June 24, 2022

Wednesdays at 7:00 PM. Please knock hard if the door is locked, we will meet in the kitchen, thank you.

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Happy Friday and Preparation Day! As we draw close to the Sabbath hours, let us reflect on the following:

"Before the Sabbath begins, the mind as well as the body should be withdrawn from worldly business. God has set His Sabbath at the end of the six working days, that men may stop and consider what they have gained during the week in preparation for the pure kingdom..."  -- Testimonies to the Church, Vol, 6, p. 356

Men's Ministry Bible Study Group will be meeting on Sabbath, July 16, from 8:00 to 9:30 am in the Youth SS room. Our next study is on Lessons from the Life of Abraham. Those interested in inviting others to participate in this group Bible study and/or have any further questions, please contact Chris Pfeifer 360-833-3668 or Daniel Chung 503-619-6195.

Sabbath Fellowship Group -- Meets following the worship service at approximately 1:15 PM for 30 minutes. Come fellowship with us and share how God is working in your life.

Volunteers needed for the Evangelism Resource Center! If you are interested and able to assist with serving in the ERC following the Sabbath worship service, please contact Susie Pellecer (951-384-0820) or Michael Davis (503-707-1817). We greatly appreciate your help and your service to this vital ministry opportunity!

Stone Tower Education Program -  Requests for tuition assistance for Stone Tower members for the 2022 - 2023 school year must be submitted to Stone Tower's Education Committee by July 1, 2022. If you want to review the guidelines or would like an application packet, please send an email to Leslie Poulivaati at treasurer@stonetowersda.org.

A special Church Rededication service will be held at Stone Tower on July 2nd at the 11:00 am worship service! Join us as we rededicate Stone Tower Seventh-day Adventist church to God's mission To Seek and Save the Lost as an evangelism center in Portland.

The King's Heralds will be sharing their talents on July 2, 2022 at 7:45 p.m. Bring a friend and be blessed by the music they will share.

“Hold the Date” The Sabbath School Department will be hosting a Mission spotlight feature and the related afternoon program on July 30, 2022. The mission spotlight will feature Adventist Frontier Mission (AFM). The program title is Adventist Frontier Missionaries in the Middle East. There will be a church wide potluck prior to the afternoon meeting. 

Bible Study Training Resources! To see the training video and browse a variety of personal evangelism resources, please click on this link:

Donations to Ukraine -- want to help support general relief efforts in Ukraine? You can give online or mark your tithe envelope with "Ukraine" and we will send your offering through the world church to help those in need.

Thanks!

Josh Bradburn (503)-812-5724

Impact Your Health PDX 2022 needs student backpacks! Most school districts now give the students the supplies they need for school, but the family is expected to supply a backpack. We would like to help fill that need! Impact Your Health served over a hundred families with school supplies a couple of years ago. At our July 8 and 10, 2022 clinic, we would like for any child who cannot afford a backpack to be able to receive one. Donations of a backpack, or of money to purchase backpacks, are most appreciated. We'll need small, medium, and large sizes. You may drop the backpacks off at the Oregon Conference office at 19800 Oatfield Road, Portland, or Hood View Church at 26775 SE Kelso Road, Boring, or at Portland Adventist Academy at 1500 SE 96^th Ave., Portland 97216.

Camp Meeting needs your help! We could not run without you! With not having Camp Meeting for a couple years, it may have fallen off your radar for summer planning. This ministry largely happens because of the nearly 500 dedicated volunteers that give of their time to this ministry. Please sign up now by going to https://www.oregonadventist.org/gladstone-camp-meetings-volunteers. Questions? Don’t hesitate to contact Kerry at 503-850-3350 or email cm.reservations@oc.npuc.org. Thank you for your willingness to help make Camp Meeting happen!

We need help staffing our blood drive at Camp Meeting. We need people for sign-ups (sit at table in the plaza and recruit), Registration (checking people in for their appointment), Canteen (give juice and cookies in bloodmobile after donors are finished) The dates are, Tuesday and Wednesday 7/19 & 20 for sign-ups; Thursday and Friday 7/21 & 22 for Registration and Canteen. Sign up online at www.oregonadventist.org under Camp Meeting volunteers.  All volunteers must have a current background check—remember that we haven’t had an in-person camp meeting in 2 years so your background check may have expired! 

You can help save a life! The Red Cross Blood Drive is happening at Camp Meeting!  Get your preferred appointment time by pre-scheduling online at: www.redcrossblood.org, enter SDAconference in "Find a Blood Drive", or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767)" Due to the popularity of this event, our Red Cross Blood Drive is scheduled for two days—using two bloodmobiles—on Thursday, July 21, and Friday, July 22, from 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. Donors must be 16 years old with a signed Red Cross parental consent form.

PACS Job Openings! Portland Adventist Community Services is hiring! We have two crucial part-time positions available and are looking to interview immediately. If you or someone you know are interested in either of these part-time jobs, please email laura.pascoe@pacsonline.org. You can also 

visit www.pacsonline.org/jobs to learn more about the positions.

Thrift Store Assistant Manager: $18.50/hour, two days a week to start with, training available as long as you are a kind and organized person and a strong communicator. Your primary responsibility is to help the store manager support our volunteers as they are the engine behind everything PACS does.

Donor Experience Specialist: $17.50/hour, 12 hours/week to start with, training also available as long as you have excellent customer service skills. This person will be the face of PACS to those who come to donate their items. You’ll accept their donations, and work in the back of the store sorting, organizing, pricing, and supervising small teams of volunteers as they stock the store with the items we receive.

Date: Sunday, October 23

Location: Rossi Farms

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