Saturday, September 16, 2023
OPENING MUSIC
“Wake Up! A Voice Is Calling” • Wayne Wold
“I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light” • Wayne Wold
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Prescott Khair, Associate Pastor
CHORAL INTROIT
“Sanctus” • George Oldroyd
“A PURPOSE TRUE”: A HYMN CYCLE
“Dare to Be a Daniel”
“God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens” • words fr. 536 , melody 191
“Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service” • words 363 st. 1 & 3, melody 191
“Go Forth, Go Forth With Christ” • 377
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
“Our Father Who In Heaven Art” • William Billings
Brynja Davis, Andrews University Professor
CHORAL RESPONSE
“Sanctus” • George Oldroyd
OFFERTORY
“Dare to Be a Daniel” • Philip Bliss / Kenneth Logan
CHILDREN’S STORY & PRAYER
Ha Eun Park, Andrews University Student
SCRIPTURE READING
Acts 1:8 NIV
Merarie Doyle, Pioneer Member
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“O Be Joyful” • Philip Stopford
MESSAGE
“The Making of a Movement”
Taurus Montgomery, Associate Pastor
HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“Just As I Am” • words st. 1, 3, 5-6, 313, mel. 314
CLOSING MUSIC
“O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High” • David Johnson
OPENING MUSIC
“Wake Up! A Voice Is Calling” • Wayne Wold
“I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light” • Wayne Wold
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Prescott Khair, Associate Pastor
CHORAL INTROIT
“Sanctus” • George Oldroyd
HYMN OF PRAISE
“Take My Life, and Let It Be” • 330
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
“Our Father Who In Heaven Art” • William Billings
Brynja Davis, Andrews University Professor
CHORAL RESPONSE
“Sanctus” • George Oldroyd
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“O Be Joyful” • Philip Stopford
OFFERTORY
“Fugue on ‘O Word of God’ / ‘He Leadeth Me’” • Kenneth Logan
CHILDREN’S STORY & PRAYER
Ha Eun Park, Andrews University Student
PRAISE
“In Christ Alone”
SCRIPTURE READING
Acts 1:8 NIV
PRAISE
“Oh How I Love Jesus”
“Goodness of God”
MESSAGE
“The Making of a Movement”
Taurus Montgomery, Associate Pastor
SONG OF COMMITMENT
“Just As I Am” • words st. 1, 3, 5-6, 313, mel. 314
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.