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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Principle of the Fulcrum It has been said that if you have the right fulcrum and a long enough lever, you could move the world.  It's about leverage and pivoting at the right spot. When you understand the principle of the fulcrum, probably for the first time, you are understanding what it means to be directed by the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit delights in men and women who follow His lead. He'll lead you, teach you and instruct you in the way that you should go. Psalm. 32:9 "Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, Otherwise they will not come near to you." When our lives pivot on the Holy Spirit - our decisions, our actions, our thoughts, and all that we are - then the principle of the fulcrum comes into play.  Is your life pivoting on the Holy Spirit? REACH Thought for today: Reach deep into the word and let God disciple you.  Reach out in seeking to evangelize the lost.  Reach up in worship with your fellow believers.  Reach for God.... We Need You As we gear up for the upcoming Halversen seminar, we need to have you involved in the seminar.  Our biggest needs are always greeters and row hosts.  But we'll also need people to enter information into our database, ushers, parking lot people, and in the kids areas.   Keep a look out over the next few weeks for the sign-up pages at church, or you can head on over to VancouverAdventist.com and fill out the form there. FYI - What's Happening 2/17 - Pathfinders at 7pm 2/17 - Finance Committee at 7pm 2/19 - The Gathering at 6pm 2/19 - Love and Logic - Teens at 7pm 2/22 - Church Board Meeting at 7pm 2/23 - Conference call prayer meeting at 6:30am 3/1 - Monday Prayer for Seminar Begins - 4 weeks at 7pm 3/26 - Halversen Seminar Begins See more of what's happening at the church calendar. Student Aid Requests Every year we help sponsor kids to attend our local Adventist Schools. The cost is above and beyond what some families can afford and our support of them helps them to have a quality Christian education.  It really makes a difference.  Please help support the "Student Aid" fund in your giving - above and beyond your normal tithes and offerings. LIFE Journal Many people are actually worshiping their way through scripture as the year progresses - getting involved in the LIFE Journal.  If you'd like more information, simply click here. Adventist Community Church.  9711 NE St. Johns Rd, Vancouver, WA 98665

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Fwd: Board Meeting Change

FYI - see below. 

From: "Jim Pope" 
Date: February 11, 2010 

Good Morning

 

I need you to make a comment in your weekly e-mail, all members who received tithe receipts need to check them against their records.  We are finding the conference has made a record number of errors this year.  Just last night I found three months of one members donations were listed as another members donations.

Haiti Offering Update

Our original call for the offering for Haiti was to raise money in the midst of disaster.  It's been called to our attention that there was some confusion as to where that offering is going.... 

There are two funds to give two - and rather than make several inquiries each week, we've been splitting the amounts to go to both of the offerings....  They are:

·         Code 3613 goes to ADRA.  ADRA does basic disaster relief around the world (excluding the US), and the funds contributed there will go to help whatever ADRA is doing for Haiti. 

·         Code 3737 goes to the North American Division.  This Haiti Disaster code is to specifically assist SDA members and organizations both now and in the weeks to come as they recover and rebuild after this disaster.

If you are uncomfortable with our splitting that and intended your donation to go straight to ADRA or the NAD, then please email Jim Pope before February 10th, when he sends the remittances to the Oregon Conference and let him know your intentions.

God Bless!

Roger Walter

Senior Pastor   http://bit.ly/qO3Vg

Adventist Community Church of Vancouver

FYI Vancouver - Happy Ground Hog's Day

Fwd: eCommuniqué ­ February 2010

If anyone wants to receive this regular email communique from the Oregon Conference, please send an email to: krissy.barber@oc.npuc.org and let them know, otherwise, I won't flood your email inbox much....

God Bless!

Roger Walter

Senior Pastor   http://bit.ly/qO3Vg

Adventist Community Church of Vancouver

Begin forwarded message:

From: Krissy Barber <Krissy.Barber@oc.npuc.org>

Date: February 1, 2010 2:53:33 PM PST

To: Krissy Barber <Krissy.Barber@oc.npuc.org>

Subject: eCommuniqué ­ February 2010

Attached you will find the February 2010 issue of the eCommuniqué.
If you have received this through a friend or church member and would like to be on the subscription list just visit the Oregon Conference website to fill out a simple subscription form or email the Oregon Conference Communication Department directly at krissy.barber@oc.npuc.org. Just ask to sign up for the eCommuniqué and let us know which address to email it to.

Have a wonderful month of February!

Fwd: Urgent Prayer Needed - Good news and bad news from Rome

Please pray!  See below!

Make a Difference!

roger walter

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Senior Pastor   http://bit.ly/qO3Vg

Seventh-day Adventist Community Church of Vancouver

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Trish Ballard" <Trish.Ballard@oc.npuc.org>

Date: February 1, 2010 2:13:20 PM PST

Subject: Urgent Prayer Needed - Good news and bad news from Rome

 

Hi All:

 

THIS IS Something we all need to pray about !   Please note the following and PRAY that the adversary will not be able to hinder the Shawn Boonstra

series in Rome !

 

Stan

 

From: Mona Karst [mailto:Mona.Karst@nad.adventist.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 6:16 AM
Subject: Urgent Prayer Needed - Good news and bad news from Rome

 

Urgent Prayer needed!!

RE: It Is Written Evangelism Meetings in Rome

From: Yves Monnier [mailto:yvesdmonnier@msn.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:45 AM
Subject: Good news and bad news from Rome

 

From Rome

Meetings open in 5 days.  Anticipation is building up.

 

Well, first the good news.  Shawn Boonstra and Palmer Halvorson, Shawn's right hand man, arrived safely in Rome this morning.  They're tired but in good health and excited to be here.

 

Now, the bad news.  Within one hour of Shawn's arrival I received a phone call from the Adventist Union president.  His voice was somber and I could tell something was wrong.  He informed me that the local church authorities had seen our advertising about the upcoming series of meetings (praise God for all of our faithful members).  Consequently, they have set up a meeting with the director of the school where the meetings are to be held to inquire about why he would let a protestant group hold meetings there.  The meeting with the director will be tomorrow, Tuesday, and there is a real possibility that we will be denied access to the hall as a result. 

 

As you can imagine, this is a very serious predicament we find ourselves in.  All our advertising is directing people to that hall.  If we are unable to use that beautiful facility we will have to move the meetings to the nearest Adventist church which has a much smaller capacity.  Can you imagine the nightmare of redirecting people upon arrival to a different location and a church of all places?  In some parts of the world, that's no big deal.  But in a city like Rome it's easier said than done.

 

Someone does not want people to hear the everlasting gospel.  We are not surprised.  However, we need divine intervention.  We need you to pray.  Pray that the meeting between the school director and the local church authorities will go well and that we will be able to use their hall without any more problems.  Pray that whatever happens, God will see us through this storm and enable us to successfully open our meetings to the glory of Jesus on Saturday night.

 

On an encouraging note, if the local church authorities have noticed our advertising, it means that people are paying attention.  It has triggered an interest, a buzz among people.  Furthermore, the attempt to shut us down also indicates that something great and awesome is about to happen.  Otherwise, why bother?

 

Thank you for your faithful prayers.

God bless,

Yves Monnier

 

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