22/05/2026
🌿 Happy Sabbath!
A warm and joyful Sabbath to you. We’re grateful you’ve chosen to worship with us at Traralgon SDA Church today. May the Lord surround you with His peace, renew your strength, and fill your heart with hope. Share today’s blessing by offering a smile or inviting someone to join in worship and fellowship.
ADVENT MISSION
This quarter we highlight the East‑Central African Division, a region that spans 12 countries: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Spotlight: Kenya
One of the countries featured this quarter is Kenya. The first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Wangari Muta Maathai, a Kenyan environmental, social, and political activist. She won the prize in 2004 for contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. She also founded the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 51 million trees throughout Kenya.
Almost 75 percent of all gold medal winners in long distance running come from Kenya. The current world record holder for the men's marathon, Kelvin Kiptum, as well as the men with the next five fastest times, are all Kenyan.
Mount Kenya is an extinct volcano and the second highest mountain in Africa at 5,199 m.
TODAY’S OFFERING
Local Church Budget: Supporting the ministries and weekly needs of our local church and community.
🌟THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Let not your heart be troubled, He said; "Ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And wither I go ye know, and the way ye know."
The object of Christ's departure was the opposite of what the disciples feared. It did not mean a final separation. He was going to prepare a place for them, that He might come again, and receive them unto Himself. While He was building mansions for them, they were to build characters after the divine similitude.
Ellen G. White, Heaven, pp 9, 10
There are not many ways to heaven. Each one may not choose his own way. Christ says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." Since the first gospel sermon was preached, when in Eden it was declared that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, Christ had been uplifted as the way, the truth, and the life. He was the way when Adam lived, when Abel presented to God the blood of the slain lamb, representing the blood of the Redeemer. Christ was the way by which patriarchs and prophets were saved. He is the way by which alone we can have access to God.
Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 663
CHURCH WORKING BEE — Sunday, 31 May
We will be holding a church working bee on Sunday, 31 May. Please add this to your calendar and plan to come along to help with cleaning, maintenance, and caring for our church grounds. Many hands make the work lighter.
Start time: 10:30am