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First Seventh-day
Adventist Church
of Tulsa
January 9, 2021
Our mission is helping people experience the love of Jesus
Opportunities
Come Grow with Us! TAA Health Food Store
If you are looking for a change, or for a new At this time, the Tulsa Adventist Academy Health
church, we invite you to join our growing family. Food Store does not have regular business hours.
Here at First Tulsa we believe that everyone has If you would like to purchase something from
something special and unique to add to our di- the store, please come to the TAA office
verse congregation. We would love to welcome during school hours and the secretary will
you into our membership. If this is your desire, assist you. You can also contact Rowland
please turn in a Connection Card (located in Knight at 918-381-9708 for an appointment.
pew rack and on the table at the rear of the
church sanctuary) or send a text on the Connect
Line. Place it in the offering box at the rear of
the church sanctuary. Need Offering Envelopes?
If those at home have been mailing your tithes
and offerings to the church and need offering
United Prayer Opportunities envelopes, please send a note (including your
mailing address) with your offering saying that
Monday — Friday you are in need of envelopes, and the church will
● 6:00-6:15 am ● Prayer Conference Call mail them to you.
Dial 605-468-8026, Access Code: 1013047#
Tuesday
● 6:00 pm ● Oklahoma Prayer Line
● Dial 605-468-8026, Access Code: 450698#
Wednesday
Tulsa Community Service Center
The Tulsa Community Service Center needs
● 6:30 pm ● Prayer Meeting in person at the
donations of new and scantly used blankets and
church and live stream at tulsasda.org
new socks for men and women. If you would like
Friday to donate either of these items, it will be so much
● 8:00-9:00 pm ● Women’s Prayer Conference appreciated. You may contact Ella Suttle at
Call ● 605-468-8026, Access Code: 450698# 918-633-1225 or Dr. David Miller.
— Ella Suttle, Food Pantry Coordinator
Prayer Meeting
Prayer Meeting is in person
Pastor’s Visit Request
at the church on Wednesday
Pastor Samson Sembeba is
evenings at 6:30 p.m., di-
eager to get to know everyone
rected by Pastor Samson
in our church family! If you
Sembeba. Prayer Meeting
would like to visit with him,
will also be live streamed on
please fill out the Pastor’s
our church website and on
Visit Request online form
our church Facebook page.
available on our church website at tulsasda.org.
Worship Service
January 9, 2021
10:45 a.m.
Musical Meditation
Bruce Carrico
Welcome and Announcements
Invocation
James Davison
Praise
Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Hymn 100
To God Be the Glory, Hymn 341
Lord, I Lift Your Name on High
Children’s Story
Worship Through Giving
Onward Oklahoma 2%
Prayer
Daniel Duffy
Song of Consecration
What a Friend, Hymn 499
Sermon
Sermon Series | Below the Surface
Pastor Samson Sembeba
Song of Response
Step by Step
Benediction
Pastor Samson Sembeba
Postlude
Bruce Carrico
Announcements
Welcome! OK Conf. Mom - Daughter Tea Party
A heartfelt welcome is extended to everyone
The Oklahoma Conference Children’s Ministries
who has joined us for church services today,
is sponsoring a Mother - Daughter Tea Party at
whether in person or online through live stream.
the Bricktown Sheraton Hotel in Oklahoma City
May you receive Sabbath blessings as we
on Sunday, February 28 at 2:00 p.m. The party
praise and worship our loving, gracious, merci-
is for mothers and
ful Lord together.
daughters ages 3 -
13. Registration is
$15 per person and
opens January 14 on
January Church Board Meeting the Oklahoma
Conference website
Our regularly scheduled Church Board Meeting
at okadventist.org. Space is limited due to
will be Tuesday, January 12 at 6:00 p.m. via
COVID restrictions and masks will be required.
Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to board
members prior to the meeting.
