Sabbath with the Pastor and Tammy- Oct 23rd

Welcome to Orchard City SDA Church!

 Church, these days, starts with a group time discussing the past weeks lesson.  It usually proves to be very interesting with one person leading the discussion and many others joining in with their thoughts and findings from their study. 

This last quarter of 2021 is from this guide. 

There are many other ways to go over the same Bible texts and questions and it usually enhances the learning. 

Bruce Cameron, a lawyer, has a very nice study guide online.  http://sabbathschoollessons.com/

Derek Moore has a good group lesson time on Hope Channel.  His printable guide is good to use for discussion time at church. 

These are just two ideas.

Praise Time with the Reflections team was very nice and lead to the children's story by Doug L and then to the the Special Music time which was Come Home, It's Supper Time by the Reflections Team with Denise playing ukulele.  She chose this piece of music as it is her mother's favourite.  It was beautifully done. 

Someone ( I think Heidi) made a nice few changes to the decorations in the church to reflect the autumn scenes outdoors.  It looks warm and cozy. 

Tammy was the well spoken platform person tying all the bits and pieces together nicely. 

Phones are up front lately as our bulletins are on there now.  So you might see someone reading from their phone when they are announcing the next item. Thank you so much bulletin typers.  We are very happy for this work you do each week. 

 

Doug telling the children's story.  A surprise one for Liza!  Doug had some great photos showing at church of Liza's 60th birthday ride of 60 miles for this momentous occasion!

Thank you for playing this, Denise. ( the ukulele) and to the others for playing and singing too. 

It is nice to see Pastor Josue preach using his Dad's big Bible. 

Showing the Zoom people the text. 

What a sermon it was this day. Have you ever had tunnel vision? Like about an idea or a surprise party like Pastor Josue did. He shared the story of their plan to go to a restaurant to pick up food for supper but when he got to the restaurant he happened to see some of the people he was getting supper for, sitting there at the table. He thought it was pretty rude until he noticed more friends and family there and they hollered out SURPRISE to him. 

He only thought of getting supper to take home to these people but there was a different idea which was even better. 

Luke shares the story of two daughters. Two families hurting. One was 12 years old the other had been to Dr's and having a medical problem for 12 years. 

One died before he got there,  the other was healed as she crawled on the ground to get to The Healer. She touched His hem and was healed. 

12 is mentioned 162 times in the Bible. 

It is a complete number. 

Both daughters were 'unclean' in that culture but Jesus touched both of them and made them 'clean' and acceptable so they were restored to their 👪 families.

Taking a story from the Bible and finding so many comparisons in the story within the story is like Pastor Josue called it - a sandwich. 

There are 34 times in the Bible where Jesus touched someone.

Let Him touch you. 

Let Him change you. 

Don't be resistant just because you thought something was a certain way. 

Let yourself get rid of tunnel vision. 

Let Jesus touch you and change you.