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The SanctuaryApostolic PentecostalChurch
Ministries for YouThe Sanctuary VisionFAMILY Bible Quizzing (3-19) Bible Classes Children’s Church Refuge (12-21) Hyphen (19-35, single) Young Marrieds (19-35) Men’s Ministry Ladies’ Ministry JOY Group (Just Over Youth 55 )CHURCH Hospitality DramaThe Sanctuary ApostolicPentecostal Church family and Iare driven to see the fullness ofGod’s potential reached andpreached in all aspects of ourlives.Pentecost is not just life’sgreatest experience, but a wayof living and a relationship withthe One True God. Youth/Adult ChoirCOMMUNITY Home Bible Studies Outreach Van MinistryThe Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal ChurchPlease see a greeter/hostess to learn more or toget involved in any of these ministries-Pastor Todd Bertram
Village Church in Wau, SOUTH SUDANOVER 100 young people filled with theHoly Ghost during NYC Kenya !!!Ministering in Village Church in South Sudan12 newChurches startedin South Sudanin 2017,Several meetunder trees.787 Souls Baptized in Jesus name and 462 filled with the Holy Ghost in two months !!
ScheduleSunday:Wednesday:9:50 am Pre-service Prayer10:30 am Worship Service &Children’s Church5:30 pm Pre-service Prayer6:00 pm Praise Explosion6:30 pm Pre-service Prayer7:00 pm Bible StudyMonday:7:00 pm PrayerFriday:6:45 pm “Student Night” (Youthages 12-21)Saturday:7:00 am Men’s PrayerUpcoming Events& Calendar(Current month’s calendar next page)A Tentative Look AheadFebruary 2—Sis. Bertram’s Birthday GatheringFebruary 15-16—Alabama Youth ConventionJanuary Birthdays2Candace Barrett3Cynthia MartinOctavious Leek4Nyjai Barrett6Maribel BaltazarAnabel Baltazar7Paul Morse13Shenedra Williams14Deborah Passmore17Donna Holt18Cheryl Hadden20Joe Price21Mathew Williams24Uriah Baltazar25Julie WillliamsLeslie Williams26Betty DayJohn Gerrard29Jonathan CorcoranMarch 8-9—Ladies’ ConferenceMarch 16—Church WorkdayMarch 31—Church Anniversary ServiceApril 6—Bible Quiz Tournament & PastorBirthday DinnerMay 4—Mother’s Day LuncheonMay 11—Bible Quiz Tournament & JOY EventMay 18—Music AppreciationMay 27—Memorial Day PicnicPlease be aware of any announcementsmade during services. Events above aresubject to change/cancellation.
Sundays:Sun.Mon.110:30 amWorship Service &Children’s Church6:00 pmPraise ays:7:00 pmChurch PrayerTues.891011121819Fasting & Prayer Jan. 6—121314151617Bible QuizTournamentWednesdays:7:00 pmBible Study20212223246:45 pmStudent NightSaturdays:7:00 amMen’s Prayer272826JOY GroupMeetBible Quiz TournamentFridays:25293031
Bible Quizzing is a leadership development ministry of UPCI Youth Ministries for youth 12-18 years old based on the memorization and application of the Word of God. This site offers information, scheduling, and resources to help launch, grow, and promote Bible Quizzing in yourchurch and/or district.AL 2019 Bible Quiz Tournament Schedule1.2.3.4.5.Jan 19th Bessemer (The Sanctuary)Feb 23rd Montgomery (Bible Fellowship Apostolic Church)April 6th Bessemer (The Sanctuary)May 11th Montgomery (Bible Fellowship Apostolic Church)June 1st (Finals) Bessemer (The Sanctuary)You can register for 2019 tournaments online by clicking on the buttonbelow. If you have any questions about Bible Quizzing please contactKyle Bertram at kbertram84@gmail.com
Campbells On A MissionWe want to thankeverybody thathas been with usall these years.Your love, prayers, support andFour years ago our dear friend, César Morales, tookwords of encourthis picture in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Weagement kept ushave been saving it ever since to announce that wegoing during theare pregnant!!! Little did we know then all the upsmost difficultand downs that we were going to go thru and all the heartaches that were ahead oftimes.us, BUT GOD has been faithful and He made a way where there was no way. Wecan finally say, "One plus one equals a new heartbeat"! Baby Campbell is due thelast week of April 2019!!!Christmas is all about sharing love with your friends and loved ones. That iswhy we are taking time to share love witheach of you. We pray you have a blessedand Merry Christmas."
