(Photo Courtesy Toledo Junior Academy - Education Day 2018)
Theological Hmm: Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. - Bertrand Russell, atheist
Coming soon:
- NEW PANERA BREAD HOURS BEGIN OCT 5 available tomorrow (and every Friday) 8:00 - 9:00am. But starting OCT 5, the hours will be 9:00-10:00am. Come through east canopy doors
- COMMUNION OCT 6 is this week! Join us as we re-commit our lives to love and serve to the very end
- SEVEN BLESSINGS OF REVELATION continue this week 10/6 (in addition 10/20, and 11/3). Join us as we take a closer look at the seven blessings found in the book of Revelation
- WELCOME Our new 1st and 2nd grade teacher at TJA, Janessa Garmon, will be officially joining TF this Sabbath. Make sure you welcome her and her husband Aaron! We're so glad they're both here!
- HARVEST PARTY AND HAYRIDE OCT 6 Plan to meet at the Case Farm this SAT evening about 6:30pm for worship, food, fun, and fellowship. There will be plenty of good food and music around the fire and a peaceful ride around one or two of the farm’s fields on a hay wagon. When you come be sure to bring a friend or two! Address: 8815 County Road M, Delta, OH 43515
- 3Q FINANCIAL UPDATE Three-fourths through 2018, our church treasurer Duane shares that we have received 68% ($103,447) of the anticipated $151,340 we need for local church budget. Thanks for your cheerful financial support!
- CARDS FOR SOLDIERS TUE OCT 9 at 6:30 - 8:30pm in the Fellowship Room. Everything to make these cards is pre-cut and will need to be assembled. These cards are blank on the inside, so the service person can write their own note and send it to someone back home. Everyone is invited to help. Please bring scissors and scrapbooking adhesive if you have them. All we are asking is to please let Brenda Szana know if you will be attending so she can know how many to plan for. Any questions, please contact Brenda Szana at 419-356-3719 or HappyScrapper64@bex.net
- SOUP FOR YOU CONTINUES WED OCT 10 Discussion of the book, Searching for the God of Grace, by retired Adventist pastor Stuart Tyner, begins at 6:30pm. Books are available in the church office for a donation of $5. Let us show you how to lead a small group. Then you can tell others how somewhere else. Would make a great Six Week Group book (11/7; 11/14; 11/28; 12/5; 12/12; 12/19)!
- ADVENTIST SINGLE ADULE MINISTRIES RETREAT OCT 12-14 at Camp Mt. Aetna in Hagerstown, MD is set for OCT 12-14. For more info contact Susan Mayo: 215-850-7825 or susanmayo56@gmail.com
- BIBLE MUSEUM FIELD TRIP TO WASHINGTON DC OCT 12-15 leaves noon from church Friday, OCT 12, tour the Bible Museum on Sabbath and on Sunday visit historical sights like the Lincoln Memorial, White House and Jefferson Memorial. Return Monday evening, OCT 15. We have had one cancellation and do have some space still available so contact me ASAP if you're interested in going
- CAMPUS MINISTRIES OCT 13 The Ohio Conference invites you for a (free) day of training for Campus Ministries on Sabbath, OCT 13, 10am - 6pm at Worthington SDA Church, Worthington, Ohio. Anybody interested in representing Toledo First? Guest speaker is Anthony Bosman. Please contact Edward Marton at 567-274-7087 or emarton@ohioadventist.org
- BAPTISM OCT 20 David Pate is getting baptized and his wife Cindy is transferring to TF from another Adventist church in Florida. Let's not miss welcoming them either!
- PLATFORM SET UP SAT OCT 20 We need all hands (and drills) on deck to help assemble the bell choir platforms in the sanctuary starting at 7pm. Join us! Set up continues SUN OCT 21 as well
- VEGGIE FOOD ORDERS DUE TUE OCT 23 Forms are on the table in the foyer. Discount sheets are also on the table if you missed them last week. Orders are due OCT 23. Delivery: OCT 30
- KITCHEN HELP NEEDED FOR RINGFEST OCT 25-27 Former TF member and dear friend Judy Riley will be here to coordinate the kitchen crew. But if you're able to help, please let her know you can! Please contact Judy Riley at 419-290-0558 ASAP
- OPEN TABLE TRAININGS SCHEDULED We collected ten apps and have two substitutes. They have been turned into The Daughter Project and now we're waiting for the trainings (10/27; 11/3; 11/17) to be completed. Please pray our Open Table volunteers
- ANOTHER NEW JESUS MOVIE Look for the 2015 movie entitled Saved by Grace about a surfer with an important decision to make. Here's some others watched and discussed on Sabbath. What's your fave? Grace UnPlugged; End of the Spear; The Mission; Beautifully Broken; Running for Grace; Steve McQueen: American Icon; The Resurrection of Gavin Stone; Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed; Is Genesis History?; God's Not Dead; Fireproof; War Room; The Case for Christ; The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry; Amazing Grace; Once I Was a Beehive; I Can Only Imagine
- PATHFINDER SABBATH AND PINEWOOD DERBY NOV 10 You are invited to worship, lunch, vespers, & Pinewood Derby on NOV 10. Our guest speaker will be Edward Marton, Ohio Conference Youth Director. We will be joined by Pathfinders from clubs all over Ohio and southern Michigan throughout the day. Everyone is invited to stay for Fellowship Potluck. After lunch, we will be offering several honors for the Pathfinders to earn. Supper for the Pathfinders will begin at 5:30. Then as the Pathfinders and chaperones go into the sanctuary for the evening (possibly with a snake or two), the Toledo First crew will begin weighing in cars for the Pinewood Derby. The race will begin about 7pm and races will continue until all the entries have had at least two races down the track. There will be snacks for sale during the race and we would love to have you join us for vespers and the race - maybe even race your own entry in the adult race. See you there. And thanks again for all your support throughout the year. —Linda Bilby, Adventurer & Pathfinder Director