New It is Written Online Evangelism
21 Days of Prayer Sign Up God’s plan for you is not to have a meaningless
You are invited to sign up for the 21 Days of life. He wants you to
Fasting and Prayer enjoy power-filled living
which our church will now! In this new online
observe January 2 - 23, series, Pastor John
2021. To sign up, visit Bradshaw will share
our local church website free, practical Bible
at tulsasda.org and messages to help you experience a revival in
select the 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer page, your heart, in your home, and in your church.
which can be accessed from the home page. Join No Limits: A Life of Power January 24-29,
2021. Registration is open at nolimits2021.com.
Pastor Sembeba’s Blog
Pastor Samson Sembeba NAD NewsPoints Podcasts
has a blog on our church To learn more about what is going on in the
website at tulsasda.org. Pas- Seventh-day Adventist Church North American
tor Samson adds a new post Division, check out the new NAD NewsPoints
frequently. Check it out! Podcasts at nadpodcasts.podbean.com .
21 Days of Fasting and Prayer Prayer Requests
First Tulsa SDA Church is embarking on a jour- Justin Bowen Irene Makune
ney, 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer. Beginning Dan & Jonelle Jensen Pat Wewerka
January 2-23rd. Starting off the year we as a The United States Church Finances
church going deeper with God. Discover Bible School Native New Day
As a church we are excited because the Bible Missing Members Tulsa Adventist Academy
tells us, “if My COVID-19 pandemic God’s Closet
people who Special Prayer
are called by My For special prayer call Prayer Ministries Leader
name will humble James Davison at 603-801-7172.
themselves, and
pray and seek My
face, and turn
from their wicked January Birthdays and Anniversaries
ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will for- 09 Cintia Ramirez
give their sin and heal their land.” We are excited 11 Astrid Noemi Estrada Cifuentes
for what the Lord has in store for First Tulsa SDA 14 Robert & Debbie Childress
Church, and we are also excited for what God 16 Glenda Pifer; Dewayne Marler
has in store for you.
Now, before you think this is a food-fast, we
want to clarify! This is a fast from anything that
could be distracting you from your relationship
Dec. Local Church Budget Summary
with God. This is an opportunity to hear His voice $9,681 $10,032
$8,084
and strengthen our relationship with Him as we Includes local
enter 2021. There are a list of examples below of church funds
fasts that you can follow, and if you have any replenishment
questions feel free to contact us. Budgeted Expenses Received
Amount Amount Amount
Examples of Fasts
These are examples of what you can fast from, Dec. Budget Dec. Expenses Dec. Income
you can choose any of the following below but
the fast is not limited to this list. ● THANK YOU for your donations to our
● Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Local Church Budget! Please continue your
TikTok, Snapchat etc.) support so that vital church expenses and
ministries can be funded and maintained.
● T.V. News
● Being inside by spending more time outside ● Your contributions to our Local Church
Budget also enable us to replenish our Local
● Food (Not completely), Doing a Daniel Fast
Church Funds. Total amount needed at this
● Sugar time for Local Church Funds replenishment
— Pastor Samson Sembeba is $37,007.
Calendar
Today, January 9
Sabbath School 9:30 am Offering Onward Oklahoma 2%
Worship Service 10:45 am Elder Daniel Duffy
Sunset 5:26 pm Deacon TBA
Two Weeks at a Glance | January 10—23, 2021
10 12 13 14 15 16
9
914
11
●Church Board ●Prayer Meeting (see below)
Zoom Meeting 6:30p
6:00p
Sunset 5:32p Sunset 5:33p
18 19 20 21 22 23
10
17
●Prayer Meeting
6:30p
Sunset 5:39p Sunset 5:40p
Next Sabbath, January 16 Events
Sabbath School 9:30 am January 2 - 23
Worship Service 10:45 am 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
Sunset 5:33 pm
January 11
TAA MAP testing (formerly IOWA tests)
Offering Local Church Budget
Elder James Davison January 12
Deacon TBA Church Board Meeting, 6:00 pm
Church Music Notes
Songs of Praise my outer vision, but there is no cloud that can
Our first Hymn of Praise today is No. 100, keep the sunlight of hope from a trustful soul.”
