This week: Sabbath, June 12, 2010 – ALL NATIONS SABBATH. Pastor Kwesi Gyimah and the Columbus African SDA Choir.   Please join us for a fellowship luncheon this Sabbath following the 2nd service. As part of our ALL NATIONS SABBATH there will be a variety of ethnic cuisine for your taste bud's enjoyment! Please bring your favorite dish to share.   Join us Sabbath evening for a vespers concert featuring music from the Ghanaian SDA Church and the Columbus African SDA Choir at 6:00pm in the sanctuary. All are invited to attend!   Children's Sabbath school teachers and leaders – Please plan to join Doris Curley for a brief meeting this Sabbath in the garden room following 2nd service. She promises to have you in and out quickly.   Sunday, 8:00a.m., we need YOU!   Please consider helping with our yard spruce-up day. We'll begin at 8:00a.m. and end when we finish or at noon (which ever comes first!). We'll be doing some weeding and spreading mulch. Please bring your garden tools if you have them. If it's raining we'll try again the next week.   ** Breaking News **   Most of you are probably aware that last Sabbath was Loren's last as our senior pastor. After serving our congregation for 12 years he has accepted a new challenge offered him by the Ohio conference. He will be working on a variety of projects that the conference has wanted to tackle for years but were unable to. What does this mean for us? For the immediate future, it means that Pastor Bob will be partnering with Raj Attiken and Marwood Hallett to conduct the daily business of the church, i.e. visiting our sick, planning our worship services, responding to our member's needs, etc. You can expect to hear many interesting and inspirational guest speakers. You can be assured that the church office will be staffed to receive your calls and e-mails. And we promise that our leaders remain available to assist with any need that may arise. We encourage you to talk to one of our elders or church board members if you feel confused or unsure of what is happening. This has all happened quickly and there are bound to be questions and our leaders would be more than happy to talk to you. An item for your calendar. Plans are underway for an appreciation celebration for Loren & Carmen. Since they aren't moving away, we didn't feel the need to rush and throw something together last week, so we're taking our time and planning a nice event. The details are under construction but this Sabbath we will begin collecting donations towards an appreciation gift. Please place you donation in a tithe envelope marked "gift."   Coming in the weeks ahead:  YOU can save a life! Come to our 1st CPR session, Sunday, June 13 at 10:00a.m. Learn to use basic CPR skills and also how to use AED (automatic external defibrillator) which we will have available for emergencies in our church and school. Space is limited to 12 per session and the cost is $5.   You'll have yet another opportunity to save lives at the ARC Blood Drive, Sabbath July 3. Look for the blood-mobile out in the parking lot!   Health Food Cupboard June dates: times remain 2:00-4:00. Friday, June 11 & Sunday June 13 Friday, June 25 & Sunday June 27   Our longest running ministry, Street Beat is struggling to continue. They are short on help and those involved are unable to maintain this important work. This will be their last call for help. If you've been looking for a way to pay your blessings forward, this may be the ticket! This group meets every Sunday at 8:00a.m. in the kitchen and prepares a meal for one of Columbus' homeless shelters. If you feel called to participate, please call Kayleen at (419) 234-6093 or just show up Sunday at 8:00a.m.  Church member Jim Blue has begun a new business in direct sales/marketing. Please check out his website to see how you may become involved, www.iamjimblue.com.