Lakeland Seventh-day Adventist Church

Times of testing
Brings a blessing
That might come with a disguise.
It's arrival
As a trial
Can't be viewed with carnal eyes.

Look for meaning
In the weaning
And the pruning that takes place.
There'll be laughter
Soon thereafter
Cause you'll see your Savior's face.

He'll be smiling
And beguiling
You to lean upon His breast.
Then the testing
And the blessing
Will confirm that God knows best. :)

In order to give the members of our youth group more opportunity to spend time together, I have invited families from our church to host a youth potluck after church each week. The first week of each month we have a potluck lunch at the church. The second week of even-numbered months I plan to visit other churches, starting with Frostproof on June 13. This is the schedule so far:

Our youth meetings have begun! Last night Petronella shared personal experiences that taught her why we should not give up on God when He lets bad things happen to us. Tonight our topic was why our efforts to do good fail, and how God helps us. We had a small group of people who participated in the small group discussion period both nights.

I'm going to put the plans for each program of our evangelistic meetings on this page. This draft is not complete, but I wanted to provide something for you to leave comments on.

The conference printed up some invitation cards for us to use. They sent them by Greyhound bus Friday night. We need to give these to everyone we meet in Lakeland between the ages of 14 and 30. I'll be camping with some of our young people this week, so just look in the youth room under the table with the Bible studies for the invitation cards. They say "Connect" and give the time and location of our meetings

I have added an order of service. For each topic, I have noted which parts of the service are covered so far. Please add a comment if you can help.

Hi All ,
It's almost here!! Our big night:-)
Everyone please be at the Church School Friday evening by 5pm . If you can get there earlier let me know please. We have a lot of setting up to get done before Sabbath for the Pasta Dinner. It has to be ready to roll right after Sabbath(this Sabbath).

It's time for an update on our preparation for the Youth Ignited evangelistic series starting April 11. Of course, the only way to really know what's going on is to be an active participant, so I first want to thank our young people and sponsors who have come for our Friday night youth meetings and Saturday night preparation meetings. I especially want to thank those young people and their parents who have turned in applications to be members of the Youth Ignited team and share in the responsibility of preaching the gospel to young people in Lakeland.