewitness accounts of Jesus' life.
TROUBLESHOOTERS - Studies for kids having trouble at school, making friends and fitting in, dealing with parents' divorce. They can find biblical answers to their questions here.
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie
ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you are a ministry leader wanting announcements distributed to our church membership, please send no less than two weeks before your event to PR@southpointsda.org. Any member can also send their updated contact information, whether cell phone, email or address to this address, as well.
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