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Toolbox for Life: Skills You Need to Thrive

How Exercise Strengthens Your Mental Health

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Rodlie Ortiz

Rodlie Ortiz is on the pastoral team of Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University where he oversees evangelism and Grow Groups. He recently finished his Doctor of Ministry degree in Missional Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He blogs regularly on modernekklesia.com and enjoys connecting with people that don't know God. He is married to Iveth, a special education teacher, and has two boys—Jonathan and Daniel.

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OPENING MUSIC

“Allegro Maestoso” • Felix Mendelssohn
“Fanfare” • Jacque Lemmens

WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP

Lindsey Pratt, Associate Pastor

HYMN OF PRAISE

“We Praise Thee With Our Minds”  •  words of 642, melody of 250

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

Lindsey Pratt, Associate Pastor
“Spirit of the Living God” • 672

WORSHIP IN MUSIC

“Be Thou My Vision” • Brenton Offenback

CHILDREN’S STORY

“Great is Thy Faithfulness” • arr. Brenton Offenback
Robby Raney, Pioneer Member

SCRIPTURE

Genesis 2:7
Ana Agustina De La Cruz Mateo, Pioneer Member
William Nordgren*

MESSAGE

“Toolbox for Life: Skills You Need to Thrive—How Exercise Strengthens Your Mental Health”
Rodlie Ortiz, Associate Pastor

HYMN OF COMMITMENT

“Not I, But Christ” • 570, st.1, 4
“Trust and Obey” • 590 st. 1-2, 5*

BENEDICTION

 

CLOSING MUSIC

“Toccata” • Charles-Marie Widor

 

Fellowship Dinner
Pioneer Commons

 There will be a fellowship dinner following the second worship service in the commons.

Offering for January 10, 2026

Religious Liberty
 

Seventh-day Adventists have stood firmly for religious liberty—for everyone—for more than 150 years. But do you know the reason why? Part of the reason is that, when our church was founded, almost every American state had Sunday-keeping laws on the books. Adventist pastors, farmers, laborers, and others were arrested, jailed, or fined for doing “secular work” on Sunday. Even Wille White, son of James and Ellen, was arrested in Oakland, California, in 1882 for keeping the Pacific Press Publishing presses operating on a Sunday! But that’s not the full story. The deeper reason why we continue to stand for religious liberty—in the courts, before legislatures, and through the pages of Liberty magazine—is because we want to reflect the character of the God we serve. He’s a God who created us in His image and who has given each one of us the freedom to choose whom we will worship. He’s a God who, in the words of Ellen White, “desires only the service of love,” which “cannot be won by force or authority” (The Desire of Ages, 22).

Today, please help support this vital ministry of religious liberty. It’s a ministry that defends not only the rights of individual conscience, but also the ability of our church to continue to do its mission. And as we face uncertain days ahead, your prayers and support are needed now, more than ever.
 

—North American Division Stewardship Ministries