Introit “The Lord Is in His Holy Temple” Hymnal # 692
Hymnal # 660** “Glory Be to the Father” Congregation
Call to Worship Psalm 136:26 Glenn Bailey
Invocation Peter Griswold
Welcome* Peter Griswold
Opening Hymn** “Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee” Hymnal # 241
Tithe & Offerings* Peter Griswold
World Budget
Offertory
Doxology** “Praise God . . .” Hymnal # 694
Meditation* Pastor Bill Warcholik
Ordinance of Humility
Footwashing Men to Foyer
Women to Classrooms
Children with Parents
The Lord’s Supper – Everyone is invited to gather in the Fellowship Hall
Approaching the Table** “Power in the Blood” Hymnal # 294
The Supper*
Our Response:
Closing Hymn** “Chief of Sinners” Hymnal # 295
Benediction Larry Dunder
An offering for those members with special needs
will be received as the congregation leaves for the footwashing.
Postlude* Selections
* Please be seated ** Please stand *** Please kneel
Offering next week: Local Church Budget
All loose offerings (including those in unmarked envelopes) will be applied
to the offering listed for today. Offerings in envelopes are applied as marked.
Sunset today: 4:25 Next Friday: 4:20
Church address: 8050 Post Rd, N. Kingstown, RI 02852 Phone: (401) 294-6356
Mail: PO Box 41, N. Kingstown, RI 02852 website: www.risda.org
Sabbath School 9:30 am
Welcome from the Superintendent – Nathel Warcholik
Lesson Study – Pastor Bill Warcholik
The Church Sharing 10:45-10:50 am
The Church at Praise 10:50-11:00 am
Praise Team
The Praise Team welcomes new members!
If you are interested, please call Sandy Cregan at 385-9580.
Announcements
****Sabbath, November 14, Sermon by Pastor Bill Warcholik. We will be serving SPECIAL AGAPE LUNCH immediately following our communion service. This will NOT be a regular “potluck” meal. We will be serving specific foods. If you are interested in helping with this luncheon, please contact Maggie at 539-3418.
Sabbath School Discussion Starter
A lust for power and authority is one of the deadliest sins, because it is often hard to detect and is usually cloaked in the “noblest” of motives. Seldom are people bold enough to admit that they seek power for their own gratification. Politicians want power “in order to help the people.” CEOs want power in order to “benefit the company.”
Is it possible that even church leaders can fall into the same trap?
Read the following excerpt from Steve Walikonis’s article on power and discuss the following questions: (1) What kinds of power does God have a right to use?
(2) What kinds of power does God actually choose to use? Give specific examples to support your answer.
(3) What kinds of power are legitimately used by Christian leaders? Give the reasons for your answers.
Excerpt: “How should a church leader relate to the phenomenon of
power? J. R. P. French and B. Raven identified five kinds of power:
“1. Expert power: based on B’s perception of A’s competence.
“2. Referent power: based on B’s identification with or liking for A.
“3. Reward Power: based on A’s ability to provide rewards for B.
“4. Coercive power: based on B’s perception that A can provide penalties
for failure to comply with A.
“5. Legitimate power: based on the internalization of common norms or
values.”—“The Pastor and Power,” Ministry, November 2007, p. 21.
Pastor Bill Warcholik (401) 822-3345 Elder Joe-Ewing Chow (401) 284-3131
email: BiLL144@mac.com Clerk Nathel Warcholik (401) 822-3345
Elder Larry Dunder (401) 539-3418 Treasurer Peter Cregan (401) 385-9580
Elder Peter Griswold (401) 467-7692 Elder Sandy Cregan (401) 385-9580
Church Calendar
Today: A SPECIAL AGAPE LUNCH immediately after the
SPECIAL COMMUNION SERVICE. All are welcome!
This not one of our regular style “pot lucks”. A very
special menu has been developed. Please contact Maggie
at 539-3418 if you want to bring something for the meal.
2:30 pm, Adventist Advantage TV (see TV schedule below for details): Quiet Hour & Dr. Nedley.
Mondays: 11:00 am. Prayer and Bible study.
Please pray for our prison ministry (ACI medium one)
that happens every Monday night & is led by Bruce
Knight, assisted by Michael Pelletier & Pastor Bill.
Want to help? Please contact Michael at 521-0238.
