TODAY’S MESSAGE Please feel free to use this space to jot down notes from today’s message. You’re Invited Next Week as we celebrate Communion and Pastor Bill speaks. MariettaAdventistChurch.org www.facebook.com/MariettaAdventistChurch Bill Levin Senior Pastor 770-778-4017 • williamflevin@gmail.com Jeff Wood Associate Pastor • jeffwood@gccsda.com Wilma Zalabak Associate Pastor • zalabakmdiv@gmail.com Ted Dubs Associate Pastor • tdubs@gccsda.com Calvin Cummings Worship Leader • ccummings@southern.edu Jackie Payne Welcome & Prayer • Robert Escoe Hymn #249 • Praise Him! Praise Him! Call for Offering • Larry Lighthall Offertory Hymn #530 • It Is Well With My Soul Prayer Special Music • Wayne Salhany Message • Go North Ted Dubs Benediction Wilma Zalabak, organist Wayne Salhany, hymn leader NINE O’CLOCK Administrative Assistant/Membership Clerk MariettaAdventistChurch@gmail.com CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Thursday: 8:00AM - 5:00PM Friday: 8:00AM - 12:00PM 1330 Cobb Pkwy N • Marietta, GA 30062 MariettaAdventistChurch@gmail.com Phone - 770-427-7668 • Fax - 770-428-6793 Shawna Wood Children’s Corner Director • 770-427-0783 www.ChildrensCornerChildCare.com Bev Amlaner Carman Adventist School Principal • 770-424-0606 www.CarmanSchool.org Matt Jones Atlanta Adventist Academy Principal • 404-699-1400 www.AAA.edu The joy and blessing of Sabbath concludes tonight at 5:41PM and begins next Friday at 5:46PM. ELEVEN FIFTEEN Welcome & Announcements Songs of Worship Offering Songs of Worship Message • Go North Benediction Worship Host: Terry Leard Speaker: Ted Dubs December 27, 2014 WELCOME TO MARIETTA ADVENTIST CHURCH! We’re glad you’re here, and if we don’t already, we’d love to get to know you better. To help us do that, please take a moment and fill out a Connection Card found in the back of the pews. You can turn this into the offering plate or to one of the pastors. WHAT’S GOING ON Communion will be next Sabbath, January 3. Join us as we start this new year, recommitting our hearts to Jesus. Living Your Strengths Classes: There is still time to sign up for Living Your Strengths Classes beginning in January. Learn how God has created you and how best to utilize your talents at work, home and church. Sign up sheets are available on the Church News bulletin board or you can contact Pastor Ted or Pastor Wilma. YAMS: With the end of the year approaching and everyone’s schedules being crazy, YAMs will be taking the remainder of the year off. We will pick back up with regular Friday evening Bible studies on January 9. Christmas Cards: Please remember to check the Christmas cards boxes in the lobby by Sabbath, January 3 for any cards left for you and your family. The Church Office will be closed December 31 to January 2. 2015 Big MAC Daddy Challenge: Join us on Saturday night, January 17 in the Family Life Center as the men of MAC compete in a series of challenges to see who will win the title of the Big MAC Daddy. Concessions will be sold by Children’s Corner, and there will be more prizes for spectators. If you’d like to sign up to compete or be a judge, please email Brian Pruett at dabengals@hotmail.com. 2015 Women’s Spring Tea: This year’s tea is scheduled for Sunday, April 12. Planning will begin in January. If you’d like to help with this, please contact the Women’s Ministry team at macwomenministry@gmail.com. Prayer Request: • Sharon Garner’s mother passed away last Sabbath. Year-End Giving: Please note that in order for your donations to be included on your 2014 tithe receipts, they need to be: • Received in the church office by Tuesday, December 30 by 5:00PM • Postmarked by December 31or • Given online by midnight on December 31 Any donations received after the deadline will be included on your 2015 tithe receipt. Giving: Today’s conference offerings will go to GeorgiaCumberland Conference Ministries. If you’d like your gift to go to this, please mark your tithe envelope GCC Ministries. All loose or unspecified gifts will go to our Local Church Budget. You can turn in an envelope or give online at MariettaAdventistChurch.org. • Received in Church Budget last week: $12,945.15 • Received in Church Budget this month:$22,050.55 • Needed each month: $33,000.00 • Still needed in December $10,949.45 High School Retreat: All Adventist students attending non-Adventist high schools are invited February 6-8 to the annual High School Retreat at Cohutta Springs. Register online at www. registration.gccsda.com. Brochures are available on the Youth Ministries bulletin board. Attention Parents – If your little one becomes restless, we have the following options available for your family: Children’s Training Room: located behind the AV booth Mothers’ Nursing Room: located inside the women’s restroom, this room is for mothers and infants/small children only. SPOTLIGHT Go North Deuteronomy 2: 1-3 I. “Circling the Mountain” We refer to it as Wandering: No ______________ No ______________ No ______________ • Cycles: continually moving but never ___________ • We will mistake __________ for progress. II. Compassing the Mountain: 1.) It’s the: __________ you have never got victory over 2.) It’s responding the ______ way 3.) It’s never _____________ with the real issue III. How do we get past this life of circling the mountain, or this life of carnal cycles? There is only one way, Joshua 5 • We must allow the _________ _________ of the word of God to have its way in our lives and identify those attitudes and characteristics that are of the __________ and cut it away (crucify it). IV. You have 3 responses to this sermon: 1.) ___________ _____. Actively Disengaged 2.) Find it ________________. Not Engaged 3.) __________ _____. Engaged