Announcements for September 14, 2025

Lord’s Day Meeting – 9:30 AM

  • In-Person at the Bellevue meeting hall: 1835 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
  • Zoom

Announcements

  • There will be gospel trips in German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, and Austria) from October 5 through 19 for the purpose of contacting university students. For more information on joining a gospel trip go to tinyurl.com/Gospeltrips-2025. The registration deadline is September 15th 2025.
  • There will be a landscaping service opportunity on September 13th at 9:30 am. Please bring gloves and tools.
  • The church picnic (potluck) will be September 14 at the Wilburton Park.
    • All families need to bring already cooked/prepared food appropriate for a picnic with a side dish or desserts/drinks, etc.
    • Plates, napkins, plastic utensils, and paper cups will be provided 
    • Please bring your own foldable picnic chairs; we will bring folding tables from the meeting hall to set out the food.
    • If moderate rain is expected in the afternoon, we will make a decision Lord’s day morning whether to stay and eat together at the meeting hall. If we decide to stay at the meeting hall, an announcement will be made at the meeting and an email sent out.
  • The parents of the children will have a time to pray and fellowship on September 21 after the LD meeting.
  • The parents of the young people will have a time to pray and fellowship on September 28 after the LD meeting.
  • Please refer to the prayer meeting schedule below:
DATEPRAYER MEETING LOCATION (7:30 PM)Prayer Burdens, Zoom
September 16Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), at Jacob and Alethea Chiang, (425) 444-2734, 5435 161st Ct NE, Redmond, WA 98052
September 23Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)
September 30Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah (English), at Jeff and Sarah MacGillivray, (360) 220-3014, 2313 192nd Ave SE, Sammamish, WA 98075
October 7Bellevue Meeting Hall (all languages)

CLEANING SCHEDULE

TIME PERIODCLEANING GROUP (Zip Codes/Cities)
Clean on (or before) September 1498006
Clean on September 2198007
Clean on September 2898008
Clean on October 598052
USHERING SERVICE SCHEDULELORD’S TABLE SERVICE SCHEDULE
DateTeamDateTeam
September 14CSeptember 142
September 21DSeptember 213
September 28ASeptember 284
October 5BOctober 51

Schedule

Middle School / High School Retreat, October 17-19

Prayer Meeting Reading

Matt. 18:19 Again, truly I say to you that if two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens.

Matt. 18:20 For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst.

HARMONY OF WILL

Some may ask why God would want the earth to control heaven. If we want to understand this, we have to remember that our God is limited by time. Time refers to the section between the two eternities. There is an eternity past and an eternity future. Between these two eternities, there is time. Within this section called time, God is limited. He cannot work as freely as He wants to. This is a limitation God encountered in the creation of man. According to Genesis 2 , God gave man a free will when He created him. God has a will, and man has a will. Whenever man’s will is not one with God’s will, God is limited. In this room, there is a table, chair, floor, and ceiling. If a man comes in, he can do whatever he wants and not be restricted. The table, chair, floor, and ceiling will not be able to restrict him. God is a powerful God; He can do anything. If the earth was filled with spiritless material, God would be without restriction. But one day, God created man. The man He created was not like a piece of stone or wood; he was not a table or a chair, which could be placed here or there by God at will. The man that God created had a free will. Man could choose to obey God’s word, and he also could choose to disobey His word. God did not create a man who was obligated to obey Him. He created a man with a free will, one who could obey or disobey His word. After God created a man with a free will, His power was limited by this man. He could no longer act according to what He wanted. He had to ask whether man wanted the same thing and whether he was willing to do the same thing. God cannot treat man like a stone, a piece of wood, a table, or a chair, because man has a free will. Since the day God created man, man could choose to allow God’s authority to be carried out or to be blocked. This is why we say that within time, the period between the two eternities, God’s authority is limited by man.

God is willing to be limited in time because He wants to gain a harmonious will in the second eternity. He wants man’s free will to be harmonious with His will. This is a glory to God. If you put a book on the table, it remains on the table. If you put it on the shelf, it remains on the shelf. It is very obedient to you. But even though it is obedient, you are still not satisfied, because it does not have a free will; it is completely passive. God does not want the man He created to be like a book that can be shuffled around at will. Even though God wants man to be fully submissive to Him, He also gave man a free will. God’s intention is that man’s free will would choose to obey Him. This is a glory to God! In eternity future the free will of man will be joined to God’s eternal will. That will be the time for God’s eternal will to be fulfilled and for man’s free will to become harmonious with God’s eternal will. Every man has a free will. In eternity future man will still have a free will, but it will stand on God’s side. He will still have the ability to oppose God, but he will not oppose Him. Hallelujah! Even though man will have the freedom to oppose God, he will not oppose Him. He will do what God wants. This harmony of will is a glory to God!