Last Sabbath in April

Dave had the interesting children's story.

They are growing up and can now sing a duet.  How nice it is when children are willing to take part in the church service.  

Pastor Josue having the sermon.

 Thank you Beverly for getting some moments in photos of this Sabbath while I was away.
It helps us to all connect and see what is happening.
Thank you to all who share photos with our blog.

Fellowship Meal Sabbath April 13th

Vicki lead the Sabbath School time and she showed a video of her daughter, Danielle singing a very meaningful song.  Then she had this jar of carnations for any one to come up and take a flower to give to someone who they have appreciated.  It was a very nice SS time. 

David ended up with two of the carnations.  We do appreciate him at OCC. 

We enjoyed the OCS senior choir having three songs to share during the service time.
They did excellent. 

Tammy shared the children's story. 

She was eager to collect the offering. 

Pastor Jacob Hebert had our service and then following the fellowship meal he had one more meeting.  

A small portion of our tasty and abundant meal. 

Meet Nana Gerber ( Cherri ) and her little granddaughter Ayleigh.  What joy it is to bring your little one to Sabbath School and church.  Welcome baby.  

Getting Together on Sabbath April 6th 2019

It was good to be together as a church family and friends on Sabbath.
We encourage each other and listen to each other and care about the needs and joys we have.

This week it was good to have some children help with the Sabbath School.

Liza made wonderful empanadas from South America to share with each one and cookies were made too from the Children's Mission Quarterly from last quarter - lemon cookies from Botswana.

Hopefully everyone got some of the treats and enjoyed them.

Helpful girls ready to hand out the treats for a taste of Mission for 1st quarter from Africa and 2nd quarter from South America.   Thank you to Liza who made the empanadas and helped the girls get the treats ready for you. 

Learning about penguins and their eggs. 

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Doing the penguin walk. 

The older children's class.  

Wide Wide as the Ocean - High as the Heavens Above

Story time.

Pastor Robertson shared with us about John. 

Vegan Cheese recipe

Bonnie and Doug are the Health Ministries team for OCC.

They are starting a new idea that is to share recipes for us to try and to enjoy.
Here is the first one.
Let us know if you try it and if you liked it.
Send photos in too for posting on here.
This will be fun and yummy.

Bonnie telling us about this new idea.
She also shared a bulletin insert for us this past weekend to make healthy choices.

I would like to share with you the most amazing cheese like sauce I have ever tasted.  This recipe

is very versatile and can be used on baked potatoes, lasagna, quesadillas, macaroni and cheeze, pizza, nachos or any cheeze dish you like. 

It is very simple and uses ingredients you have in your home.

Enjoy!

Bonnie

Vegan Cheese

Ingredients

2 C. potatoes, diced large

1 C. carrots, diced large

1/2 C. water

1/3 C. olive oil

2 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. lemon juice (fresh is best!)

1/2 C. nutritional yeast flakes

1/4 tsp. onion powder (opt.)

1/4 tsp. garlic powder (opt.)

dash of cayenne (opt.)

1/2 tsp. McKay's chicken-style seasoning, vegan (opt.)

Instructions

Boil the potatoes and carrots until soft.

Blend potatoes and carrots together along with the rest of the ingredients on high in blender until the cheese is extremely smooth. I use my high-powered VitaMix blender.

Store in refrigerator for up to a week.

Notes

This cheese will melt just like real cheese! If it sets up a little in your fridge, just microwave it for about 30 seconds—it will soften up again so it’s easy to spread.

Adapted from Vegan Yumminess

Saturday Game Night

Another Sabbath Together

This Sabbath was 13th Sabbath, a special Sabbath to highlight some countries from our quarterly that we are sharing money with to fix or build new projects.

It is always great to have people to help out and make the program interesting.
We started with singing and this little band first.

Who knows where this flag is from?

Another tough flag to figure out. 

Sharing the flag info and then the facts from what is happening with the 13th Sabbath Offering for the first quarter of the year 2019.  We tried to get all the superintendents to help with this 13th Sabbath program.  Thanks for the help. 

Kumbaya to go with the African theme.

Then after Opening Song and Prayer, Glenda shared a mission story.
Dave and Vicki had us guess four different flags to see if we knew these countries that were in the quarterly this past quarter.
Some of the countries are not heard of too often, so it made guessing a little tricky.

Vicki shared some interesting facts and soon it was time for lesson study time in small groups.

Lesson study was lead upstairs by Pastor Bob... he did a great job.

Can you tell what he is trying to explain?

After the lesson study it was time for the church service to begin.

Heidi lead the song service along with her little daughter.

Little Helper

Lori captured our attention with her hat and birding tools.  She showed fun photos of birds to the children too. Thank you for the story. 

Collecting the Children's Offering from her Grampa. 

Special Music by this young lad... "Adoration".  He played it beautifully. 

Pastor Neil came to speak to us from the Rutland Church... It was good to have him here. 

It takes many different  views on the Pastor to have all the expressions come out. 

Look at the colony of ants.  They are a good example of harmony and being united.  We need to teach each other in community as a family of Christ. We need to extend love and grace and harmony. Colossians 3:13 and 14.  Forgiveness helps us to come together.  Remember the song, "Burdens are Lifted at Calvary".
It is like a factory - the queen does not boss the others around as each one knows their job and they just each do their part. Be of one mind.
( little bits and pieces taken from the sermon by Pastor Neil Peralta.)

New decor item... 

After church visiting.  

Thanks for coming to OCC.  Please join us again soon.

Daffodil fields in the sunset.