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Toledo First Headline News - September 20, 2018
Theological Hmm: It's apparent from the book of Acts that the Gospel, rightly understood, starts a riot or revival. - Allan Wolfson
Coming soon:
- THANK YOU OPEN TABLE APPLICANTS We collected ten apps and have two substitutes. They have been turned into The Daughter Project and now we're waiting for the training and start date of our first Open Table group. Stay tuned!
- SEVEN BLESSINGS OF REVELATION Begin this week 9/22 (and continues 9/29, 10/6, 10/20, and 11/3). Join us as we take a closer look at the seven blessings found in the book of Revelation
- NEW CHURCH DIRECTORIES If you had your photo taken or submitted a photo, you may pick up your new church directory after church today this week
- EVANGELISTIC PICNIC IN THE PARK SEPT 22 Weather looks good this Sabbath. We’ll be giving away fresh-squeezed lemonade to everyone who comes by our tent. Join us!
- FAREWELL LURNA We bid farewell to Lurna Holness who left this week to return to Jamaica to care for her son who was injured recently. Lurna loved TF and has been an active and valued member for seven years. She didn't want a formal "goodbye" anything so...we'll miss you Lurna!
- NEXT CHURCH BUSINESS MEETING TUE SEPT 25. At our last meeting, we voted a new Fridays fellowship room policy making its use and the church kitchen unavailable until 6pm. Should a similar policy be in effect week days? Join us! In 2019, quarterly church business meetings will also be moving to Sunday mornings preceded by pancake breakfast
- SOUP FOR YOU CONTINUES WED SEPT 26 @ 6pm. Discussion of the book, Searching for the God of Grace, by 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)!
- EDUCATION DAY SEPT 29 is coming soon. This is a great day to welcome new faces and parents from our daycare and school. Join us for Fellowship Potluck at church. If you're able, bring an extra entree, and vegetable, salad or dessert and stay after worship to fellowship with new and old friends
- WOMEN'S RETREAT SEPT 29 Join women from across the state for this one-day event featuring author of the newly released book Teach Us to Pray. Click here to register and pay. Financial assistance is available from church
- NEW HOURS PANERA BREAD OCT 5 available tomorrow (and every Friday) 8:00 - 9:00am. But starting OCT 5, the hours will be 9:30-10:30am. Come through east canopy doors
- COMMUNION OCT 6 coming soon. Join us!
- HAYRIDE OCT 6 at Case Place in the evening. Save the date!
- 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
- TWO NEW JESUS MOVIES We just added some oldies but goodies entitled End of the Spear and The Mission to our list. Here's some others watched and discussed on Sabbath. What's your fave? 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
- 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 will be available in the church office or you can pay way more here : )
- YOUR HEALTH IS 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 just 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
- 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
- SEPT 22 - The First and Second Blessings from Revelation (Pastor Mike preaching from Revelation 1:3; 14:13) *Also Lemonade in the park
- SEPT 29 - The Third Blessing from Revelation (Pastor Mike preaching from Revelation 16:15) *Also Education Day
- 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,
