Coatesville First Seventh Day Adventist

08/25/2023

The wisdom of this world is foolishness in gods eyes

07/22/2023

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04/01/2020

As our crowning moment during National Women's History Month, we are excited to announce that we have selected our 2020 Rebecca Lukens Award Recipient, Minnie McNeil! The principles of Simplicity, Peace and Equality are based on the Rules of Discipline espoused by The Society of Friends (Quakers). Rebecca Lukens employed these principles not as a theology, but applied them in a practical manner as a means of regulating her business and personal life. The Rebecca Lukens Award has been established by the Graystone Society in order to honor an individual who exemplify the qualities of Rebecca Lukens.

The influence of Minnie McNeil has invoked community-wide revitalization—not only in the Coatesville environment but in the lives of the people served.

Minnie McNeil was an integral contributor to opening and operating the W.C. Atkinson Memorial Community Service Center in Coatesville. The center included a men’s shelter and in partnership with Brandywine Hospital, a primary-care clinic. Minnie has worked to enhance neighborhood revitalization by providing community resources, referrals and housing for lower income individuals and families, shelter for homeless men in the greater Coatesville area, transitional housing, and has promoted a healthy lifestyle through education, preventive, supportive, and cultural services. Congratulations Minnie!

09/16/2019

70,000 people homeless! Your emergency gift today will be DOUBLED to help those affected by disasters, including Hurricane Dorian! Your $1=$2 match gift provides urgent immediate assistance and also supports rebuilding and healing in communities well into the future.

03/12/2018

Please help us spread the word! CYI is looking for Mediation volunteers. http://coatesvilleyouthinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CYI-Mediation-Volunteers-overview-final.pdf

10/24/2017

10/13/2017

Profound Good News in Romans

Romans tells some News so profoundly Good that we humans can hardly take it in. Even theologians stumble over it, like the builders stumbled over the great stone that was quarried to be the headstone of Solomon's Temple (Matt. 21:42; Psalm 118:22).

The problem is what Paul says: Christ became the "last" or Second Adam, reversing the condemnation that the first Adam brought on the entire human race. For "all men" He turned Adam's condemnation into justification, or a legal acquittal. "That News is too Good to be true," some objectors say.

Well, here's what Paul says:

"God's act of grace is out of all proportion to Adam's wrongdoing. For if the wrongdoing of that one man brought death upon so many [Greek, "all"], its effect is vastly exceeded by the grace of God and the gift that came to so many [Greek, "all"] by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ. And again, the gift of God is not to be compared in its effect with that one man's sin; for the judicial action, following on the one offence, resulted in a verdict of condemnation, but the act of grace ... resulted in a verdict of acquittal. ... As the result of one misdeed was condemnation for all people, so the result of one righteous act is acquittal and life for all" (5:15-18, The Revised English Bible). The King James Version says, "the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."

Someone asks, "We need 'justification by faith,' but isn't this 'justification by birth'?" No more than Adam's condemnation comes upon us all "by birth." Jesus took it all upon Himself, so that His title is, "Savior of the world" (John 4:42). The same "all [who] have sinned" are "being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:23, 24). This is why He sends His rain and sunshine on the just and the unjust alike. It's why we live.

One very wise writer says, "The sinner may resist this love, may refuse; ... but if he does not resist he will be drawn to Jesus; ... to the foot of the cross in repentance." The only reason why Esau was lost is that "for one morsel of food [he] sold his birthright" that God gave him (Heb. 12:16, 17). Jesus does not merely want to be your Savior; He is your Savior. Don't resist Him! --Robert J. Wieland

08/07/2017

It is with great sadness that I post this... Dorothy will be missed! http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailylocal/obituary.aspx?n=dorothy-j-whiteman&pid=186297966&fhid=28394

Read the Obituary and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. | Dorothy J. Whiteman, age 94, of Downingtown, PA, passed away on Friday, August 4, 2017 at the Simpson Meadows Retirement Community. Dorothy was born and raised in Downingtown, and was the daughter of