ThunderbirdSDA Church Weekly Events

3 Year Event began April 17, 2012 ends 2015
Worldwide challenge to read a chapter of the bible every day for 3 years.

 

Weekly Events

Tuesday MorningsJoin us at 7AM every Tuesday morning in Pastor Jay's office as we pray for our schools.

Wednesday eveningsSoup/Sandwich/Supper 6:00-7:00PM

Prayer Meeting 7:00-8:00PM
Pathfinders 6:30-7:30PM

Thursday Nights every other week

Good News TV Prayer Call 8-9PM

Call-in phone number:  605-475-6700 Passcode number: 403-7032

 

August Events

Aug 22 - Wednesday Night

6:30PM Pathfinder Registration

7:00PM Prayer Meeting

7:30PM Social Committee Meeting

Aug 25 - Saturday Night

TAA Welcome Back Party

Aug 29 - Wednesday Night

6:30-8:00PM 1st Pathfinder meeting in the Pathfinders Room near the Fellowship Hall
7:00-8:00PM Prayer Meeting in the Fellowship Hall
Aug 30 - Thursday Night 8PM

Call-in phone number:  605-475-6700 Passcode number: 403-7032

Messages from our Members -

Special message from Liz Stelfox. Her son was on the cover of the Recorder Magazine. If you have a copy of this issue or the newest issue please give it to her or bring it to church for her.
Please pray for Ray and Joann Andrus. Ray is being treated for Acute Leukemia by the VA Hospital and the Mayo Clinic. Hold up both of them in prayer.  
Pray for Mercedes and Fred Karr as they list their 5 acre property in Pinedale for sale. Pray the Lord blesses this transaction and provides them with a miracle.

Pray for continued employment and housing for all our members.

Praise ReportThe enrollment numbers for our school are up this year.

Investment ProjectsCradle Roll/Kindergarten Sabbath School- Save your labels. Bring the UPC/Bar Code labels from canned and boxed foods from Worthington, Loma Linda , Morningstar Farms and Natural Touch to Cradle Roll/Kindergarten each Sabbath. Each label is redeemable for a nickel toward Mission Investment.  Don't forget your labels.

 

Copies of Sabbath Services CD copies are available from the PA booth. A $5 donation is suggested.

Thunderbird Christian Elementary School has a new on site principal, Penny Escalante. Penny and her husband Ruben will work together to provide leadership for our PreK - 8th grades. Penny will be working full time as principal. We are happy to have her on staff and ask everyone to pray for the success of the school. As Ruben says "Pray Hard!"

 

TCE School - Help our school receive up to $10,000 in Target Gift Cards for supplies. Each week vote for our school thru September 8. For every 25 votes, Target will send us a $25 gift card. See the newsletter attached. Go online to Facebook. Visit the Give With Target® app at Facebook.com/Target. And vote!

TAA Principal Maloon and his staff have come up with some wonderful ways to bond the church and the school. Find out what you can do. See the attachment.

Good News TV is now broadcasting on Channel 22. You will need an antennae to receive the signal. (Rabbit ears antennas work.)
Good News TV has been given a matching funds offer. $3,800 church one-time offer. $16,000 individual one-time offer and an individual $840 monthly donation offer. Prayerfully consider making a donation.

Do you have some time to deliver a Bible and Great Controversy to viewers who watch the programs call in and request these books? Contact Susan Skelton and let her know you can drop these off at the homes of viewers. 480-888-6983  

Sponsor a 1/2 hour program on GNTV once a week for a month. The show costs $8. The monthly cost is $32. 
Enclose your donation in the tithe envelope and mark it GNTV Monthly Program.

Good News TV Prayer Group - meets on the phone every other Thursday night. From the comfort of your home or where ever you might be, call in to the phone conference line and join others to pray for Good News TV and Mas TV and for the requests of those who call into the TV stations for prayer requests. 8-9PM every other Thursday night. Pray the full hour or just for a few minutes.