Great Is Thy Faithfulness. The music to this hymn The words of this hymn bring to mind Revelation
was written in Baldwin, Kansas in 1923 by 5:12, 13: “In a loud voice they sang: ‘Worthy is
William Runyan. For many years he was an the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
evangelist for the Methodist church, but was wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and
forced by increasing deafness to give up this line glory and
of work in the same year this tune was written. In praise!’
later life he was associated with John Brown Then I
University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Mr. heard eve-
Runyan says about composition of the music, ry creature
“This particular poem [by Thomas Chisholm] held in heaven
such an appeal that I prayed most earnestly that and on
my tune might carry over its message in a worthy earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all
way.” The subsequent history of the use of this that is in them, singing: ‘To him who sits on the
hymn indicates that God answered his prayer. The throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and
hymn has since been used by many Christian glory and power, for ever and ever!’ ” Written in
groups, most notably the Moody Bible Institute, 1875, this hymn was introduced in England by
becoming an unofficial theme song for that evangelists Ira Sankey and Dwight Moody and
school. The accompaniment for the final verse is later rediscovered in America by Billy Graham dur-
by John Innes, organist with the Billy Graham ing his 1952 British crusade. It has since rightfully
crusade. become as popular in America as in England.
Song of Consecration
Our Song of Consecration is What a Friend
We Have in Jesus, Hymn No. 499. The composer
of the tune, Charles Converse, was a successful
lawyer who in addition to gospel songs, wrote
string quartets, cantatas, and chorales. The words
of this hymn were written by Joseph Scriven for
his mother in Ireland, with the intention of bringing
comfort to her at a time of sorrow. When first pub-
lished in 1865, it was credited to Anonymous. It
was not generally known even to neighbors and
The second hymn is No. 341, To God Be the friends that he was the author. When questioned
Glory. This beloved gospel hymn was written by about it, he replied, “The Lord and I did it between
Fanny Crosby, of whom it was once descriptively us.” His own life was one of sorrow, when on two
said, “she is a blind lady whose heart can see occasions, young women to whom he had been
splendidly in the sunshine of God’s love.” She engaged died by accident and illness before the
herself said, “Darkness may throw a shadow over wedding.
Contact Us Sabbath School Program
● Spanish Adult Sabbath School is in the Chapel.
Pastor
● Classes for children and youth age 0 - teen
Samson Sembeba
are held in south hall classrooms at 9:30 a.m.
(269) 277-6252
Email: ssembeba@gmail.com
Adult Sabbath School
January 9 ● 9:30 a.m.
First Elder & Prayer Ministries Leader
James Davison Welcome & Opening Song
(603) 801-7172 Whiter Than Snow, Hymn 318
Email: 7jame7@gmail.com
Mission Video
Spanish Ministries Leader Academy of Wisdom
José Camacho Sabbath School Lesson Discussion
(918) 398-3572
Crisis of Leadership
Email: juan5.39@hotmail.com
Abby Duffy - moderator, Samson Sembeba,
Robbie Fraser, Don Williams
Church Office
Office Phone: (918) 834-6671
Office fax: (918) 834-6672
Church Website: tulsasda.org
Church Bulletin Information
Church Email: tulsafirstadventist@gmail.com The deadline for receiving announcements to
be printed in the bulletin is 11:00 a.m. on
Community Service Center Wednesday. Text your announcements to
Carma Fox: 918-200-2613 the bulletin secretary at 918-640-6540 or
email announcements to this email address:
bruce.carrico@gmail.com. Email preferred.
Tulsa Adventist Academy
(Pre-K — Grade 12)
Peggy Fisher, Principal
900 S. New Haven, Tulsa OK 74112
School Office (918) 834-1107
TAA Health Food Store
First Seventh-day Adventist
Offering canned & frozen vegetarian foods Church of Tulsa
To purchase foods, come to the TAA office
during school hours or contact Rowland Knight 920 S. New Haven
at 918-381-9708 and make an appointment. Tulsa, OK 74112-3938
Phone: (918) 834-6671
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