19 August 2022 | Mike Tucker believes the entire world is grieving. COVID, monkeypox, war, climate change, economic downturns, and more have made it impossible for anyone to feel normal. Loss has become a constant and unavoidable part of life. Mike shares his experience with loss and what it has taught him about God, himself, […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-presents-mike-tucker-tears-to-joy-one-mans-journey-through-grief/
Caribbean Sustainable Energy Professional Cherri-Ann Farquharson: Support the AT Summer Fundraiser!
Caribbean sustainable energy professional Cherri-Ann Farquharson shares why it’s so important to support the AT Summer Fundraiser. Follow her lead by giving here. Source: https://atoday.org/caribbean-sustainable-energy-professional-cherri-ann-farquharson-support-the-at-summer-fundraiser/
UNASP Students and Employees Participate in a Special Project in Jordan; and other world news
First in the news, young volunteers from Adventist University Center of Sao Paulo (UNASP), Brazil, support a center of influence in Madaba, Jordan. Working with over 50 local children and teens, they provided guitar and English lessons, school tutoring, and Pathfinders and Adventurers meetings. Over 2,500 young people from across Europe attended the 2022 Young Adventist Congress in Lahti, Finland. Themed “Plug In,” key speaker David Asscherick encouraged young people to remain connected with Jesus, inspiring attendees to renew their commitment to Jesus. The close of the event celebrated 12 baptisms! In a world filled with pain and destruction, Pastor Ramon Canales reminded more than 600 people from all over North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean to be “the light of the world” at the Festival of the Laity. Appropriately themed “His Light Prevails,” participants were reminded of the World Church’s “Total Member Involvement” initiative and were motivated to be active members in the Great Commission. Advent Health Orlando conducts simulation training for their employees and other community workers to be proactive emergency responders, ready to meet the needs of their community when the time comes. These stories and more this week on ANN Video. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoK8N0d2msw
What Should I Make for Potluck?
AT’s visual artist, Ameme, swoops in with a genius idea for your Sabbath potluck dish…🙌🤣 Make our Sabbath by supporting AT’s Summer Fundraiser here: Source: https://atoday.org/what-should-i-make-for-potluck/
Sabbath: A Life of Praise
Sabbath Afternoon
Read for This Week’s Study: Philippians 4:4-7, Joshua 5:13-6:20, Psalm 145:1-21, Acts 16:16-34, 2 Chronicles 20:1-30.
Memory Text: “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4, NKJV).
It’s always easy to shout with joy to the Lord when we feel joy. It’s not so easy, however, when things are bad, when we are in the worst situations imaginable, when the crucible heats up. Yet, it’s precisely then that we need — perhaps more than ever — to praise God, for praise is a means of helping us sustain faith.
Indeed, praise can transform even our darkest circumstances, maybe not in the sense of its changing the facts around us, but in the sense that it can change us, and those around us, in a way that helps us face challenges.
Praise is faith in action. It may not always be natural to us, but when we practice praise so that it becomes a natural part of our lives, it has the power both to convert and to conquer.
The Week at a Glance: What is praise? How could praise be such a powerful spiritual weapon in difficult circumstances? How can praise transform us and the situation around us?
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, August 27.
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