Greetings Meadow Glade SDA Church family and friends! (4.25.24 Edition)

This past weekend was a wonderful weekend for socializing at the Meadow Glade Church! We are grateful for the Moor family who were the catalysts for great connection moments on Saturday night (vespers) and Sunday afternoon (wedding reception)!

Pastor Jim Bollin has written the following special thanks: "It has been said that every picture tells a story. But maybe the message is dependent on how the picture is presented. Last Sabbath, the vespers presentation by Trisha Thorman and her father, Jim Moor, was truly a special blessing. As they shared stories of their Kilimanjaro climb it was easy to see God's hand at work in the beauty of nature, in His provision, and in His grace. Thank you Trisha and Jim, for letting Jesus work in and through you to your new friends in Africa and to us."

Check out our latest Pastor's Devotional on our church app, bulletin board or website.

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

* Tonight is Church Finance Committee and Church Board meet at 5:30 pm and 7 pm respectively.

* This Friday "Crucial Conversations the Jesus Way" Youth Event will be in Center Point banquet room at 7 pm. All high school age youth are invited! This interactive event for honest conversation is moderated by Oregon Conference leaders Jason Calvert, Jana Lee and Benjamin Lundquist. You don't want to miss it! This event is part of the Southwest Washington Youth Night of Worship schedule.

* Sabbath Begins - 8:12 pm on Friday.

* This Sabbath is Youth Ignite! High school students will lead out in every aspect of the worship service! Kailey Haberthur will be our speaker! The worship service which starts at 10:45 am in the main sanctuary. Watch our livestream worship service online by following links on our church website (meadowglade.com). You can also find our livestream and past worship services on our Facebook page and our church app.

* Church offering this Sabbath: Oregon Conference Youth Support. If you'd like to give online, go to our church app or website.

* This Sabbath afternoon in the Fellowship Hall, following the worship service, there will be a farewell potluck lunch to honor Pastor Rosemary Andrykanus. Sabbath is her final day with us!

* Sunset Sabbath evening is 8:13 pm.

* This Sunday is Children's Ministry Service Day - Parents and children are invited to join us from 10:00 to 11:30 am at our local ACS to help them with food prep and organization.

* There is a Parent Play Group every Monday at 10 am downstairs in the "Beginners" Sabbath School room. This is a great time for your preschool children to interact with other kids and for you to interact with other parents. Call the church office for more information.

* Women to Women Bible Study is every Monday at 6:30 pm in the downstairs W2W room. All women are welcome to come! Our next study begins on May 6 and is REMBRANDT Is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey. This study focuses on learning to love art through the eyes of faith. Call/text Shelly Williams at 360-513-5188 for more information and to reserve a book.

* Take "A Deep Dive into Philippians" with Pastor Evan every Monday from 7 to 8 pm in the church board room. This connect group for Bible study started on April 1 and falls on these upcoming dates: April 22, 29, May 6 and 20.

* Our Battle Ground Adventist Community Services (ACS) Food Bank & Clothing Store is open every Tuesday and Thursday and operates on the bottom floor of our Center Point Building (11117 NE 189th Street). They are open every Tuesday from 1:00 to 5:30 pm and every Thursday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Donations are accepted on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, and the first Sunday of each month from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Find them also on our church website or their website. GiveBig is coming up on May 7-8! Please remember ACS in your giving this year!

* Prayer meeting is every Wednesday from 1 to 2 pm and meets in the Women to Women Sabbath School room downstairs in the church. Everyone is welcome to attend!

WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE HORIZON

* May 4, Pastor Jim is our speaker.

* May 8, Together in Mission Town Hall Meeting with the Oregon Conference officers at the Meadow Glade SDA Church at 7 pm.

* May 11, Pastor Michael is our speaker.

