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First Seventh-day
Adventist Church
of Tulsa
21 Days of
Fasting
and
Prayer
January 2-23
January 2, 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
Tulsa Community Service Center is looking for
● 6:30 pm ● Prayer Meeting in person at the
donations of old towels for use to clean in the
church and live stream at tulsasda.org
Center. If you have old towels that you would like
Friday to donate please contact Dr. Miller. Thanks for
● 8:00-9:00 pm ● Women’s Prayer Conference your help. — Ella Suttle, Food Pantry Coordinator
Call ● 605-468-8026, Access Code: 450698#
Prayer Meeting Pastor’s Visit Request
Pastor Samson
Prayer Meeting is in person
Sembeba is eager to
at the church on Wednesday
get to know everyone in
evenings at 6:30 p.m., di-
our church family! If
rected by Pastor Samson
you would like to visit
Sembeba. Prayer Meeting
with him, please fill out
will also be live streamed on
the Pastor’s Visit
our church website and on
Request online form
our church Facebook page.
available on our church website at tulsasda.org.
Worship Service
January 2, 2021
10:45 a.m.
Musical Meditation
Bruce Carrico
Welcome and Announcements
Invocation
James Davison
Praise
Now the Joyful Bells, Hymn 23
I Sing the Mighty Power of God, Hymn 88
Mighty to Save
Children’s Story
Worship Through Giving
Local Church Budget
Prayer
Tom Huff
Song of Consecration
Thy Word
Sermon
Pastor Samson Sembeba
Song of Response
Open Our Eyes
Benediction
Pastor Samson Sembeba
Postlude
Bruce Carrico
Announcements
Welcome! Special Offering for Wewoka Woods
A heartfelt welcome is extended to everyone
Wewoka Woods Adventist Center is about 40
who has joined us for church services today,
years old now, and many of its facilities are
whether in person or online through live stream.
needing major updating and repairs, such as the
May you receive Sabbath blessings as we
pavilion roof (rust is causing leaks), pavilion
praise and worship our loving, gracious, merci-
air-conditioning units (two of which are
ful Lord together.
completely non-functional), RV campsites (need
updated plumbing and hook-ups, etc.), cabin
bathrooms (rot is setting in around some of the
fixtures, etc.), and more.
Incoming Membership Transfer The Oklahoma Conference is requesting
members to contribute to a special Year-end
SECOND READING
Offering for Wewoka
Pastor Samson Sembeba from Choctaw
Woods capital
Seventh-day Adventist Church, Choctaw, OK
improvements to help
raise the many
thousands of dollars
needed to meet some
21 Days of Prayer Sign Up of Wewoka Woods’ pressing needs. You can
donate to the offering for Wewoka Woods in
You are invited to sign up for the 21 Days of
several ways, including the following:
Fasting and Prayer
● Place your gift in an offering envelope and
which our church will
mark it “Wewoka Woods capital improvements”
observe January 2 - 23,
● Donate online at our local church website:
2021. To sign up, visit
tulsasda.org
our local church website
● Donate online at the Oklahoma Conference
at tulsasda.org and
website: okadventist.org.
select the 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer page,
For more information and a video about this
which can be accessed from the home page.
project visit the Oklahoma Conference website at
okadventist.org.
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 will be embarking on a Minnie Bork
journey, 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer. Begin- Justin Bowen
ning January 2-23rd. Starting off the year we as a Pat Wewerka
church going deeper with God. The United States Church Finances
As a church we are excited because the Bible Discover Bible School Native New Day
tells us, “if My Missing Members Tulsa Adventist Academy
people who COVID-19 pandemic God’s Closet
are called by My Special Prayer
name will humble For special prayer call Prayer Ministries Leader
themselves, and James Davison at 603-801-7172.
pray and seek My
face, and turn
from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will for-
January Birthdays and Anniversaries
give their sin and heal their land.” We are excited 07 Triatmi Martin
for what the Lord has in store for First Tulsa SDA 09 Cintia Ramirez
Church, and we are also excited for what God
has in store for you.
Now, before you think this is a food-fast, we December Local Church Budget Report
want to clarify! This is a fast from anything that
December 05 Offering: $546.03
could be distracting you from your relationship
December 12 Offering: $1,865.04
with God. This is an opportunity to hear His voice
December 19 Offering: $1,857.00
and strengthen our relationship with Him as we
December 26 Offering: $1,603.29
enter 2021. There are a list of examples below of
Online Donations (Dec. 1-15): $1,714.46
fasts that you can follow, and if you have any
Total December Income to date: $7,585.82
questions feel free to contact us.