Excerpts from an article by David Mathis, DesiringGod.org—SharpenYour Affectionswith FastingFasting has fallen on hard times — at least, it seems, among our overstuffed bellies in theAmerican church. I speak as one of the well-fed. Sure, you’ll find your exceptions hereand there. Some pockets even prize the countercultural enough to steer their vehicles intothe ditch of asceticism. But they are vastly outnumbered by the rest of us veering toward the opposite shoulder. The dangers of asceticism are great — surpassed only by those of overindulgence.Our problem might be how we think of fasting. If the accent is on abstinence, and fasting is some mere duty to perform, then onlythe most iron-willed among us will get over the social and self-pampering hurdles to actually put this discipline into practice.But if we are awakened to see fasting for the joy it can bring, as a means of God’s grace to strengthen and sharpen Godward affections, then wemight find ourselves holding a powerful new tool for enriching our enjoyment of Jesus.According to Whitney, (Don Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines, 160). fasting’s spiritual purposes include:strengthening prayer (Ezra 8:23; Joel 2:13; Acts 13:3)seeking God’s guidance (Judges 20:26; Acts 14:23)expressing grief (1 Samuel 31:13; 2 Samuel 1:11–12)seeking deliverance or protection (2 Chronicles 20:3–4; Ezra 8:21–23)expressing repentance and returning to God (1 Samuel 7:6; Jonah 3:5–8)humbling oneself before God (1 Kings 21:27–29; Psalm 35:13)expressing concern for the work of God (Nehemiah 1:3–4; Daniel 9:3)ministering to the needs of others (Isaiah 58:3–7)overcoming temptation and dedicating yourself to God (Matthew 4:1–11)
Fasting, continued from precious pageJesus Assumes We’ll FastWhile the New Testament includes no mandate that Christians fast on certain days or with specific frequency, Jesus clearly assumes we will fast. It’s a tooltoo powerful to leave endlessly on the shelf collecting dust. While many biblical texts mention fasting, the two most important come just chapters apart inMatthew’s Gospel.Jesus doesn’t say ‘if you fast,’ but ‘when you fast.’The first is Matthew 6:16–18, which comes in sequence with Jesus’s teachings on generosity and prayer. Fasting is as basic to Christianity as giving to others and asking from God. The key here is that Jesus doesn’t say “if you fast,” but “when you fast.”Second is Matthew 9:14–15, which Richard Foster says may be “the most important statement in the New Testament on whether or not Christians shouldfast today” (Celebration of Discipline, 53). Jesus’s answer is a resounding yes.Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can thewedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then theywill fast.” (Matthew 9:14–15)When Jesus, our bridegroom, was here on earth among his disciples, it was a time for the discipline of feasting. But now that he is “taken away” from hisdisciples, “they will fast.” Not “they might, if they ever get around to it,” but “they will.” Which is confirmed by the pattern of fasting that emerged rightaway in the early church (Acts 9:9; 13:2; 14:23).Whitney captures it like this: “Fasting can be an expression of finding your greatest pleasure and enjoyment in life from God” (176). And he quotes a helpful phrase from Matthew Henry, who says that fasting serves to “put an edge upon devout affections.”Put an Edge on Your FeelingsWhat makes fasting such a gift is its ability, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to focus our feelings and their expression toward God in prayer. Fasting walksarm in arm with prayer — as John Piper says, she is “the hungry handmaiden of prayer,” who “both reveals and remedies.”She reveals the measure of food’s mastery over us — or television or computers or whatever we submit to again andagain to conceal the weakness of our hunger for God. And she remedies by intensifying the earnestness of our prayerand saying with our whole body what prayer says with the heart: I long to be satisfied in God alone! (When I Don’tDesire God, 171)That burn in your gut, that rolling fire in your belly, demanding that you feed it more food, signals game time for fasting as a means of grace. Only as wevoluntarily embrace the pain of an empty stomach do we see how much we’ve allowed our belly to be our god (Philippians 3:19).And in that gnawing ache of growing hunger is the engine of fasting, generating the reminder to bend our longings for food Godward and inspire intensified longings for Jesus. Fasting, says Piper, is the physical exclamation point at the end of the sentence, “This much, O God, I want you!” (Hunger for God,25–26WILL YOU FAST?
Holy Ghost Baptism, Ladies’ Christmas Brunch,Christmas Banquet, Baby Shower, more renovation cleanup from our young'uns.and of course, can’t forget“National Hat Day”, lol! Justkidding.
Sheavesfor Christ,December2018THANK YOU ALABAMA FORGIVING 142,000 TO SFC IN2018!Sheaves for Christ is thefundraising ministry of theGeneral Youth Division of the UnitedPentecostal Church International. Sinceits inception in 1953, over 120 millionhas been raised to fund missions andministries around the world .T H E FO LLO W I N G A R E J U S T A FE WE X A M P L ES O F W H A T C A N B E A C C O M P LI SH ED B Y G I V I N G T O SH EA V ES FO R C H R I S T : A missionary having the vehicle he needs to carry the gospel to the furthest regions of his country A North American missionary having a building so that he can share truth in his community. A child finding healing and a future at Tupelo Children’s Mansion or Lighthouse Ranch for Boys. A student pursuing her calling and Christian Education with a SFC Scholarship. A family overcoming chemical dependency and finding restoration through Spirit of Freedom Ministries .
2. Feb 23rd Montgomery (Bible Fellowship Apostolic Church) 3. April 6th Bessemer (The Sanctuary) 4. May 11th Montgomery (Bible Fellowship Apostolic Church) 5. June 1st (Finals) Bessemer (The Sanctuary) You can register for 2019 tournaments online by clicking on the button below. If you have any questions about Bible Quizzing please contact
