SABBATH SCHOOL

Prayer, Healing
and Restoration
Memory Text: Therefore,
confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so
that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous
man can accomplish much. (James 5:16, NASB).
The Church at Study 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Announcements
Notifications
1. The new church plant is meeting at
the Mount Zion United Church,
located at 471 Ridgewood Cres,
off Berkshire, near Springbank &
Wonderland intersection. We
request your prayers as the new
group of pioneers organizes a centre of worship in
the West London area.

Superintendent: Pastor Alex Golovenko

WORSHIP HOUR
Hymn of Praise.. Tell Me the Story of Jesus......#152
Intercessory Prayer .................. Maria Bartosz
Texas Conference, Families in Crisis, the unemployed;
Families: Vasquez, Walker, Weidner, Wernham, Wilbee,
Williams & Worthington
Next Week:
Texico Conference, Heads of families, Passion for the unsaved,
Thanksgiving: Birthdays & Anniversaries

Offering..Church Budget.............Edwin Onyango

Choir Presentation
Journey to the
Kingdom
Hymn of Dedication..Once in Royal Davids City...#149
Benediction.......Elder Clara Baptiste
Sunset Today: 4:52 p.m. Next week: 4:56 p.m.
Please send all bulletin related information by WEDNESDAY
9:00 p.m. to larris.biggs@gmail.com

2. Membership Transfer: IN 2nd Reading: Esther BoahFrimpong from the Slough Ghana SDA Church, UK to
the London SDA Church
Transfers OUT: 1st Reading: Juan Daniel Echeverri,
Carlos Naranjo Echeverri & Clara Helena Ramirez Meza
from the London SDA Church to the Grande Prairie SDA
Church, Alberta.
3. Community Bible Studies resumes
today @ 5 pm, with Q & A session.
Next Sabbath, December 27,
Kirmane Allen will be presenting a
topic. We welcome your questions
and suggestion of topics for study.
For more details see the schedule in the foyer.
4. Inviting ALL to an hour of prayer, Bible
Study and testimonies on Wednesday
night at 7 pm. Come and be blessed!
5. Devotionals for all ages are available.
Please check at the foyer table display.
Price is $25 per book. Boxed sets are
$40, and Ellen G. White devotional is
$20.
6. Sponsors for Needy Families: We have received
many requests for assistance to families in need this
Christmas. If you are able to sponsor a family, please
contact Teresa Ferreira.

7. Pathfinders Club meetings will resume

after the holidays, January 4, 2015 at 10
am.
8. New Year vespers is planned for
7 pm, Wednesday, December
31. Recognizing that many of
you may be working that day, a
celebrative dinner is also
planned, so you could come from
work to the festive table at the church, starting at 5 pm.
Come to enter into the New Year with prayer as one
family of God.
9. January 3, 2015 Elden Ramirez,
the new director
of the Adventist
Volunteer
services
(replacing Jose
Rojas) at the
General
Conference will be in London. The
event is sponsored by the North
London SDA church. All Adventist churches in the
district, including St.Thomas, will come together for
worship service and afternoon seminars at the
Montcalm Secondary School, located at 1350 N
Highbury Ave, London. Potluck-style lunch is planned
at the school cafeteria. Please mark the date on your
calendar and invite a friend.

Events
10. The Ingersoll Arena is rented by Boskovic
family on Tuesday, December 30th 2013
from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30. All youth are
welcome to come skating. The cost for
skating will be $3 per person. There will be a potluck
lunch at Boskovics place afterwards, please bring a
dish to share.

Birthday Wishes for December

Dec 1 Gord Rayner
Dec 1 Hellen Orisi
Dec 1 Mario Carcamo Sr.
Dec 5 Jeanne Munro
Dec 6 Bosljka Stupar
Dec 8 Josh Catarino
Dec 8 Kibwe Williams
Dec 9 Lynn Tait
Dec 9 Sharon Reeve
Dec 11 Rwangi Hosea

Dec 14 Lisa Dawson

Dec 14 Loralee Dawson
Dec 16 Kristina Howick
Dec 21 Randy Heath
Dec 23 Jeremiah Wilson
Dec 24 Virgina Polihronova
Dec 25 Dragan Maletic
Dec 25 Maria Anzora
Dec 25 Lynette Williams
Dec 26 Leah Stajfer

Dec 26 Yeni Gultom

Dec 26 Margaret Yates
Dec 27 Holly Dowdell
Dec 28 Clifford Munro
Dec 29 Ray Thompson
Dec 29 Zola Ncube
Dec 31 Shawna
Thompson
Dec 31 Emily Reeve
Dec 31 Elizabeth Haskell

Happy Sabbath and Merry Christmas! As we celebrate

this holiday season and honour the Sabbath, may the
Lord bless you with hope and love this week and
throughout 2015.

Music
speaks what cannot be expressed
soothes the mind and gives it rest
heals the heart and makes it whole
flows from heaven to the soul.

Redeeming Christmas!

Over the past 10 years of my ministry here in London I addressed this

subject through my blogs (you can see archived messages @
http://apocalypticspirituality.blogspot.ca).
December 2005 I invited all to read the Adventist Home chapter 77,
entitled Christmas! This year I appealed to you to consider the Adventist
Home your family life manual as we addressed various subjects regarding
family matters. It would be good for you to read it again (especially page 482
where she writes God would be well pleased if on Christmas each church
would have a Christmas tree on which shall be hung offerings, great and
small, for these houses of worship.)
As new people join our fellowship new questions arise. Recently a
person said to me Ellen White wrote this when she was very young, in her
early writings, implying that with age and maturity she had changed her
opinion, thus demoting her statement to unimportant. My response was
Really?! and who appointed you a judge over inspiration? In fact this
statement was and published in the Review and Herald, December 11, 1879
in response to early Adventists questions Letters of inquiry have come to us
asking, Shall we have a Christmas tree? will it not be like the world? We
answer, You can make it like the world if you have a disposition to do so, or
you can make it as unlike the world as possible. There is no particular sin in
selecting a fragrant evergreen and placing it in our churches; but the sin lies
in the motive which prompts to action, and the use which is made of the gifts
placed upon the tree. Consider the date 1879, she was 52 years of age,
thats 21 years after her vision of the Great Controversy to which she
dedicated the rest of her life writing, thats 16 years after organizing the
Seventh-day Adventist church. This statement is no early writings!
A historical fact intrigued me this week. In 1800 Queen Charlotte had the
first Christmas tree in Britain. A German wife of George III, she brought the
idea from her home in Germany where it was already a tradition. December
24 on church calendars was a day of Adam and Eve. Drama depicting
biblical themes was a common tool to instruct people who were not able to
read. Churches often produced plays. Plays celebrating Nativity of Christ
were linked with the story of Creation, and an evergreen tree was the symbol
of the Tree of Life and of Christ.
What caught my attention, was the fact that the Christmas Tree tradition
was very recent in England, and in the new world, in America. It was just
two-generations old, but being widely used in celebration of Christ who gives
hope of everlasting life, our church pioneers did not ignore it, did not
paranoidly feared it as pagan, but approached it with redemptive
perspective use it for the good, use it as an object lesson to teach grace, to
bless others.
This Christmas season bring good into your neighborhood, bring
happiness into lives of your children and families, be a source of blessing,
joy, and use every opportunity to redeem the time for Jesus.
your servant, pastor Alex Golovenko

20.12.14