* May 11, John Ryan is holding ALICE Training for anyone in our church congregation immediately after the worship service. ALICE Training is one of the few premier training programs for Violent Critical Incidents (such as active shooter situations). We want all of our members to be trained with ALICE in the coming months in coordination with our Church Safety Committee. No RSVP is needed! Simply meet in the Board Room after the worship service to receive the training which will take approximately 45 minutes. Parents, please make the decision how old your children should be for this difficult subject matter. There are 2 other training dates upcoming if you cannot make this date. If you'd like to read more about ALICE training you can visit their website here: https://www.alicetraining.com/

* May 11, The Children's Ministries Leadership Team is hosting a "Thank You Lunch" in the Fellowship Hall after the worship service for all Children's Ministries volunteers. A meal will be provided so just bring yourself and your family as we celebrate how you have ministered to our kids at MGC this past year.

* May 11, Country Gospel Praise in Center Point Banquet Room at 5 pm.

* May 18, Pastor Ben is our speaker.

* May 18, John Ryan is holding ALICE Training for anyone in our church congregation immediately after the worship service. ALICE Training is one of the few premier training programs for Violent Critical Incidents (such as active shooter situations). We want all of our members to be trained with ALICE in the coming months in coordination with our Church Safety Committee. No RSVP is needed! Simply meet in the Fellowship Hall after the worship service to receive the training which will take approximately 45 minutes. Parents, please make the decision how old your children should be for this difficult subject matter. There is 1 other training date upcoming if you cannot make this date. If you'd like to read more about ALICE training you can visit their website here: https://www.alicetraining.com/

* May 25, Pastor Evan is our speaker.

* June 1, Youth Ignite!

* June 8, CAA Graduation Sabbath.

* June 12, MGAES 8th grade Graduation.

* June 15, Pastor Jim is our speaker.

* June 15, John Ryan is holding ALICE Training for anyone in our church congregation immediately after the worship service. ALICE Training is one of the few premier training programs for Violent Critical Incidents (such as active shooter situations). We want all of our members to be trained with ALICE in the coming months in coordination with our Church Safety Committee. No RSVP is needed! Simply meet in the Fellowship Hall after the worship service to receive the training which will take approximately 45 minutes. Parents, please make the decision how old your children should be for this difficult subject matter. There are no other training dates upcoming this year. If you'd like to read more about ALICE training you can visit their website here: https://www.alicetraining.com/

* June 22, Pastor Michael is our speaker. Communion service.

* June 24-28 is Vacation Bible School! Registration is officially open. You can register here.

* June 29, VBS Sabbath!

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH SABBATH SCHOOL

* Sabbath School Classes (9:30 to 10:30 am Sabbath mornings):

Beginners (Ages 0-2): Leader: Janelle Jackson. Location: Lower Level Room #125.

Preschool (Ages 3-4): Leader: Janelle Jackson. Location: Lower Level Room # 129.

Kindergarten (Ages 5 to Kindergarten): Leader: Jenee Hilliard. Lower Level Room # 132.

Primary I (Grades 1 to 2): Leader: Ben Leake. Location: Lower Level Room # 124.

Primary II (Grades 3 to 4): Leader: Laura Liu. Location: Lower Level Room # 108.

Juniors (Grades 5 to 6): Leader: Laura Liu. Location: Lower Level Room # 113.

Earliteen (Grades 7 to 8): Leader: Laura Liu. Location: Lower Level Room # 111.

High School (Grade 9 to 12): Leader: Pastor Rose Andrykanus. Location: Center Point banquet room.

Koinonia (Adult): Leaders: Steve Gibb, Wayne Holm, Jason Krenzler. Study: Sabbath School Quarterly. Location: Lower Level Room # 119.

New Believers: Leader: Pastor Michael Brackett. Location: Lead Pastor's Office Room # 242.

Quest: Leaders: Scott Davis, Brian Ford, Pattie Gilliland, Debee Givens. Study: Sabbath School Quarterly. Location: Center Point Room # 306.