Nov 17, Tue: 7:00 pm, CHIP alumni meeting in Johnston.
Everyone (not just CHIPPERS) welcome! RSVP:648-1490.
7:00 pm, Regeneration, a Christ-centered,
12-step program, meets at the Johnston church with
Nancy Ingham leading. Everyone welcome.
Wednesdays: 11 am, our Bible study and prayer time. We are now reading the book “Prophets and Kings” - a very helpful commentary on the second half of the Old Testament. Free copies of the book are available.
Thursdays: Please pray for our prison ministry (ACI -minimum
security) that happens every Thursday night & is led by
Peter Griswold, Don Panciera & Charlie Petit. To help,
call Peter Griswold (467-7692).
Some Fridays: Our church Praise Team welcomes new
members! For info, please call Sandy at 385-9580.
NEWS BULLETIN
After signing the contract for installation of the state-mandated fire alarm system costing about $7,450, we discovered the oil vent pipe for our heating system had rusted through leaving a hole. We may have to remove and replace the existing oil tank. We are getting bids for the work. If you have any information that would help, call IMMEDIATELY. We are asking the LORD to replenish the funds that will be spent in the next two months for these items that were not in our budget. Thank you for considering making additional OFFERINGS. If you do, please be sure to write the amount of your offering on the line for LOCAL CHURCH BUDGET.
2009 Sunset Time / Offering Schedule
Nov 13/14 4:25/World Budget
Nov 20/21 4:20/Local Church Budget
Nov 27/28 4:16/Atlantic Union College
Other Events& Notices
(out of Burrillville, Johnston, & Wickford District)
Abundant Living Weekend in Norwich CT, Nov 20-22
Paula Eakins, M.S. & Curtis Eakins, N.D., 3ABN telecast
hosts, will present free health seminars; topics include:
• A Balanced Approach for Stress Management
• “Paula’s Story”- her personal story on conquering cancer
* Food samples and free recipes!
• and more!
Cooking Class- Cooking on a Budget!
Advance Registration - Contact: (860) 889-4742 or
Email: norwichsda@charter.net (to register for cooking class)
$10 per person fee for cooking class ONLY! If you or a guest
would like to attend the cooking class and are unable to pay
the fee, please contact us at the email address above.
Due to the many questions I am receiving about vaccines and the flu, here is some information from Dr. Handysides, Director of the Department of Health Ministries of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The short version is to get the vaccine (when it's available and recommended for your age and health condition) and to follow the lifestyle recommendations outlined below. (Unfortunately, this bulletin does not allow space for the entire article. However, if you ask for it, I will prepare copies of the entire report.)
Please consult your physician before using any information you find in this health article. Only your doctor can determine if the information you find in this article is right for you.
Q: With the recent outbreak of a new strain of influenza, there has been a lot of talk about the dangers of vaccines. I have seen a lot of activity on the internet about the dangers, and wonder if there could be a “cover-up” of the side effects. What is your take on the situation?
A: Firstly, we too have noted the flurry of internet activity, much of it against the use of vaccines. It is important to recognize that there is a vocal “anti-vaccine lobby” and always has been. This group pounces upon any and every possible side effect, real or imagined, to try to dissuade people from using vaccines. These are the group of people who promoted the idea that thimerosal, a mercury-containing stabilizer in measles vaccines, was causing autism. The amount of mercury was so tiny, it contributed little more to our total mercury load than does the atmospheric pollution prevalent everywhere; yet, the claims resulted in multi-millions of dollars being spent on research to either confirm or refute the allegations. No evidence of linkage between the vaccines and autism could be found. Every time a new vaccine is developed, the same type of scare campaign is mounted.
It is very difficult to tie a rare side effect to any medication, and studies require the use of control groups to monitor the background rates of spontaneous events. For example, a person may claim the vaccine causes headaches, but if one thousand vaccine recipients are compared to one thousand controls and the rate for both groups is 16 headaches per 1,000, it is difficult to claim a vaccine is causing the effect. A single person who develops a rash or neuropathy or diabetes shortly after the vaccine does not prove it is a complication of the vaccine. Such conditions occur spontaneously, and the event may be coincidence rather than caused by a vaccine.
Vaccines are tested in large numbers of people, and equally large numbers of controls are monitored. It is these studies that reveal what may be real complications. The numbers of real complications with vaccines are usually extremely small, though reputable producers of any vaccine or medication will withdraw a product rather than risk the population’s health.
