March 2018 - The Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal …...istence will be glorious and far exceed...
Transcript of March 2018 - The Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal …...istence will be glorious and far exceed...
March 2018 This is the day that the Lord has made; let
us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
Local & Worldwide Outreach
The Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal
Church
FAMILY
• Bible Quizzing (3-19)
• Sunday School (3-11)
• Today’s Christian Girl (7-16)
• Refuge (12-21)
• Men’s
• Ladies
• Joy (Just Over Youth 55+)
• Young Marrieds
CHURCH
• Hospitality
• Drama
• Youth/Adult Choir
COMMUNITY
• Home Bible Studies
• Outreach
• Van Ministry
Ministries for You Connect ● Thrive ● Reach Out
The Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal Church
Please see a greeter/hostess to learn more or to get involved in any of these ministries
The Sanctuary Vision
The Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal Church family and I are driven to see the fullness of God’s potential reached and preached in all aspects of our lives.
Pentecost is not just life’s greatest experience, but a way of living and a relationship with the One True God.
-Pastor Todd Bertram
Schedule Sunday:
9:00 am Pre-service prayer
9:30 am Sunday School (all ages)
10:30 am Worship service &
Children’s Church (ages 5-11)
5:30 pm Pre-service prayer
6:00 pm Praise Explosion
Monday:
7:00 pm Prayer
Wednesday:
6:30 pm Pre-service
7:00 pm Bible Study
Friday:
7:00 pm “Student Night” (Youth
ages 12-21)
Saturday:
Men’s Prayer 8:00 am
Outreach prayer/visitation 9:30 am
Spanish Service—6:00 pm (Second
Saturday of each month)
March Birthdays
Upcoming Events
& Calendar
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1 Jaida Pearson 5 Hunter Smith 7 Darrell Baker 10 Barbara Price 11 Tommy Hood Jesslyn Lee 13 Kolbey Johnson
15 Dynasty Moultry 16 Zachary Bailey 17 Jan Forister 20 Kate Richardson 26 Michelle Lee 30 Kyvontez Leek
(Current month’s calendar inside)
April 7—Pastor’s Birthday Celebration
April 14—DYI Ladies
April 20-21—AL District Conference
April 29—Youth Lead Service PM
May 5—Mother’s Day Dinner
May 13—Mother’s Day
May 20—Graduation Service
May 28—Memorial Day Picnic
June 5-8—AYD Youth Camp
June 16—Father’s Day Luncheon
June 17—Father’s Day
June 19-22—Crusader’s Camp
GHANA
New well in South Sudan by
Wells of Life
GUATEMALA: Our Children’s Home just celebrat-
ed our very first anniversary. Over this past year we
have been able to care for a total of fifteen children
from the ages of three to ten. We were also thrilled to
see three of our children returned to family members
through our Family Reunification Program. Seven of our
children just completed the school year and we are so
proud of their accomplishments. Most had never been
to school before and several actually learned to read.
How exciting is that?
We survived an outbreak of chicken pox, the mumps,
lots of lice, parasites and one broken bone. Not to men-
tion the twenty eight trips to the dentist to repair and
clean their teeth. We are thrilled with the changes we
have seen in our children. They attend Sunday School
in one of our local churches and we hold children’s ser-
vices twice a month as well as learning their
weekly memory verses. They are learning so
much about the love of the Lord. It is so sweet
to hear them singing worship songs and skip-
ping about the property.
—Lynne Jewett
ESTONIA: We have started a new preaching point in Tartu,
Estonia’s second-largest city! We’ve been making the two and a
half hour trip every other week for service, and several first-time
guests have been praying to receive the Holy Ghost. Please
pray for a breakthrough in Tartu. AIMer
Kyuwon Kim was a blessing this summer,
winning several to the Lord. Three were bap-
tized, and two received the Holy Ghost. Also,
we baptized a Spirit-filled lady who has been
attending our services for the past three years!
—Nathan and Ingunn Turner
ARGENTINA: Bible school
graduation was an event greatly
blessed of the Lord. This year we
saw a total of forty seven Bible
school graduates receive their di-
plomas and enter into the harvest
field. It was a year of history in the
making as the first graduating
class of the satellite campus in
Bahía Blanca had their first gradu-
ation with ten students graduating.
There were a total of thirty-seven
graduates from the Buenos Aires
campus, many of them already
actively involved in the work of the
Lord.
Our speaker this year was Broth-
er Damion Larrañaga, District
Superintendent and a former IBA
alumnus. He challenged the grad-
uates to win souls, start churches
and believe the Lord for greater
things than ever before. Projected
enrollment for the next year looks
great! There is a tremendous
sense of expectation in the air that
the greatest days for the church
are here. The Instituto Biblico
Apostolico will continue to train
and equip students to answer the
challenge of our day.
—Michael and
Miriam Sponsler
Baptismal Service in
Khartoum area of Sudan
Bro Nick Guinn (USA) & Bro
Chris Simpson (CANADA) minis-
tered powerfully to our young
people
New
well
and man. As Elihu was “in God’s stead” (Job 32”6) and “also formed out of clay”
and exhorted Job to be not “afraid” (verse7), even so Christ “in God’s stead,” was
made like unto sinful “flesh” in order that man be not “terrified” at his presence.
His words, “neither shall my hand be heavy upon you,” conceals the words of
Jesus; “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” As Elihu was the end of the ar-
guments of Job’s three friends, even so was Christ the end of the accusation,
condemnation, and reproof of the Conscience, Law and Prophets. At the transfig-
uration Peter, Moses, and Elias were silenced, and they saw “no man” but Jesus
only.
