Manassas Seventh-day Adventist Church

Saturday December 9, 2017

Announcements Building · Sharing · Caring

Welcome! Everyone is invited to join us for lunch in the Fellowship Hall immediately after the worship service! Please fill out the Connection Card that you received with your bulletin today and turn it in at the end of the service to an usher or at the Information Desk in the foyer.

Visitors: We have a small gift for you at thein Information Booth in the lobby.

Flowers on the Platform - If you would like to honor a person or an event with flowers, there are dates available at the Information Window in the lobby.

Membership Transfers: Second Reading - John Serafica from the Northside SDA Church in St. Louis, MO. Kassy Ola to the Living Hope SDA Church in Haymarket, VA. Food & Fellowship: Our next potluck will be on January 6, 2018. Please bring enough of your favorite entrée, side or salad, fruit or dessert to feed your family and another family of visitors. You are needed to stand up for Jesus! Many people out there are asking for someone to come and give them a Bible Study. All of you are invited to learn to give a Bible Study to others. Pastor Mark Finley’s Team will train us on how to give a Bible Study on Sabbath, January 13, 2018, from 2 to 5:00 P.M. Please mark your calendar. If you are interested, call Ed Hill at 703-357-7862 or talk to Ed at Church. Manassas Church Choir Christmas Concert: Next week December 16. Invite your friend and family to come and celebrate our Savior’s humble birth during this beautiful musical program! Christmas Concert: December 23 at 11:00 am. Join us for a delightful concert with pianist Zele Leite. We will remember the Christmas story and celebrate our Savior’s birth with sacred hymns and music. A special offering will be collected at the end of the service for our guest pianist and his ministry to support those with autism. Agape Feast: This is a feast to start off our New Year the right way! Join us on December 31 at 6:00 pm to close out the old year on a spiritual note. We will have an Agape Feast communion service. It is a beautiful time of remembering God’s blessings towards us. It is also a time for clearing the record between us and God and our fellow man, so that we can have a fresh start to the New Year. Please bring one tray of either: fresh fruit, raw veggies and dip, bread and spread or nuts. Thank you.

Save Lives, Fill a Bottle! Care Net Pregnancy Resource Centers has a unique opportunity to minister to women and families as they experience the challenge of an unplanned or crisis pregnancy. Julie Overholt will be in the foyer with baby bottles please help fill them with coins, cash, or checks to help Care Net PRCs continue Revealing Life in our community! Please return the baby bottles by next Sabbath. Website: www.voice4life.org Tithe & Offering Receipts: Please print your name very clearly in all caps on your tithe & offering envelopes so the treasurer can properly record your tithes and offerings and you can get an accurate year-end tax receipt. Thank you!

Please Send All eNewsletter and Bulletin Information by Monday morning to Communications@msdachurch.org

Offering Today: Adventist Community Services/World Budget.. Offering Next Sabbath: Local Church Budget.

Sunset Today: 4:48 pm Sunset Friday: 4:49 pm

Prayer List:

Antonio Brown: He is in the hospital and has MRSA. His health is declining rapidly and now needs a lung transplant. Please pray for God’s healing. Basil Hickerson: He is home from the hospital and not doing well. Please pray for him and the family.

Dorothian Meyer: Georgie Sander's sister’s cancer has come back, please pray for healing.

Church Budget Report Church income includes loose offering and donations marked “Church Budget.” All tithes are forwarded to the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Make checks payable to the Manassas SDA Church.

2017 September YTD

Budget Donations $9,990 $88,434

Church Expense $13,835 $106,149

Over/(Under) ($3,845) $(17,715)

GGC Donations $4,330 $59,695

Conference Tithe $33,894 $280,851

Saturday December 9, 2017 Building · Sharing · Caring

9:30 am - Sabbath School/Bible Study

11:00 am - Worship and MAPS Musical

Welcome Announcements and Invocation ‘Caroling’ to the Lord

Invitation for Christian Education

Prayer Musical: “Twelve Days of Christmas” by MAPS

1. Overture

2. Lullaby

3. Behold the Star! 4. Clucking Song

5. On Christmas Night 6. Praise God with Trumpet / Sing, Choir of Angels

7. My Dancing Day

8. We Three Kings 9. Finale: The Twelve Days of Christmas

Benediction, Offering and Postlude

What are they that are by one?

One Faith, One Truth, One God alone, seated on His heavenly throne: God is our True Love.

For centuries, the period between Christmas and Epiphany has been celebrated in music and

literature as the “Twelve Days of Christmas,” beginning with the birth of Christ and culminating in

the visit of the three kings (the magi). In some cultures, Epiphany is a major feast day on which

gifts are exchanged and Christmas decorations are removed.

In 1625, a song titled A New Dial appeared in a printed collection. This song, also known as In

Those Twelve Days, ascribes religious significance to each of the twelve days of Christmas. For

example, the Fourth Day of Christmas celebrates Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, while the Eighth

Day of Christmas signifies the eight beatitudes.

The popular “modern” song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, has medieval origins. It first

appeared in print in 1780 in the children’s book, Mirth Without Mischief. A favorite “counting”

song for young children, it marks each day of Christmas with a corresponding number of birds,

maids, ladies, lords and musicians!

Our Story combines both the religious significance of A New Dial and the vivid, delightful images

of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Mary’s riddles are quoted verbatim from The New Dial. The

answers are religiously significant and are adapted from the same source.