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Good News About the Black Swan

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Dwight K. Nelson

Dwight Nelson served as lead pastor of the Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University from 1983 to 2023. During his time at Pioneer he spoke on the “New Perceptions” telecast, taught at the theological seminary and has written books, including The Chosen. He and his wife, Karen, are blessed with two married children and 2 granddaughters.

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Is the coronavirus pandemic a Black Swan? No doubt. Then are there Black Swan survival principles we can implement to get us through? Good news—there are three of them—from one of the first Black Swans to hit this planet. Share the news.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Program: 
Welcome & Announcements
Rodlie Ortiz
Opening Music
"What Wondrous Love Is This?" • Kenneth Logan
Kenneth Logan
Call to Worship & Prayer
Jerry & Juliette Horton
Hymn of Praise
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah"
Ana, Marina, & Vladimir Slavujević
Praise
Joshua Goines, piano; Lucas Aguiar, electric guitar; Ryan Jarvis, acoustic guitar; L’Mar Hall, bass guitar; Nathaniel Chung, keyboard; Trevor Furst, cajón Vocalists: Annelise Burghardt, Sinegugu Katenga, Juwel Howard, and James-Andrew Britton Hearn
Hosanna (Praise is Rising), I Will Sing of My Redeemer, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit Rain Down
Prayer
Bryan & Becky von Dorpowski
Children's Story
Chad Bernard
Children's Prayer
Micaiah Legoh, Hanan Legoh
Scripture Reading
Mugabe Menani
Worship in Music
"Elegy in Trying Times" • Kenneth Logan
Byron Graves, clarinet; Kenneth Logan, digital harp
Homily
"Corona Care Kit: Good News About the Black Swan"
Dwight K. Nelson
Hymn of Commitment
"How Great Thou Art"
Vladimir Slavujević
Closing Music
"What Wondrous Love Is This?" • Kenneth Logan
Kenneth Logan

More In This Series

04/25/2020
How to Stay Contagious
With all this talk about eradicating the virus, turns out there is one contagion you don’t want to lose. Learn the very simple steps to staying contagious, and life beyond these four walls will never be the same again.
04/11/2020
Resurrexit— ‘Wake Up, Sleeper’
For Easter weekend, let your heart thrill to the very best news of all. Pandemic or not, this is the one piece of information that can set your heart free. From fear. Share the good news with your family and friends. There is a way out.
04/04/2020
The Day the Virus Killed God
Turns out we’re not the only one infected by this pandemic. Through a stunning paradigm shift, brood over the implications of the killer-virus that took down our one last hope. Spoiler alert: we have more hope now than ever before.
03/28/2020
How to Survive and Thrive at Home
With almost half the nation locked down and entire nations elsewhere in quarantine, what practical steps can I take to not only survive but actually thrive inside my four walls? You’ll be surprised at how simple your thriving can turn out to be.
03/21/2020
Rehearsing for the Big One
The breath-taking speed of the coronavirus pandemic has more than a few people concerned. Those who believe in the soon return of Christ now wonder—could it be sooner than we think? Can you get there from here? In the midst of our bad news, is there hope for the future?
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Fellowship Dinner
Pioneer Commons

 There will be a fellowship dinner following the second worship service in the commons.

Offering for January 10, 2026

Religious Liberty
 

Seventh-day Adventists have stood firmly for religious liberty—for everyone—for more than 150 years. But do you know the reason why? Part of the reason is that, when our church was founded, almost every American state had Sunday-keeping laws on the books. Adventist pastors, farmers, laborers, and others were arrested, jailed, or fined for doing “secular work” on Sunday. Even Wille White, son of James and Ellen, was arrested in Oakland, California, in 1882 for keeping the Pacific Press Publishing presses operating on a Sunday! But that’s not the full story. The deeper reason why we continue to stand for religious liberty—in the courts, before legislatures, and through the pages of Liberty magazine—is because we want to reflect the character of the God we serve. He’s a God who created us in His image and who has given each one of us the freedom to choose whom we will worship. He’s a God who, in the words of Ellen White, “desires only the service of love,” which “cannot be won by force or authority” (The Desire of Ages, 22).

Today, please help support this vital ministry of religious liberty. It’s a ministry that defends not only the rights of individual conscience, but also the ability of our church to continue to do its mission. And as we face uncertain days ahead, your prayers and support are needed now, more than ever.
 

—North American Division Stewardship Ministries