As with most things, people neglect to enter into the equation the results of not doing something. For example, with birth control pills, side effects are well-described; but consider the far greater number of complications that attend a given number of pregnancies.
Modern societies have not faced the lethal epidemics that confronted our great grandparents. Few indeed have sat watching infants gasp to the grave with diphtheria. Not many beggars with distorted, wasted limbs grab our attention in the cities today. Smallpox killed half its victims, leaving the rest scarred for life with disfiguring pox marks all over their faces. Vaccination has eradicated this disease. To watch a youngster in the throes of tetanus is a gut-wrenching experience. I spent two weeks supervising the care of an Amish youngster who had to be paralyzed and ventilated while he battled with tetanus.
As a society, we have no understanding of the specters of death. Vaccines rank with clean water and sewage disposal, refrigeration, and antibiotics as the greatest advances in medicine of the last one hundred years. Ellen White and her household were vaccinated against smallpox, giving us a sensible example. Measles, mumps, and rubella are diseases whole classes of medical graduates may not have seen.
Studies have shown that children who are not immunized are not only at risk for themselves, but for others. Outbreaks of disease often have geographic boundaries that are defined by pockets of the population refusing such immunization. In fact, unvaccinated children have 35 times greater chances of contracting measles. Some delay vaccination erroneously, seeking to protect their younger children. Their children then become vulnerable at an age of high risk to contracting disease. Even what used to be common-place diseases, like chicken pox, can prove lethal. I shall never forget seeing a 7-year-old boy die from chicken pox encephalopathy, nor the agony of his anguished mother as she clutched his lifeless little body.
Because many states demand immunization, but leave an exemption for religious objection, some seek to have the Church endorse their personal choice as a religious tenet of Adventism. It is dishonest for us to participate in such deception.
Clearly, we recognize an individual’s right to choose – but would be duplicitous to pretend this refusal of vaccine is based on Seventh-day Adventist doctrine.
Unlike many Americans, I trust information coming from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta – and I’m a British Canadian! There is no reason in the world why vaccine producers would do anything but produce the best, most effective, and safest vaccine possible. It is in their own, as well as society’s, best interest to do so. There may be the occasional complication, but thousands of lives will be saved. If you choose to refuse immunization, that is your prerogative. But it is not an evidence-based position to urge others to follow your example.
Church Information
Seventh-day Adventist® Church
8050 Post Road, P. O. Box 41
North Kingstown, RI 02852
Adventist and Seventh-day Adventist are Registered Trademarks of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church and are used by permission.
Church phone: (401) 294-6356.
Church location: 8050 Post Road, North Kingstown, RI
(across the street from the Tourist Info Center on US 1)
Pastor Bill Warcholik’s home phone - (401) 822-3345
Text messages: 401 559 4899
Email – BiLL144@mac.com
Check out our website:
Go to www.risda.org, and select Wickford
Want to help with our website? Contact Pastor Bill.
Please send bulletin information to Joyce Alferez at Jp_alferez@hotmail.com
Some Seventh-day Adventist TV & Radio Programs
Saturdays: 6:30 a.m.; Your Story Hour, WARV, 1590 AM , Warwick.
10:30 a.m. Voice of Prophecies, WNRI, 1380 AM, Woonsocket.
2:30 p.m.; Adventist Advantage TV on Cox Cable
statewide interconnect “B” channel 14 and on Verizon channel 33.
Sundays: 6:30 a.m.; It Is Written, WSBK, channel 38 from Boston.
7:00 a.m.; Adventist Advantage TV on Cox Cable public access
channel 18 and Verizon TV channel 31 in Kent County.
1:30 p.m.; It Is Written is on Cox Cable channel 173.
10:00 p.m.; Amazing Facts, WMCA, 570 AM.
Mondays: 12:00 p.m. (Noon); The Evidence with Dr. Dwight Nelson is on
Cox Cable channel 173.
Tuesdays: 2:00 p.m.; Adventist Advantage TV on Cox Cable public access
channel 18 and Verizon TV channel 31 in Kent County.
Wednesdays: 6:30 a.m.; Amazing Facts is on Family Network (channel 38 on Cox Cable).
Seventh-day Adventist worldwide televion networks include Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN), Hope Channel, & Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN).