RENU: Leaders: Mari Cheney, Nina Vallado, Shelly Williams. Study: Current and relevant topics. Location: CAA Chapel.

Study in the Sanctuary: Leaders: Randy Hesgard, Ric Peinado, Bill Pritchard. Study: Sabbath School Quarterly. Location: Church sanctuary.

The GAP: Leaders: Jeff Fry, Gene Heinrich. Study: Sabbath School Quarterly. Location: Lower Level Room # 120.

The Wanderers: Location: Study: Life of Christ. Location: Lower Level Room # 139.

This is Us: Leaders: Warren Blanck, Nate Nelson, Mechelle Peinado. Study: Gospel of Luke. Location: Church board room.

W2W: Women's Ministries: Leader: Shelly Opdycke. Location: Lower Level Room # 107.

No Longer Strangers: Leaders: Randy Givens, Joshua Waters, Kevin Watters. Study: Mere Christianity. Location: Center Point # 300. Meets at 10 am.

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY

* Our Family Promise ministry team is looking for another food coordinator to work with Shelly Williams. If you would like to get involved or know someone that might, please call Shelly Williams or Angel McCoy. Our next host week is July 7-14. Click here to volunteer that week!

* Ministry positions to prayerfully consider: Kitchen Manager, Deacons, Greeters, Assistant Treasurer, and Treasury Counter(s). Please contact Pastor Jim Bollin for more information.

* We are hoping to raise $2,500 more for the Tonga Church Building Fund. If you have questions about this project, please contact Amelia Palaki at 503-726-9781.

* Please prayerfully consider giving toward our "Church Roof Project" fund (you can find a line item for it through online giving or you can mark a tithe envelope accordingly). We have a fundraising goal of $350,000 to help replenish the fund used to pay for the roof (also known as "Reserves") as well as finish paying off the loan for the recent Center Point building roof repairs. Please also consider setting up a recurring donation through online giving.

* We have a goal of raising approximately $10,000 for new church video cameras. Please consider giving to help improve our Audio/Video (AV) ministry.

* Church Flowers - Use the sign up sheet in the church office to honor a special occasion (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) with flowers for the church podium on Sabbath or send an email to [email protected].

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR CHURCH FAMILY

* Vicki Waggoner went to her rest in Jesus this past Friday night. Please pray for peace and comfort for her family - Krista Patchin and Shanna Wilson. Details are forthcoming for a Celebration of Life service.

* John Hubach and his mom, Peggy Hubach, have concerning health issues. Please pray for strength and understanding at this time.

* We have hired a new church Receptionist! We are excited to have Heidi An join our team on May 13! Please welcome her and pray as she transitions into this position! Bio: Heidi was born and raised in Redmond, Washington, a Seattle suburb. She is the youngest of three girls by 10 and 7 years! After high school she attended community college to fulfill prerequisites for dental hygiene. She then went onto Loma Linda University and received her Bachelor’s degree in Dental Hygiene and also happened to meet her now husband, Ben, a dental graduate. They married in August of 2008 and soon after moved to Bellingham, WA. Their son, Beckham, was born in 2012 and the following year they decided to sell everything and go to Guyana, South America for a 8 month long mission trip to build a new dental building. Upon returning, they decided to settle down in Beaverton, OR and had their second child, Penelope (Penny), in 2014. In 2019 a job change for Ben meant crossing the river and moving up to Vancouver, WA and into the Meadow Glade community where they have happily settled for the long haul! Heidi enjoys crafting, cooking, taking care of their bunny, and trying new restaurants. The past 12 years as a stay at home mom have been spent carefully raising her kids and helping them to gain many experiences while following God’s direction. She is now looking forward to the new journeys ahead! (See attached pics of Heidi and her family.)

* Prayers are appreciated for our church's Strategic Planning Committee. They began their work weeks ago (they have met four Sundays) and are prayerfully preparing a current vision statement for our church. Their next meeting is Sunday, May 19 at 9 am in the church board meeting room.

