THE CHURCH AT STUDY Sabbath Mission Study ~ 9:20-9:50 AM 4th Quarter ~ Trans-European Division Superintendent: Dave Tessler Song Service Scripture & Prayer Mission Emphasis Superintendent’s Remarks Children’s Sabbath School Programs ~ 9:30-10:40 AM Adult Sabbath School Classes ~ 10:00–10:40 AM Class for New Adventists & Visitors Disciple Class Adult Quarterly Class Filipino Tagalog Class Sanctuary Class Pastor Mark Ferrell Victor Carreiro Mike Martell Pastor Roldan Abello Tony Valdez Welcome! We’re glad you’ve chosen SF Central Church on this Sabbath Day to worship God, praise Him and study His word. Our Savior has invited us here to spend time with Him so He can mold us into loving and lovable, witnessing followers of our Master. Out of respect for our Lord, please remember to silence your cell phone or pager during the service. To all our visitors, please join us for a Fellowship Meal in the Loughborough Center downstairs following the worship service. We thank you for joining us today. SECOND READING Transfer Out: • Rachel Gerbozy to Ashford, England • Richard Tan to Redwood City English SDA Church WORSHIP SERVICE ~ 11:00 AM November 23, 2013 Prelude OUR CHURCH CALENDAR December 1 3 Women’s Outreach Ministry Elders’; Church Board & Business Meeting Welcome Announcements Worship Him in Song To God Be the Glory, #341 Tithes & Offerings Conference Faith Advance Doxology Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow, #694 Prayer OUR CHURCH THIS WEEK TODAY There will be a Fellowship Meal after the Worship Service. 12:35 PM Following Worship Service: Worship Him in Prayer with our Elders: Witold Kozlowski Piano Room (Please see ANNOUNCEMENTS for the other activities) 4:54 PM Sunset Children’s Story Tim Firman 6:00 PM Seminar Dinner 7:00 PM Special Music Weimar Academy ~ I Will Go and We are Surrounded TRUTH Is Still TRUTH! Seminar What the Bible Really says About Judgment SUNDAY Congregational Prayer As We Come to You in Prayer, #671 Prayer Cares Chorus Scripture Reading Nickolay Kotyrlo Revelation 20:1-3 Sermon Pastor Mark Ferrell 6:00 PM Seminar Dinner 7:00 PM TRUTH Is Still TRUTH! Seminar What the Bible Really says About Heaven WEDNESDAY 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting Seminar Room 7:00 PM Church Bible Study Seminar Room THURSDAY 3:00 PM Thanksgiving Potluck Loughborough Center FRIDAY 6:30 PM Prayer Meeting Seminar Room 7:00 PM Pastor Bohr Bible Study ~ (Please use Broderick Street Entrance) Seminar Room 7:00 PM Friday Night Vespers at SF Central 7:00-7:30 PM dinner; 7:30-8:30 PM sharing and study. Contact Victor Carreiro. 6:39 PM Sunset What the Bible Really says About the Millennium Worship Him in Song God Be With You Till We Meet Again, #65 Benediction Postlude Music use licensed under CCLI license # 1699232 Platform Coordinator: Michael Martell Head Deacon: Bob Evans Pianist: Weimar Academy Greeters: Joyce Hamade and Bombie Herrera NEXT SABBATH Speaker will be Pastor Mark Ferrell. Offering will be for the NAD Evangelism. NOVEMBER PRAYER REQUESTS Medical: Cora Smith General: Church Family and Leaders, Youth, Young Adults, Those learning new truths, Everyone’s Ministry. This Prayer List is redone every month. ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:15 PM Men’s Ministry Meeting Seminar Room Young Adults and Agape Friends (18+) Afternoon Walk following Potluck. Contact Tony Valdez. Church Choir Practice Sanctuary 2:15 PM Secrets Unsealed ~ by Pastor Stephen Bohr Seminar Room LIFTING UP MY CHILD IN PRAYER ~ Teleconference, Thursdays 9-10:00 PM. Conference Call No. 712-432-1500 ;Access Code:391696#. DESIRE OF AGES ~ Teleconference, Sundays 8-9:00 PM. Phone number: 712-432-1500, Access code: 349372. \ THANKSGIVING POTLUCK ~ November 28, 2013 at 3:00 PM. Additional information to follow. REMINDER TO PARENTS ~ Always keep track of where your children are after Sabbath School has adjourned. POTLUCK ~ There will be a Fellowship Meal after the Worship Service today. You are all invited! PARKING LOT REMINDER ~ Did you park in the middle of the church parking lot today? If so, please move your car immediately after the service so that other members who need to leave will not be blocked in. Thank you! THE PARKING LOT will be locked after our Church activities today. CONTACT US Church Office sfcentralchurch@gmail.com 415-921-9016 Pastor Mark Ferrell sda1844@hotmail.com 650-851-7792 Pastor Roldan Abello abellomr@yahoo.com 415-707-9125 Head Elder, Alex Jayme raxsel@live.com Head Deacon, Bob Evans 510-541-7114 415-334-7547 San Francisco Adventist School 415-585-5550 What Is Faith? Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1. It is not essential to the exercise of faith that the feelings should be wrought up to a high pitch of excitement; neither is it necessary, in order to gain the hearing of the Lord, that our petitions should be noisy, or attended with physical exercise. It is true that Satan frequently creates in the heart of the suppliant such a conflict with doubt and temptation that strong cries and tears are involuntarily forced from him; and it is also true that the penitent's sense of guilt is sometimes so great that a repentance commensurate with his sin causes him to experience an agony that finds vent in cries and groans, which the compassionate Saviour hears with pity. But Jesus does not fail to answer the silent prayer of faith. He who simply takes God at His word, and reaches out to connect himself with the Saviour, will receive His blessing in return. Faith is not feeling. True faith is in no sense allied to presumption. Only he who has true faith is secure against presumption, for presumption is Satan's counterfeit of faith. Faith claims God's promises, and brings forth fruit in obedience. Presumption also claims the promises, but uses them as Satan did, to excuse transgression. Faith would have led our first parents to trust the love of God and to obey His commands. Presumption led them to transgress His law, believing that His great love would save them from the consequences of their sin. It is not faith that claims the favor of Heaven without complying with the conditions on which mercy is to be granted. Genuine faith has its foundation in the promises and provisions of the Scriptures. To abide in faith is to put aside feeling and selfish desires, to walk humbly with the Lord, to appropriate His promises, and apply them to all occasions, believing that God will work out His own plans and purposes in your heart and life. The Faith I Live By, page 123 Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, Would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky. San Francisco Central Seventh-day Adventist Church 2889 California Street San Francisco, CA 94115 November 23, 2013 www.sfcentral.org