Today in Vancouver!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Is Jonah Real???? The Mission of the Adventist Community Church is to Reach Deep in Discipleship, Reach Out in Evangelism and Reach Up in Worship. During Roger's Sabbath morning messages, he has been unpacking the concepts of the Mission - Discipleship, Evangelism, and Worship.  This Week's message is on Discipleship.  Worship - last week's message - isn't built around the idea that the preacher did a good job, nor the program ran smoothly, nor that they sang my favorite songs.  Worship is about coming together to focus on God.  Worship is a choice, not a program.  And it's about what happens in your heart. This little girl had it in her heart: A little girl was observed by her pastor standing outside the preschool Sunday School classroom between Sunday School and worship, waiting for her parents to come and pick her up for "big church." The pastor noticed that she clutched a big storybook under her arms with the obvious title, "Jonah and the Whale." Feeling a little playful, he knelt down beside the little girl and began a conversation. "What¹s that you have in your hand?", he asked. "This is my storybook about Jonah and the Whale," she answered. "Tell me something, little girl," he continued, "do you believe that story about Jonah and that whale to be the truth?" The little girl implored, "Why of course I believe this story to be the truth!" He inquired further, "you really believe that a man can be swallowed up by a big whale, stay inside him all that time, and come out of there still alive and OK? You really believe all that can be true?" She declared, "Absolutely, this story is in the Bible and we studied about it in Sunday School today!" Then the pastor asked, "Well, little girl, can you prove to me that this story is the truth?" She thought for a moment and then said, "Well, when I get to Heaven, I¹ll ask Jonah." The pastor then asked, "Well, what if Jonah¹s not in Heaven?" She then put her hands on her little hips and sternly declared, "Then YOU can ask him!"   Prophecies Puzzles 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 3/17 - Finance Committee at 7pm 3/19 - The Gathering in the Fellowship Hall 3/20 - Communion 3/20 - Deacon's Ordination 3/22 - Community Services Center open until 3pm 3/22 - Prayer for Meetings (in the Fireside room, or on the phone) 3/23 - Conference call prayer meeting at 6:30am 3/24 - Pathfinders at 7pm 3/24 - Church Board 3/25 - Prophecy Seminar Organizational Meeting at 6:30p 3/26 - Halversen Seminar Begins - pray! See more of what's happening at the church calendar. 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. Prayer Needs Pray for the Upcoming Prophecy Seminar as we seek to mail to the entire county.  Pray that people will be open to the Holy Spirit.  Pray they will come out.  Pray that Pastor Halversen's health is good and his message is clear. Pray for the people in our congregation who are ill - several have had strokes recently, several are recovering from surgery, others are dealing with an ill spouse or aging spouse.   Pray for the finances of our church. Adventist Community Church.  9711 NE St. Johns Rd, Vancouver, WA 98665

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