There will be a fellowship dinner following the second worship service in the commons.
Outlook 2024: A View From the Top of a Mountain
Resources
Speaker
Jenifer DaleyPastor Jenifer Daley grew up on the tropical island of Jamaica and graduated from the University of the West Indies in preparation for a career in finance and business. Eventually going into banking, she moved to the United Kingdom where she achieved her Chartered Certified Accountant designation, the British equivalent of a CPA. Furthering her career she subsequently pursued a Ph.D. in Economics and Banking (University of Wales, Cardiff).
Offering
Saturday, December 30, 2023
OPENING MUSIC
“O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” • Hans Hassler / Kenneth Logan
WELCOME, CALL TO WORSHIP, & PRAYER
John Glass, Associate Pastor
HYMN OF PRAISE
“Lift High the Cross” • 362, st. 1-2, 4-5
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
John Glass, Associate Pastor
OFFERTORY
“O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” • Hans Hassler
MESSAGE
“Outlook 2024: A View From the Top of a Mountain”
Jenifer Daley, Associate Pastor
SERMON REFLECTION
’The Prayer’ • David Foster
THE LORD’S SUPPER
FOOTWASHING
LORD’S SUPPER INTRODUCTION
SCRIPTURE
Lynell De Wind, Pioneer Elder
PRAYER
Anthony Yeboah, Pioneer Elder
MUSICAL MEDITATION
“My Jesus, I Love Thee” • Adoniram Gordon / Kenneth Logan
PARTAKING OF ELEMENTS AND OFFERING APPEAL
HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“Sent Forth by God’s Blessing” • 407
CLOSING MUSIC
“O Lamb of God, Unspotted” • Johann Sebastian Bach
Fellowship Dinner
Pioneer 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