* Graduate List 2024 - Our Meadow Glade Church family graduates will be posted on the bulletin board in May. If someone special to you is graduating this year, submit your graduate's name, school, grade/degree, graduation date, your name, and your relationship to graduate. (We have both MGAES and CAA lists.) Submit to [email protected]. Thank you!

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR NEIGHBORS

* Columbia Adventist Academy’s 2024 Constituency Session is scheduled for this Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:00pm. The meeting will take place in the CAA Chapel located at 11100 NE 189th St., Battle Ground, WA 98604. If you have questions or need additional information, please email [email protected].

* 4-19-24 Oregon Conference message regarding camp meeting: "As the Oregon Conference Administration and Executive Committee work diligently under God’s leadership to restore our Conference to sound financial footing, a number of difficult decisions continue to be considered. A guiding principle is that no significantly costly expenses – no matter how long standing and beloved – can be completely off limits as the leadership team conducts cost-benefit analyses. In that vein, on April 18, the Executive Committee, with prayerful consideration, made the extremely difficult decision to suspend Spanish and English camp meetings for 2024, with plans to fully reinstate this Spirit-filled event for 2025. As you likely know, camp meeting is one of the most expensive line items in the Oregon Conference budget every year and to produce it this year would have required the Conference to borrow approximately $380,000. As important as camp meeting is to all of us, we simply couldn’t justify taking on that much debt as we work to bring our budget back into balance. Our hearts ache with yours at missing out on the spiritual and social fellowship of camp meeting this year, but we strongly believe that God is calling us to take this step in 2024. With all of that said, Elder Linrud reached out to pastors yesterday to initiate possible discussion of implementing conversions around geographic area gatherings (regional convocations) around the Conference this year. More prayer and conversation will need to take place in this regard. Please stay tuned for possible additional news on this front. Thank you for your ongoing prayers for the continued progress in our push to achieve a balanced budget in the coming months. If you have any questions about why the difficult decision was made to not hold camp meeting this year, please reach out to [email protected]."

* 4-22-24 letter from CAA Principal Gene Heinrich: "Dear CAA Family, In 2004 a group of visionary students inspired the Columbia Adventist Academy community to invest in the mission of their school through the purchase of a 'new to us' coach bus. Over the last twenty years 'The Coach' has transported CAA’s missionaries up and down the west coast from Canada to Mexico. On music tours, athletic events, biology trips, SA events, mission trips, U-Days, Fall Classic, Friendship Tournament, and on many, many other outings 'The Coach' has taken the message givers from place to place safely and it has promoted CAA and the Savior we serve, mile after mile as it traveled from place to place. After 20 years of service, you might be asking, is 'The Coach' is ready to retire? And the answer to that question is, 'no.' Not retire, but perhaps its time for 'The Coach' to take those years of experience and transition into more of a consulting role. Every wise woman or man knows when the time has come to hand the reins to the next generation, slow down a little, and enjoy the fruits of their labor. It is best to make this kind of transition when things are working as they should, not when they have begun to fall apart. The golden years should be enjoyable, and for that to happen, you cannot keep driving until the wheels fall off. You must slow down while all the cylinders are still firing. OK, we should end the idioms and cut to the chase (well, maybe a few more idioms). We have been searching for a few years for the right vehicle to take over when 'The Coach' was ready to slow down, and recently we found a deal that seemed so good we could not let it slip through our hands. Today a new coach joined the team at CAA. While we would have loved to have found an even younger coach to join the team, after examining this coach’s resume the school board agreed that having a coach with some experience was to our advantage on multiple fronts. It will remain to be seen if this coach can have as long of a tenure as the one purchased in 2004 but considering that the price we paid in 2024 was half of what we invested in 2004, everyone agreed this was the coach to advance the legacy. Now our challenge. The opportunity to purchase the new coach did not afford us the time that the Class of 2004 had to fundraise. So, we stepped out in faith and used funds from our reserves (rainy-day fund) to make this purchase. To ensure the ongoing financial strength of Columbia Adventist Academy we need to replenish our reserves. If you have been blessed by the ministry of 'The Coach,' or you are looking forward to the blessings that will come with the new coach, or if you just love Jesus and want to provide His CAA missionaries the funds to keep advancing His mission, please prayerfully consider donating to the Coach Bus Fund. You can mail a check to the school office at 11100 NE 189th St., Battle Ground, WA 98604 or click here to donate online. Thanks again to the Class of 2004 for your inspiration and to Jesus and all His faithful followers who make ministry happen through CAA."