December Budget: $9,681.00
Examples of Fasts Still needed for December: $2,095.18
These are examples of what you can fast from,
— Judy Miller, Church Treasurer
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 $37,324.Calendar
Today, January 2
Sabbath School 9:30 am Offering Local Church Budget
Worship Service 10:45 am Elder Tom Huff
Sunset 5:20 pm Deacon TBA
Two Weeks at a Glance | January 3—16, 2021
3 5 6 7 8 9
9
914
4
●Prayer Meeting (see below)
6:30p
Sunset 5:25p Sunset 5:26
11 12 13 14 15 16
10
10
●Church Board ●Prayer Meeting
Meeting 6:30p
6:00p
Sunset 5:32p Sunset 5:33p
Next Sabbath, January 9 Events
Sabbath School 9:30 am January 2 - 23
Worship Service 10:45 am 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
Sunset 5:26 pm January 4
Tulsa Adventist Academy resumes
January 11
TAA MAP testing (formerly IOWA tests)
Offering Onward Oklahoma 2%
Elder Daniel Duffy January 12
Deacon TBA Church Board Meeting, 6:00 pmChurch Music Notes
Prelude Music hymn were spoken a line at a time and sung to
The Prelude today is a meditative keyboard familiar tunes which the congregation knew by
arrangement by Roger House of Blessed heart. George Root, the composer of the tune for
Assurance (words with Hymn No. 462). Phoebe this hymn, at age 13 could play 13 instruments!
Knapp composed this tune in 1873 and brought He was also later the teacher of the beloved blind
it to blind hymnwriter Fanny Crosby in Brooklyn. hymn writer, Fanny Crosby. He also wrote in our
“Play it for me on the organ,” Crosby said. Knapp hymnal “When He Cometh”; “O Where Are the
did and then asked, “What does this tune say?” Reapers?”; and “The Lord Is in His Holy Temple.”
She turned to see Fanny Crosby kneeling in Another Song of Praise is Mighty to Save,
prayer. Knapp played it a second time and then a written by Hillsong United musicians, Reuben Mor-
third. Then the blind woman responded, “That gan and Ben Fielding. The song quotes Zephaniah
says, ‘Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a 3:27, which tells us that God is “mighty to save.” Is
this Old Testament prophet speaking about the
power of the gospel to bring hopeless, lifeless
souls into a transforming encounter with Christ?
Or maybe Zephaniah was speaking of God’s heart
for redeeming those from every tongue and tribe
foretaste of glory divine!’ ” An interesting side and nation? This is the gospel. Though we have
note is that Phoebe Knapp’s mother had been done nothing to merit His favor, God sent His only
converted to the Millerite doctrine of the Second son, Jesus, to rescue us from sin and rebellion. He
Advent by Charles Fitch prior to 1844. She had is truly mighty to save.
come through the great disappointment of 1844
with her faith intact, also writing a hymn of her Postlude
experience, Watch Ye Saints (Hymn No. 598). How Majestic Is Your Name by Mark Hayes is
This sense of dedication she must have communi- the Postlude. This gospel song is by Michael
cated to her daughter Phoebe, and she through Smith. The words are based on the eighth chapter
her hymntune for Blessed Assurance, on to us of Psalms — O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is
today. your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above
Hymn of Praise the heavens. When I consider
Our Hymn of Praise today is No. 88, I Sing your heavens, the work of
the Mighty Power of God. Isaac Watts wrote the your fingers, the moon and
words of this hymn. He had been writing verse the stars, which you have set
from his childhood and at the age of 18, he in place, what is man that you
composed his first hymn using a paraphrase of are mindful of him, the son of man that you care
the scripture. Today’s hymn illustrates his skill in for him? . . . O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is
taking the words of scripture and paraphrasing your name in all the earth!” The song concludes
them into metrical verse to fit the lines of the with several of the Biblical names of Jesus, “We
music. In 18th century England, most of the magnify Your name, Prince of Peace, mighty God,
congregation were illiterate, so the words of the O Lord God Almighty.”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 2 ● 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 Adventist Mission in Euro-Asia
José Camacho Sabbath School Lesson Discussion
(918) 398-3572
Intro to the Book of Isaiah, Crisis of Identity
Email: juan5.39@hotmail.com
Bruce Carrico - moderator, Judy Miller,
Tom Huff, James Davison
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
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