OPENING MUSIC
“Allegro in D” • Antonio Vivaldi / Frackenpohl
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Lindsey Pratt, Associate Pastor
“JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED”: A HYMN CYCLE
“Praise Him! Praise Him!” • 249, st. 1-2
“It Is Well With My Soul” • 530, st. 1-2
“My Jesus, I Love Thee” • 321, st. 1-2, 4
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
Rick Loenser, Pioneer Member
“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” • 290, chorus only
OFFERTORY
“Sinfonia in A Minor” • Georg Telemann / Matthews
CHILDREN’S STORY
Sanna Ortega, AA Student
SCRIPTURE READING
RaeAnne Prentice, Pioneer Member
Luke 9:23-25 NIV
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“Entrance of the Queen of Sheba” (from “Solomon”) • Georg Frideric Handel / Fisher
MESSAGE
“Return to Calvary: The Extra Cross (How to Radicalize Your Future)
Dwight K. Nelson, Lead Pastor
CONNECT CARD & PRAYER
HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone” • 328
CLOSING MUSIC
“O Love How Deep, How Broad, How High” • David Johnson
OPENING MUSIC
“Allegro in D” • Antonio Vivaldi / Frackenpohl
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Lindsey Pratt, Associate Pastor
PRAISE
“I Will Follow You”
“Be Thou My Vision”
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
Rick Loenser, Pioneer Member
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“Entrance of the Queen of Sheba” (from “Solomon”) • Georg Frideric Handel / Fisher
OFFERTORY
“Sinfonia in A Minor” • Georg Telemann / Matthews
CHILDREN’S STORY
Sanna Ortega, AA Student
PRAISE
“The Wonderful Cross”
“Total Praise”
MESSAGE
“Return to Calvary: The Extra Cross (How to Radicalize Your Future)
Dwight K. Nelson, Lead Pastor
CONNECT CARD & PRAYER
HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone” • 328
CLOSING MUSIC
“O Love How Deep, How Broad, How High” • David Johnson
Offering for January 3, 2026
Pioneer Operating Budget
There is something special about the beginning of a new year. It’s the energy and the excitement. It’s the opportunities that it offers. It provides the chance to forget the past and its challenges, while we embrace the possibility to start over.
The New Year offers the opportunity for us to look at the future with optimism and gratefulness. For this reason, I like new, don’t you? Paul liked the idea of new also. That’s why he encourages us to look towards the future instead of looking back. He says, “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead” (Philippians 3: 13, 14, NIV), we should press toward the goal to win.
The encouraging thing is, when Christ is in the lead, we must succeed. For this reason, we can embrace the possibilities of the new year– striving to be better stewards for God. So may our goals this year include spending consistent time in worship and developing a relationship of steel with God. May we take care of our wellbeing (physically and psychologically) and witness about His love by using our talents and gifts.
May we faithfully return to God the designated portion of our wealth and take care of our world and the environment. Let’s determine to make 2026 an exceptional year of sacrificial generosity, in our local church and worldwide.
—North American Division Stewardship Ministries
Church Office Holiday Closure: 12/22-12/26 & 12/29-01/02
Please note that the church office will be closed from December 22 to 26 and again from December 29 to January 2 for the holiday season. We will reopen on January 5. Our church services will proceed as always. If you have any announcements, please submit those no later than December 19. Thank you for your understanding. We wish you a blessed Christmas and a happy New Year!
Christmas Blessing Opportunity
Be part of a Christmas blessing this year! Chiang Mai Adventist Academy, which serves primarily Buddhist students from around the country, is looking for a set of Bible story felts to use in teaching the Bible in their Sabbath schools. FARM STEW missionaries will be going to Thailand in January and deliver them. If you have a felt set you would like to donate or would like to donate towards buying a new set, please contact Deby Andvik. (andvik@andrews.edu or call/text 269-277-4145)
House of Prayer
Please join us for House of Prayer Wednesday evenings at 7pm in the Earliteen Loft for a time of singing, Bible study and prayer.