* This year's Propel Conference for Evangelism is right here in Vancouver, WA April 28 to May 1. This fantastic evangelism seminar features many prominent speakers surely to motivate anyone for effective evangelism. The Conference has reached out to us this week to make this important announcement: All church members can access the evening meetings free of charge.

* “Giving Your Best”: We are excited to announce that Meadow Glade Adventist Elementary School will be hosting a spring giving event starting April 22!! We are working with a few of our local community assistant programs in organizing a clothes and can drive to help with giving to others that are in need. The plan is that each family has the opportunity to bring in their “best”, and “hardly used” clothes to give to those in need. No socks, underclothes, or nighttime wear should be given. We will also be limiting each family to only one 25-30 pound plastic bag of clothes, so that we can be really conscious of giving our absolute best! For the “Can Drive” we will accept as many cans as your family would like to donate. The local food banks are always in need of canned foods to give out to families not able to afford enough food for their families. We will be accepting clothes and cans April 22-May 3, and these can be dropped off in front of the gym doors during school hours M-F, 8:15-3:15. These small sacrifices that we make as families, and a school, will truly change people’s lives. Thank you so much for your participation in being Jesus’s hands to our community! If you are finding your family in need, please make sure to check out our local Adventist Community Services (located right next to MGAES) and God’s Closet (located in Vancouver, WA). - Josh Maclachlan.

* PDX Children's Church is May 4 from 11 am to 12:30 pm at the Holden Convention Center. Please register on the church app or website. Their is also a QR code on the flyer on the bulletin board and bulletin.

* CAA Talent Show - May 4 at 8:30 pm in the school gymnasium. Come for a night of fun and laughter as the music department puts on a fun-filled night!

* Everyone's invited to the Tour de Columbia 5k Fun Run! When? May 5 at 9:30 am. Where? Columbia Adventist Academy Campus. Check out the flyer on the church app and bulletin board for registration information. All donations and proceeds go toward the CAA athletic department's annual expenses. If you're not interested in participating in the race, but would like to volunteer that morning, please email Shawn Twing at [email protected].

* Meadow Glade Adventist Elementary School Constituency Meeting - Notice is hereby given that an annual meeting of MGAES is called to convene on Monday, May 13 at 7 pm. This will be an in-person meeting in the MGAES gymnasium. The purpose of this meeting will be to hear an annual report from the officers of the board, approving an incoming budget for the 2024-2025 school year and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the session. Delegates from the churches comprise the school constituency; all are welcome to attend, but only delegates selected may vote.

* Battle Ground Healthcare is a ministry started by the Meadow Glade SDA Church and still supported by our members. Battle Ground Healthcare is dedicated to improving the health and well being of our community through providing access to quality, no-cost care services. Check out their website by clicking here to see how they might support your health journey and also discover ways to partner with them and volunteer to help this important ministry! GiveBig is coming up on May 7-8! It's a 2-day giving event to support Battle Ground HealthCare. Every gift matters and generous donors will match your donation - dollar for dollar!

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Meadow Glade Seventh-day Adventist Church

11001 NE 189th Street

Battle Ground, WA 98604

Church Office # 360-687-2265

www.meadowglade.com

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