Call-in phone number:  605-475-6700 Pass code number: 403-7032

 

Prayer List: Continue to pray for our students, teachers, and staff at TCE and TAA and for our new principals. Our teachers and students are in the second week of the new school year.

Pray also for Betty and Bill Alvarez, the Prinke family, the Lysinger family, the Thacker family, the Blake family, Candace's daughter.

SDA Community Service Center The Lord has greatly blessed our Community Service Center with a beautiful transformation. Come visit, take a tour. It turned out so beautiful. 

Spend some time volunteering. We can use your help. Pastor John Schachinger has been assigned as the Pastor for the Community Center. He has been working on plans to bring the neighborhood into the Center and minister to them. We are blessed to have him working with Denise and the staff.

1320 N 15th St (just south of McDowell Rd ). Open to volunteers 9AM-12PM Mondays-Fridays. Open for the public 9AM - 12 PM Tuesdays-Thursdays and worship on Sabbath.
Wonder where our TAA students are every Sabbath afternoon? Pastor Robbie takes them to the Center to witness to the children and their families. 

Do you know anyone who has a wholesale connection for clothing, men's clothing - new underwear and socks, shoes, shirts, pants, or belts. We also need gently used men's clothes.
It's back to school time. While you are out shopping pick up extra school supplies and new socks, shoes, and underwear to donate to the children being served by the Center. Bring your items to church or to the Center.

Call the Center 602-258-9951 or Jerry at 623-606-7935.

 

Serving Angels Ministry is here to help our church family members when the need arises. Let us know if there is a family in need of an offering of meals, a morning of yard work or house cleaning, etc and especially of prayers. Join us in this ministry. We all need help at some time.

 

Tithes and Offerings You can also make your tithes (10%) and your offerings (around 5%) to Scottsdale Thunderbird Church on-line at www.Scottsdalesdachurch.com or https://www.adventistgiving.org/?OrgID=ANP4HL.
Don't forget to mark you offerings to the ministries of your choice such as our local Church, the Community Service Center , Good News TV, and the Beehive Ministry. Donations are welcome.

Our Church Website Have you seen it yet. We received over 200 hits the first Sabbath it was up. www.Scottsdalesdachurch.com Have you been there yet? Thanks to David Northrop there is a lot of wonderful information on it.  David has been working hard to pull the website together. But now we need you. Give us your feedback, your recipes, photos, stories, prayer requests, etc. David presented the website at church last week. You can go online on your computers or tablets or smart phones to see it. Where ever you are you can be connected to our home church.

 

Pastor Visits If you would like a visit, prayer, Bible study, or to prepare for baptism, please call or email Pastor Jay Warren at 480-993-771, surketrider@yahoo.com or complete the blue card in the back of the pews.

 

Bulletin Announcements to Linda Melara by Wednesday evenings.  Please call 602-578-5108 or email  to  linda-melaradesign@cox.net.

Memory Text: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16).

Key Thought: Paul gives the Thessalonians (and us) a powerful hope for the future, the promise of the second coming of Christ. 

 Lesson 8 *August 18-24

The Dead inChrist 
(1 Thess. 4:13-18)

Sabbath Afternoon

Read for This Week’s Study: 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Acts 17:3; 1 Cor. 15:20-23, 51-58; John 5:28, 29; Rev. 20:4-6.

In the passage for this week (1 Thess. 4:13-18)Paul is reacting to a theological misunderstanding among the Thessalonians. Though we are not entirely clear as to what the error was, some members were definitely in distress regarding the fate of believers who died before Jesus’ return. The issue seems to have been about the difference between those who died before that return and those who would be alive when it happens.

This week we will explore what we know about the situation that led Paul to write 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. In this passage Paul not only corrects first-century misunderstandings, but he provides solid ground on which twenty-first century Christians can stand. “ ‘For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets’ “ (Amos 3:7, ESV). And through the prophetic ministry of the apostle Paul, the Lord has revealed to us wonderful truths regarding the nature of the Second Coming. As we study these verses, prayerfully dwell on the incredible hope that’s contained in them for us.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, August 25.