by Adventist Naija | Jan 3, 2023 | Mission Story, Sabbath School, world Church
Happy New Year saints of God. May peace, love, and prosperity follow you.
This quarter we feature the East-Central Africa Division, whose territory includes 11 countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In this region of 419 million people, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has 4.5 million members, or about one Adventist for every 93 people. Three years ago, the ratio was one Adventist for every 100 people.
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will assist six mission projects in five countries.
Content
UGANDA
4 Reluctant Nurse | Jan. 7
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
6 Hole in Stomach | Jan. 14
8 Fiery Plane Crash | Jan. 21
TANZANIA
10 Prayer of Faith | Jan. 28
12 God’s Time | Feb. 4
14 Life-Altering Classes, Part 1 | Feb. 11
16 Life-Altering Classes, Part 2 | Feb. 18
18 Pastor or Politician? | Feb. 25
RWANDA
20 Escaping Controversy | March 4
22 Construction Saves Lives | March 11
24 School Built on Prayer | March 18
26 Thirteenth Sabbath: No Debt | March 25
28 Future Thirteenth Sabbath Projects
29 Leader’s Resources
32 Map
by Deborah Onovae | Jan 2, 2023 | Sabbath School, world Church
The beginner lesson study is focused on grace, service, worship and community. Lesson study is a core part of the sabbath school.
Beginner lessons ministers to children ages birth through 2 years.
Download Sabbath School Study Guide, First Quarter 2023 For Beginner.
Activities
Introduction
Lesson 1 – January
Lesson 2 – February
Lesson 3 – March
Memory verse
by Adventist Naija | Jan 2, 2023 | Sabbath School, world Church
Hurray! It is 2023, It is time to dive into another interesting Sabbath School Lesson. What a privilege to be able to study our Bible and the Adult Bible Study Guide in a small group setting and make the wonderful biblical instructions practical for our spiritual experience.
The theme of 1st quarter lesson in 2023 is: Managing for the Master: Till He Comes (1st Quarter 2023)
Download materials for Sabbath School Study Guide, First Quarter 2023
Contents and Introduction:
Lesson 1: Part of God’s Family—December 31–January 6
Lesson 2: God’s Covenants With Us—January 7–13
Lesson 3: The Tithing Contract—January 14–20
Lesson 4: Offerings for Jesus—January 21–27
Lesson 5: Dealing With Debt—January 28–February 3
Lesson 6: Laying Up Treasure in Heaven —February 4–10
Lesson 7: Unto the Least of These —February 11–17
Lesson 8: Planning for Success—February 18–24
Lesson 9: Beware of Covetousness—February 25–March 3
Lesson 10: Giving Back—March 4–10
Lesson 11: Managing in Tough Times—March 11–17
Lesson 12: Rewards of Faithfulness—March 18–24
by Adventist Naija | Dec 8, 2022 | world Church
Sabbath Celebration
The final Sabbath of Ten Days of Prayer to celebrate God’s goodness and mighty power. Share how you have experienced the power of prayer and the good news of the everlasting gospel during the past ten days. Rejoice in what God has done, is doing, and will do.
The needs of each congregation are unique, so please work with local leaders to develop a specific plan for your church. Here are some possible items to include in your final Sabbath church service.
Theme:
Back to the Altar—Making a Place for God
Theme Verse:
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him” ( John 4:23).
Possible Hymns:
Sweet Hour of Prayer
In the Garden
Give Me the Bible
Abide With Me
Give Me Jesus
O Worship the King
Showers of Blessing
Softly and Tenderly
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Sermon Ideas:
Have a pastor, elder, or prayer leader preach a short sermon about the importance of regular personal devotions and family
worship. Scripture passage: John 4:23.
[OR]
Have the Ten Days of Prayer participants take turns offering 1- or 2-minute summaries for each of the 10 daily prayer guides.
Share the title, the main verse, and a key thought. (Plan ahead so the summaries stay within 1-2 minutes. For most people, one minute is 125-150 spoken words.)
[OR]
Enlist three individuals of different age groups to give 5-minute presentations on how they do personal devotions. In addition, have one or two families share ideas of how to facilitate engaging family worship experiences. The youth could also help with music or offer testimonies.
Conclude with an appeal for listeners to make personal devotional time and family worship a priority.
Other Program Ideas:
Member testimonies of answered prayer, small-group prayer time, announcement of future prayer or service activities, children’s story about daily worship and prayer, special music selections, etc
by Adventist Naija | Dec 8, 2022 | world Church
Back to the Altar — Empowered to Finish the Work
DAY 10 — I WILL GO!
“Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me”(Isaiah 6:8).
Worshipers Go
Who is willing to go? That’s the question God asked Isaiah when he caught a life-altering vision of God. The moment was filled with amazing special effects. God was seated on a throne “high and lifted up” (Isaiah 6:1). His robe filled the temple as six-winged angels serenaded Him with a chorus of “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!” (verse 2). As God began to speak, the doorposts of the temple began to shake and smoke filled the house. The whole episode so “undid” Isaiah that he cried, “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts” (verse 5). Can we blame him? Who can catch a glimpse of God and not be unmasked?
Isaiah was awed by the holiness and majesty of God, but God does not reveal Himself purely for our astonishment. God’s revelation
of Himself is usually followed by a request. This was the case, for instance, when He gave John a revelation of Jesus Christ while exiled
on the island of Patmos. John’s vision of the end of the world and the return of Christ was meant to be shared. Likewise, when God
revealed Himself to Isaiah, He was looking for a messenger willing to spread His message of love and warning. Isaiah’s answer was
one for the ages: “Here am I! Send me” (verse 8)
by Adventist Naija | Dec 8, 2022 | world Church
Back to the Altar — Worship Keeps the Mind
DAY 9 — DON’T LOSE YOUR MIND
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life”(Proverbs 4:23).
Heart of the Matter The unregenerate human heart is something to behold. If you watch the news from day to day, you will see human beings acting in ways that make us question their humanity. Wonderful acts of love and kindness happen around the globe each moment of the
day, but there is no doubt that evil is likewise manifested wherever we look. While we rightly obsess about unending wars, political corruption, and senseless violence on a mass scale, we must also acknowledge that wherever dastardly deeds are done, deranged human hearts are at work.
Quite frankly, the Bible does not have much good to say about human hearts that are un-surrendered to Jesus Christ. God states, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). The heart to which God refers
here is not so much the “ticker” in our chest but our “brain heart”—the seat of our thinking, the center of our intellectual and moral being, the fount from whence our desires flow. Jesus made the point even clearer when He observed, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45)
