There will be a fellowship dinner following the second worship service in the commons.
Resources
Pastor
Sabine VatelSabine Vatel serves on the pastoral team of Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University. She oversees Discipleship and Grow Group ministries. Her many interests include generational studies, people's stories, and one day speaking Spanish fluently. She finds joy in helping individuals connect to God and each other.
Offering
Saturday, October 07, 2017
Program:
As We Begin
I Believe in One God • Wolfgang Mozart / Praise the Lord (Isaiah 12) • Kenneth Logan
Praise
I Will Sing of My Redeemer • I Could Sing of Your Love Forever • Amazing Love
Prayer
Don Dronen
GROW Group Feature
Tithes & Offerings
We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight • James Biery
Children’s Story
Baby Dedication
Melanie Grace Rangel presented by Marlon & Milet Rangel with Rodlie Ortiz
Worship in Music
How Great Thou Art • Craig Courtney
Sermon
"Stand Alone" • Sabine Vatel
Connect Card
Father, Lead Me Day by Day • 482
Fellowship Dinner
Pioneer 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