The departure of Elihu is as mysterious as his appearance. In the closing of his
remarks he exhorts Job to “stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.”
Jesus showed man (sinful man) the “wondrous works of God,” and as Elihu’s
presence was swallowed up by the presence of God coming and speaking out of
the “whirlwind,” so it was on the day of Pentecost, that the testimony of Christ
was confirmed by the “rushing mighty wind” (Acts 2:1-4; Mat. 10:20), God speak-
ing in the Holy Ghost. (See Job, 32nd Chapter to 37th , Elihu’s testimony. Chap-
ter 38 to 41, God’s testimony.)
When man was deprived of the happiness of Eden, he lost all that he had. Like
Job, it seemed he could say, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away,
blessed be the name of the Lord.” He was stripped of everything but yet he of-
fered homage unto God. In the “latter end” of his life, God blessed Job more than
he did at the beginning. So shall it be with man, the latter days of our human ex-
istence will be glorious and far exceed anything that mortal eye has ever beheld.
For it is written, eye hath not seen nor ear heard what God has prepared for
them that love Him. (1 Cor. 2:9, 10).
It was through faith and patience that Job passed through the terrible ordeal and
obtained the multiplied blessing in the end. His undaunted courage and confi-
dence sustained him. He endured as seeing Him who is invisible. The hope of a
resurrection gave him strength to press his claim. Though in the beginning he
reasons, “If a man dies shall he live again?” And, again, “As a cloud is consumed
and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more,”
yet toward the last he caught a distant vision of his Lord and cried, “I know that
my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And
though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God.”
Thus, we who are called unto suffering, that we might obtain a better resurrec-
tion, must not be “slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.” Though our conscience has accused us, the law has con-
demned us, and the prophets have reproved us, thank God, that there is a
“daysman” between us; one that has laid his hand on both God and man, the
man Christ Jesus, our Lord.
-G.T.H.
Allegory In The Book of Job
Written By: Bishop G.T. Haywood
Published By: The Christian Outlook (1923)
That there was once a man whose name was Job there can be no doubt, from the
fact that God classes him with Noah and Daniel (Ezek. 14:14), while James refers
to his patience in connection with the “prophets” and “the Lord” (Jas. 5:10, 11).
But in the record of his life is concealed a most wonderful allegory of the fall and
rise of the human family.
Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac were real persons, yet in reading Ga-
latians 4:22-31 we find that the apostle Paul in speaking of the casting out of Ha-
gar and Ishmael says that those things “are an allegory.” (Verse 24). An allegory
is “the description of one thing under the image of another.”
Job, in his prosperity, was like man “hedged” about in Eden. Satan, the accuser of
the brethren, intended to make man curse God, by depriving him of his blessings
in Eden. But though man was put out of the garden, yet he endeavored to worship
God through sacrifices and offerings. (Gen. 4:1, etc).
To offset the spirit of worship Satan caused the world to be filled with sin and vio-
lence. There was none good, no, not one. The human family was full of “wounds,
and bruises, and putrifying sores”; “the whole head was sick and the whole heart
was faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there was no soundness in
it.” Isa. 1:5,6.
The three friends of Job are the conscience, the Law and the Prophets. As these
three men’s council was unprofitable so far as helping Job out of his condition,
even so the conscience, law and prophets were unable to deliver man from his
miserable, loathsome state.
The cry of Job, in his misery, for a “days-man” (mediator) who could “lay his hand
upon both” himself and God (Job 9:33), and his yearning cry, “Oh that I knew
where I might find Him” most wonderfully portrays the craving of the human heart
for the Savior, who could lay his hand upon man and God. The conscience ac-
cused him, (Romans 2:14, 15); the Law condemned him (2 Corinthians 3:9), and
the Prophets reproved him (Isaiah 29:21; 59:1-15), but none of these three could
show man the way out of his miserable, wretched condition.
The sudden appearance of Elihu upon the scene and his silencing of the argu-
ments of Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar is like Christ coming “suddenly” to this earth
(Mal. 3:1; Lu. 2:1-14; Mat. 3:13-17) as a “days-man” or Mediator between God
Ever wondered what our annual Save Our Children offering goes
toward?
1. North American SOC Rallies
2. Global Children’s SOC Rallies
3. Overseas Orphanages
4. UPCI Children’s Disaster Relief
5. Junior Bible Quizzing Extravaganzas and the Junior Bible Quizzing National Finals
6. Teachers Certification
7. Investing in Futures — Silvis, Illinois
8. BREAD (Bible Reading Enriches Any Day)
9. Seven Super Sundays
10. Teacher Training
11. North American Youth Congress (NAYC)
12. UPCI Divisional Programs
13. Children’s Ministries General Conference Service
14. Family Ministry Council
Psalm 127:3-5 “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb, a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a
warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.”
Children's children are the crown of old men;
and the glory of children are their fathers. Proverbs 17:6
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to
come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 19:14
Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Pastor Bertram, Julie & Leslie
Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.
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Game
Night
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Marvin Holt Green Pond
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20th Anniversary Service
11 Daylight Savings Time
20th Anniversary Service
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18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Bible Quiz Tournament
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Sunday School Skate
(ages 2-11)
Alabama Ladies’ Conference 3/16—3/17
Sundays:
Sunday School 9:30 am Worship Service 10:30 am Praise Explosion 6:00 pm
Mondays:
Church Prayer 7:00 pm
Tuesdays:
Prayer for Pastor/Family
Wednesdays:
Bible Study 7:00 pm
Fridays:
Student Night 6:45 pm
First Friday of Month Game Night 7-10 pm
Saturdays:
Men’s Prayer 7:00 pm