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Walla Walla University Church of Seventh-day Adventists

212 SW 4th St., College Place, WA509.527.2800

Office Hours: Monday–Thursday: 8am–4pm

Friday: 8am–Noon

University Church Pastoral Team: Lois Blackwelder Alex Bryan, senior Alareece Collie Troy Fitzgerald Kris Loewen Jenn Ogden

SHOULD CREATIONISTS ALSO BE ENVIRONMENTALISTS? Pastor Alex will give the seventh sermon of the "I Love My Church" series today. It is entitled "Environmentally Green" and invites us to think about Christians' relationship with the created world. Please read Romans 8:19–23 in preparation for hearing the sermon.

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Mark your calendar!This spring, the University Church and WWU Campus Ministries are partnering to present a powerful collection of worship experiences celebrating Jesus' death and resurrection. All are invited to take part! Watch for additional details in future bulletins.

*More information at wwuchurch.com/bulletin. As always, our web-bulletin has additional Touches of Interest and events beyond those listed here. Family of God sheets at the information desk in the church lobby are also an additional source of information.

EVENTSSabbath, March 11 1:15pm — All-church potluck, Fellowship Hall 5:45pm — Sundown 7 and 9pm — "Seussical, Jr." musical, The Black Box 7pm — Adventist Singles vespers, SonBridge

Sunday, March 12 2 and 7pm — "Seussical, Jr." musical, The Black Box

Monday, March 13 7:30am — (M–W, spring break) Morning Worship, Heubach Chapel

Tuesday, March 14 7pm — High Five Talent Show, Heubach Chapel

Wednesday, March 15 6:30pm — Pathfinder Club, Fellowship Hall 7pm — Prayer Meeting, John 16, Heubach Chapel 7pm — Praying for Our Children, Gathering Room 7pm — "Evidence" Bible study, Youth Room

Thursday, March 16 6:30pm — J.U.M.P. youth group, Juniors Room

Friday, March 17 5:43pm — Sundown No WWU Vespers, spring break

Sabbath, March 25 4pm — Conversation with John Freedman, NPUC President, Village Church.

TOUCHES OF INTERESTAll-church potluck is today, Sabbath, March 11, at 1:15pm in the Fellowship Hall. All are welcome!

WWVA Drama presents "Seussical, Jr.," a one-act musical based on the stories of Dr. Seuss. There are four showtimes this weekend in the Black Box Theatre. (See "Events" below.)

Please join us in praying for WWU student missionaries. This week, we especially remember Julia McEdward and Meghan Spracklen, serving in Timor-Leste in SE Asia.

Elder John Freedman, newly elected President of the NPUC, will host a one-hour-get-acquainted Q&A period, Sabbath, March 25, at 4pm at the Village Church. Everyone is invited to attend.

10:00am RENEW SABBATH SCHOOL Havstad Alumni Center, main floor [WWU Students] DEFENDING THE FAITH WWU Prayer House, 103 W. 4th St. [WWU Students]

10:15am CHAN SHUN SABBATH SCHOOLRoom 154 [Steven Chinn, Loren Dickinson, Josefer Montes, Bob Smith, and Alden Thompson]

10:30amBEREAN FELLOWSHIP Melvin K. West Fine Arts Center, Auditorium CANADAY TECHNOLOGY CENTER Room 128 [Julie Scott] CHILDREN’S SABBATH SCHOOLS Newborn through 6th grade, Children's Wing (Begins with Family Worship, Heubach Chapel) CIRCLE CHURCH Fellowship Hall [WWU Students] ESCUELA SABÁTICA LATINO AMERICANA Kretschmar Hall, Salon 214 [Maria Gonzalez, Ricardo Guzman] FAMILY WORSHIP Heubach Chapel, (Preceding children's Sabbath Schools. All are welcome.) HAVSTAD ALUMNI SABBATH SCHOOL Alumni Center Board Room [ Jack Hoehn, Shawn McCrery, Ralph Stirling] HIGH SCHOOL SABBATH SCHOOL Youth Room [Troy Fitzgerald] IN CHRIST SABBATH SCHOOL Pastor Troy's Office, near Green Room [Scott Wagner and Troy Fitzgerald] JR. HIGH SABBATH SCHOOL Grades 7 and 8, Jr. High Room (Begins with Family Worship, Heubach Chapel) PARENTS’ CLASS Gathering Room, Children’s Wing SABBATH SEMINAR Canaday Technology Center, Room 105 [“Religion in a Social Context: Conversations”]

SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY CLASS Kretschmar Physics Lecture Hall [Theology Faculty] WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY GROUP Senior Pastor’s Office

9:30am

FIRST SERVESCHUAN CARPENTER, praise band leader

ALEX BRYAN, sermon, I Love My Church 7: Environmentally Green

11:45am

SECOND SERVICE Prelude Celebrate With Joy –Cynthia Dobrinski Rogers Jr. High Bells

Call to Worship Kris Loewen

Opening Hymn #93, All Things Bright and Beautiful

Adoration Prayer Kris Loewen

Children's Story WWUC Torchbearer Pathfinders

Pastoral Prayer Kris Loewen

Anthem Joy and Elation –Cynthia Dobrinski Rogers Jr. High Bells

Sermon Alex Bryan I Love My Church 7: Environmentally Green Romans 8:19–23

Offering Adventist World Church Budget

Offertory Kol Han'shamah –Robert Applebaum

Exsultate Justi –Rollo Dilworth

Rogers Treble Choir

Closing Hymn #95, Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers

Benediction Alex Bryan

Postlude Gaudio Exsultans –Valerie W. Stephenson Rogers Jr. High Bells

Organist: Kraig Scott Rogers Adventist School Treble Choir:

Patti Short and Megan Schwark, directors Rogers Adventist School Jr. High Bells: Patti Short, director

The worship service is live-streamed in Heubach Chapel as an option for parents with young children

who would find that location helpful.

WORSHIP NOTEWe are thrilled to welcome musicians from Rogers Adventist School under the direction of Patti Short and student conductor Megan Schwark. It is always a joy when these young scholars share with us. Today we hear the Treble Choir, comprised of students in grades 3–6, and the Jr. High Bells.

The choral offertory consists of two pieces, sung in Hebrew and Latin. “Kol Han’shamah” presents Psalm 150:6, “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” The composer, Robert Applebaum, spent a career alternating between music (composing and performing) and high school teaching (physics and chemistry) before retiring to focus on music composition. Rollo Dilworth is chair of music education and music therapy at Temple University in Philadelphia. “Exsultate Justi” forms a paraphrase of Psalm 33, and the translation is given below. As you prepare your heart to worship, please meditate on these words or on those of our hymns.

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just:Praise is fitting for the upright.Give praise to God upon the harp,Play upon the ten-stringed psaltery.Sing to Him a new song.Sing skillfully with a strong voice.

-Kraig Scott

GIVEThank you for your generosity to the local ministry of the University Church, as well as to the mission of the Adventist Church globally. Our yearly University Church budget funds all our local ministries aside from pastoral salaries. The following graphic compares the last three consecutive years' giving-to-date with this year's budget-to-date.

2015

80,732

2016

73,868

2017

89,868

2017 (Budget-to-date)

135,666