Volume 1, Issue 2

May - 2009

NORTH VALLEY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST NEWS

Pastor’s Corner

North Valley SDA

Calendar of Events 2

Church Directory 2

Children’s Church 2

CHIP 2

Adopt-A-Cop 3

From Here and There 3

Dollars and Sense 3

Birthdays Back

Inside this issue:

Special points of interest:

Communion May 30th

Church Directory

Dear Church Family,

I have been reading a book on prayer and I absolutely love it. The book is entitled “The Differ-

ence Is Prayer” by Ruthie Jacobsen. It’s a small book but the content is powerful. It reminded

me of how important prayer really is at this crucial moment in time. In Matthew 21:13 Jesus

said, “It is written My house shall be called a house of prayer…” Prayer really does make a dif-

ference and we need to spend much more time praying corporately as a church and individually

as God’s people.

Do you have regular prayer everyday? I’m not talking about just praying over your food but

actually kneeling down to show respect and then talking with God for 30, 60, or even 90 min-

utes. Talk to God as if He were sitting right in front of you and first praise His name for all of

the blessings He has brought into your life. (Psalms 100:4) Next spend some time in confession

and tell Him about your sin. He promises to forgive us if we will ask Him. (I John 1:9) Finally

end with supplication for your request and don’t forget to thank Him in advance for answering

your petitions according to His will. (Philippians 4:6,7) Remember to pray for your brother and

sisters in the church and for those who have not yet heard the three angel’s messages.

I want to leave you with something Ellen White wrote, “Often He delays to answer us in order

to try our faith or test the genuineness of our desire. Having asked according to His word, we

should believe His promise and press our petition with a determination that will not be denied.”

(Christ Object Lessons p. 145) Let’s make sure the North Valley Church is truly a house of

prayer.

A Fellow Disciple,

Pastor Mike

P A G E 2 N O R T H V A L L E Y S D A

Calendar of events

Church Directory

May 1st 7:00PM, Sabbath Meditation.

May 2nd

Sabbath Speaker Pastor Hewitt

May 2nd

7:00PM, Sabbath Vespers

May 3rd

9:00AM, Church Clean-up Day

May 4th

10:00AM, Women’s Bible Study

May 4th

7:00PM, CHIP Program

May 5th

Church Pictures with Olan Mills

May 5th

7:00PM, CHIP Program

May 6th

7:00PM, Prayer Meeting

May 7th

7:00PM, CHIP Program

May 8th

7:00PM, Sabbath Mediation

May 9th

Sabbath Speaker Bill Goad

May 10th

Happy Mother’s Day

May 11th

7:00PM, CHIP Program

May 12th

7:00PM, CHIP Program

May 13th

7:00PM, Prayer Meeting

May 14th

7:00PM, CHIP Program

May 15th

7:00PM, Sabbath Meditation

May 16th

Sabbath Speaker Pastor Hewitt

(Communion, Fellowship dinner will be moved to May 23rd

)

May 16th

7:00PM, Sabbath Vespers

May 18th

7:00PM, Church Board Meeting

May 20th

7:00PM, Prayer Meeting

May 22nd

7:00PM, Sabbath Meditation

May 23rd

Sabbath Speaker Dr. Jeff Turner

May 23rd

Fellowship Dinner

May 25th

6:30PM, RAPS School Board Mtg.

May 27th

6:00PM, Supper & Prayer Meeting

May 29th

7:00PM, Sabbath Meditation

May 30th

Sabbath Speaker TBA

May 30th

7:00PM, Sabbath Vespers

May 5th

Olan Mills will be at our church taking your pictures and

they will put together for us a beautiful church directory.

Make sure you have marked your time and try to be

there 15 minutes before your scheduled time.

Children’s Church

Children's Church for ages 5-10 has been focused on the Ten Com-

mandments. We learned that God created the Commandments to

make our lives better and to protect us. In May, we will

continue learning through sermons, sharing, and object

lessons. If anyone would like to work with Rick Cooper

on Children's Church, please contact him at 580-3416.

CHip

Our first North Valley CHIP program is humming right along. We began our program on April 13, and by the time you read this, we’ll be over halfway through. The last session is on May 19, and we will celebrate with our graduation banquet on Thursday, May 21. Twenty-five people are taking part in CHIP, with 16 of them being from outside our church. We have 17 dedicated volunteers helping out for three nights each week, and each of them, I believe, would tell you that they see the Lord really working in people’s lives.

Although it has taken a lot of hard work for us to get this far, and there’s a bit more hard work ahead, CHIP has indeed been the out-reach ministry envisioned by those who agreed to get it started at North Valley. We are helping people have better lives-lives lived more like God planned. And what joy that brings! But we still need the prayers of our whole church as we seek to do the Lord’s work and receive His blessing on it. Please, support us in prayer!

Thank you for your support,

Janis Goad, Assistant CHIP Director

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2

From Here and there

Maeguerite and John McGraw took a three weeks vacation to California April 7-28. Margue-

rite attended the 60th Anniversary of her Loma Linda School of Nursing Class at Loma Linda.

Her class and other classes had activities going from noon Friday until Sunday noon. On Mon-

day they drove to Long Beach and flew to Oakland, California. They spent the next two weeks at

Pacific Union College with their son and his family. He is Professor of History with emphasis

on Church History and Adventist History. Sabbath, April Week. In the afternoon Marguerite

met with alumni from Golden Gate Academy. She graduated from there in 1944. John was heard saying to

himself," these 80 year nurses and Golden Gate oldie can sure wear you out". Both Marguerite and John

McGraw were born in California.

Don't forget Camp Meeting. It is scheduled for June 16 - 20 on the campus of Shenandoah Valley Acad-

emy near New Market, Virginia. This is about 130 miles from Vinton, Virginia

The highpoint of worship in May will be on May 30. The early Seventh-day Adventist often called the member-

ship roll and member expressed their faith in Christ. Start planning now for this service.

The mother of Roni Stanard died in December. Roni has spent a lot of time in West Virginia since that time..

We express our sympathies to Roni and Kelly for their loss.

Church offerings for the Sabbath Morning Worship Services

May 2: This offering is the Church Budget. Let us all be generous with this needy offering.

May 9: This offering is for Disaster and Famine Relief. This offering is used around the world.

May 16: This offering is used for the Church. Look at the back of a tithe envelope, to see what is

used for,

May 23: This offering is used by Potomac Partners several times. North Valley Church received about

$48,000.00 for their building of our Church from this fund.

May 30: the offering this week is be used for the Spring Mission Appeat. At the close of the Communion

service an offering is taken to help needy Church Members.

Dollars and sense

Adopt-a-cop program

A great thank you for all of your prayers for our Adopt-A-Cop Program. They serve and protect us

each day, it is nice to be able to cover them and their families with prayer before our Lord Jesus

Christ. We served them dinner on April 26th, they really appreciated us taking the time just for them.

Remember to continue to pray for them and their families each day. Prayer really makes a difference.

May Birthdays

Bill Goad 1 Mason Ferris 23

Michael Howell 8 Michael Hewitt 23

Jackie McCormack 8 Russell Walker 25

Janis Goad 9 Dr. Jeff Turner 25

Joan Young 11 Dr. Tracey Criss 25

Rick Dunbar 15 Pamela Janna 26

Mary Dean 18 Charles Crush 29

Maria Sloane 18 Matthew Crush 29

Gerri Doshier 19 Matthew Deel 29

Maria Huffman 19 Frank Dovidio 31

Dr. Aubrey Kelley 20