- PERFECT GRACE! NOV 16-18 Tom Hughes will be here NOV 16-18 to talk about his new book Perfect Grace! – It’s All About Jesus. So make plans now to spend a rewarding Friday evening vespers NOV 16 @ 7:30pm, SAT NOV 17 @ 11am and 7:30pm, and SUN NOV 18 @ 10am. Free pancake breakfast @ 9am precedes the final presentation at 10am. $5 copies of his book ARE available in the church office
- YOUR HEALTH YOUR CHOICE JAN 18-20, 2019 Toledo First welcomes back friend and former member (when he lived locally) Dr.Charles David. He is coming to share how his medical missionary work around the world (I recently woke him up in Bangkok) has been received and some practical ways we can improve our health in the new year. So make plans now to spend a rewarding Friday evening vespers JAN 18 @ 7:30pm, SAT JAN 19 @ 11am and 7:30pm, and SUN JAN 20 @ 10am. Free pancake breakfast @ 9am precedes the final presentation at 10am followed by Church Business Meeting @ 11am
- VALENTINES FOR TOLEDO FEB 16 Save the date and time 7-8:30pm for a very special concert and evangelistic outreach effort benefiting another local non-profit organization here in Toledo. Join us!
- ISRAEL TRIP FEB 9-17, 2019 Nine days where Jesus walked! Round-trip airfare from Chicago to Tel Aviv. All taxes included. Buffet style breakfast and dinner daily at hotels. Double occupancy rooms. Fish lunch by the Sea of Galilee. Touring via luxury motor coach with fluent English speaking tour guide. All entrance fees to park and visiting sites. Price: $2,280. Financial assistance is available from church. Not included: Travel insurance highly recommended. Tips for guide and driver
- ONLINE BIBLE STUDIES The Discover Bible Study series is online. Anyone can enroll and complete them in the privacy and comfort of their own home minus all the USPS mailings. Good for friends and family interested in becoming acquainted with the Bible and finding answers for facing the issues and challenges you deal with every day. Remember and refer others to this website: biblestudies.com
- PRAYERS AND PRAISES Because we need to be praising God with our lips (Psalm 63:3), here's another alternative...email CathieH directly at heathcs@sbcglobal.net with your praise. Yes, it can be anonymous, if you prefer. Just specify in your email you don't want your name mentioned. You can still write your prayers & praises and put them in the box at the foot of the cross in the foyer at the courtyard exit doors. Cards and pencils are provided
- BEST COMMENTARIES ON DANIEL AND REVELATION Want a chapter-by-chapter, verse-by-verse practical but thorough commentary on the book of Daniel or Revelation from an Adventist viewpoint? Here's what I use and recommend Daniel: Wisdom to the Wise and Revelation of Jesus Christ
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NEW SERMONS Please see church website for sermon archives and more info at tfsda.org
- OCT 6 - The Fourth Blessing from Revelation (Pastor Mike preaching from Revelation 19:9) *Also communion
- OCT 13 - TBA (Dave Case) *Also DC Field Trip Bible Museum
- OCT 20 - The Fifth Blessing from Revelation (Pastor Mike preaching from Revelation 20:6)
- OCT 27 - TBA *Also Ringfest
- OUR WELCOME We extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, gay, filthy rich, dirt poor, y no habla ingles. We extend a special welcome to those who are crying newborns, skinny as a rail, or could afford to lose a few pounds. We welcome you if you sing like Andrea Bocelli or can’t carry a note in a bucket. You’re welcome here if you’re just browsing, just woke up, or just got out of jail. We don’t care if you’re more Catholic than the Pope, or haven’t been in church since little Joey’s baptism. We welcome service dogs and their handlers. We welcome Muslims, Jews, politicians, and sinners like us. We extend a special welcome to those who are over 60 but not grown up yet, and to teenagers who are growing up too fast. We welcome soccer moms, NASCAR dads, starving artists, tree-huggers, latte-sippers, vegetarians, junk- food eaters. We welcome those who are in recovery or still addicted. We welcome you if you’re having problems, or you’re down in the dumps, or you don’t like “organized religion;” we’ve been there too. If you blew all your offering money at the casino, you’re welcome here. We offer a special welcome to those who think the earth is flat, who work hard, don’t work, can’t spell, or come because grandma is in town and wanted to go to church. We welcome those who are inked, pierced, or both. We offer a special welcome to those who could use a prayer right now, had religion shoved down your throat as a kid, or got lost in traffic and wound up here by mistake. We welcome tourists, seekers, doubters, bleeding hearts...and you.
- OUR STORY Our church website at the very bottom of the home page has an excellent downloadable resource featuring our story and explanation of our unique Christian Adventist emphasis. It's called the Toledo First Assimilation Manual and if you've never read it, I would encourage you to do so. And don't forget, God loves you like crazy. And so do we (2 Corinthians 5:13-14 NLT)!
Love ye,
