Friends, Fun, Fellowship
This week is the first Sabbath of Camp Meeting for SNEC. After morning services at Camp Meeting, potluck will be held at Carrie Applebury’s home:
234 Merriam Ave
Leominster MA 01453
(617) 749-8831
(Please park on the street as there is limited parking in the driveway). Carrie is making veggie burgers, bring the fixings!
Please bring a folding chair and or a blanket, if you have one!
Because the summer months are upon us when many will be going elsewhere for the summer and Camp Meeting and vacations will be happening, it has been decided that choir will take a hiatus until September. We plan to start practicing again in mid-September and our goals for the coming year will be to plan for a Christmas Concert (not during the regular Sabbath Service, but an evening program where we can invite the community), an Easter program (again for the community) and music to perform at Camp Meeting next summer. This year the Boston Temple is again not represented musically at Camp Meeting. Two years ago our choir performed as well as several of our members singing with the combined choir. Last year only one member sang with the combined choir and we were not represented at all in the afternoon music program on the second Sabbath of Camp Meeting. We'd like to be represented next year. So in the fall come prepared to commit to practice weekly and give our best to the music program of our church to the honor and glory of God.
A new Bible worker is coming to Boston with his wife and four children. They are willing to pay and are looking for an apartment to rent affordably. They need a place of their own with at least two bedrooms and its own kitchen and bathroom. If you know of any possible spaces, please contact Jack Phillips at jackp@iiw.org.
Once again, Compassion Boston is partnering with Outreach’s End Hunger Northeast initiative to pack 10,000 meals to be distributed in Boston-area shelters. This is a repeat of last year’s packaging event. This year, the event will be held on the first Sunday of Southern New England Conference Campmeeting at3:45 pm in Cedar Hall at the SNEC Campgrounds (24 Sawyer Street, South Lancaster, MA 01561). Please register to volunteer at: www.compassionboston.org/events/10000meals
We’re four months away from the It Is Written Evangelistic Series. Watch this video from John Bradshaw, encouraging local churches.
Compassion Boston will host a prayer walk on the second weekend of each month in a different greater Boston community from now until the October Evangelistic meetings. Join us on June 11 at 4:00 pm for our first walk in Everett, hosted by the Everett Portuguese SDA Church (21 Cottage St., Everett, MA 02149). To sign up or get more information, visit: www.compassionboston.org/prayerwalks.
Know the methods of distributing donated goods, learn how to connect to the SNEC Disaster Network to get help or to offer help in the event of a disaster. Training for those interested will be June 5th from 9:30 am – 3:00 pm at the Waterford SDA Church in Quaker Hill, CT. To register, please call 1 (860) 444-1115.
A new link has been added to the BT website which will allow everyone to make contributions via website on our “Adventist Giving Page.” To check it out and make your pledges please visit our website at www.bostontemple.org and click on the “online giving” link at the bottom right of the page. Thank you for contributing!
We will be having our Health Sabbath this June 11, with an entire day of activities focusing on God’s health message for these last days. Learn about the Biblical connections between the everlasting gospel and true abundant health. The program will include a special guest presentation at 3 pm by Gabriella Rus-Neascu from Maranatha Natural Living on natural remedies to balance stress and hormones. Please take some flyers from the lobby to share with and invite friends, family, neighbors or coworkers.
1st Reading: Accept the name of Jeffrey Futcher, from Glendale SDA Church, Phoenix, AZ.