MENTONE BULLETIN
November 8, 2025
Church Service 8:30 am* 11:00 am**
Welcome and Announcements: Elder Bevan Geslani
Introit+: Organ
Invocation: Pastor Rodney Bowes
Songs of Praise:
Opening Hymn:
Worship in Giving (Annual Sacrifice for Global Missions): Bevan Geslani
Offertory: Jesus Loves Me by Kinder Choir
Lambs Offering: Bevan Geslani
Children's Story: Merrill King
Scripture Reading (Jeremiah 2:12-13):
Jayne Nelson*
Merrill King**
Prayer Song+ (#668 O Thou Who Hearest): Congregation
Worship in Prayer: David Nelson* Merrill King
Worship in Song: Oh, Be Careful by Kinder Choir
Sermon: Pleasing Sacrifices by Pastor Rodney Bowes
Closing Hymn: #572 Give of your Best to the Master
Benediction: Pastor Rodney Bowes
Postlude: Organ
+ Please Kneel
Hymns have a link for words from the Adventist Hymnal
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASSES
Children's Classes
Cradle Roll (Ages 0-early 2)
New Beginner's (Ages 2-3)
Kindergarten (Ages 4-6)
Primary (Ages 7-9)
Juniors (Ages 10-12)
Earliteens (Ages 13-15)
Youth
Youth (Ages 15+) in the Pathfinder Room
Adult Classes
Young Adults (Ages 18-35, Co-op Room)
Adult Lesson Study (Sanctuary Front)
Adult Lesson Study (Room behind the piano)
Spirit of Prophecy class now studying "The Desire of Ages" (Fellowship Hall)
New Believer's Class ("Upper Room")
Cradle Roll (Ages 0-early 2)
New Beginner's (Ages 2-3)
Kindergarten (Ages 4-6)
Primary (Ages 7-9)
Juniors (Ages 10-12)
Earliteens (Ages 13-15)
Youth
Youth (Ages 15+) in the Pathfinder Room
Adult Classes
Young Adults (Ages 18-35, Co-op Room)
Adult Lesson Study (Sanctuary Front)
Adult Lesson Study (Room behind the piano)
Spirit of Prophecy class now studying "The Desire of Ages" (Fellowship Hall)
New Believer's Class ("Upper Room")
ANNOUNCEMENT
Thank you for choosing to worship with us today. If we can help you in anyway, please let us know by contacting one of our pastors, greeters, elders,
deacons, or deaconesses, or by our church app/website.
Second Reading – Irfan Rasman for Church Website Webmaster.
TODAY we are collecting the Annual Sacrifice Offering for Global Mission!
If you’ve given something up for a week, or even if you haven’t and still wantto help, please mark your tithe envelope “Annual Sacrifice Offering” and give
generously to help church planters start new groups of believers in the10/40 Window, urban areas, and post-Christian communities.
Anyone interested in the Vietnam Mission Trip, Feb.23 – March 6, 2026, is
invited to an information session following the second service in the
Fellowship Hall.
Please pray for Joel Rubert and his family. Joel’s wife Frances had a stroke
on Wednesday.
Wayne Blowers fell at home and fractured some ribs and punctured a lung,
please keep him in your prayers for healing and no complications.
Birthday Blessings!
November 8th – Daniel Hernandez 10th – Darren Medrano, AndrewTorres
deacons, or deaconesses, or by our church app/website.
Second Reading – Irfan Rasman for Church Website Webmaster.
TODAY we are collecting the Annual Sacrifice Offering for Global Mission!
If you’ve given something up for a week, or even if you haven’t and still wantto help, please mark your tithe envelope “Annual Sacrifice Offering” and give
generously to help church planters start new groups of believers in the10/40 Window, urban areas, and post-Christian communities.
Anyone interested in the Vietnam Mission Trip, Feb.23 – March 6, 2026, is
invited to an information session following the second service in the
Fellowship Hall.
Please pray for Joel Rubert and his family. Joel’s wife Frances had a stroke
on Wednesday.
Wayne Blowers fell at home and fractured some ribs and punctured a lung,
please keep him in your prayers for healing and no complications.
Birthday Blessings!
November 8th – Daniel Hernandez 10th – Darren Medrano, AndrewTorres
11th – Rachel Jegede 12th – Diana Hancock, Ryan Hernandez 13th – Thomas
Chung 15th – Bonnie White –
Mentone Church Life
Praise God for His protection over our missionaries in Cuba during
Hurricane Melissa. The World Youth Group is organizing a major relief effort
to bring food and needed supplies to families hit hardest by the storm. If
you would like to contribute, please donate to the Cuba mission fund.
Please lift Pastor Dana and Lorrie up in your prayers, as her health has
declined and care has become more challenging.
Please continue to keep Carole Sue Bowes (Pastor Rodney’s mom) in your
prayers as her health is delicate. She is now out of ICU. Praise the Lord!
The Freed's Family baby shower is tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 9 at 12 noon in
the Fellowship Hall.
Next weekend we will be blessed with Dwayne Lemon, Friday 7 pm “The
Soon Coming Crisis” and Sabbath both services “If the Foundation Be
Destroyed”. Following the Fellowship Meal, we will have an Q & A session at
2:30 pm in the Sanctuary.
Hydrotherapy class on Sunday, Nov. 16 from 3-5 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
Gary Strunk will be presenting and demonstrating some practical
natural methods for using ice therapy for tendinitis, water treatments for
indigestion and how/when to use hot and cold-water treatments. This is great information for us and to share with others.
Silvia Basarte’s Memorial will be here at church on Sunday, Nov. 23 at 11
am in the sanctuary. The viewing, service, and burial will be on Tuesday,
Nov. 25, from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm at Montecito Memorial Park in Colton.
Save the Date! “Wise Holiday Feasting: Inspiring Health Through Truth
and Temperance” Class presented by Sam Benavides, Sunday, December
17 from 3-5 pm in the Fellowship Hall.
See what is happening next week at www.mentonechurch.org/events and
in the monthly calendar on the bulletin board.
Please help us find potential Christmas Offering project options for the finance committee to evaluate and vote for and recommend to the board. .
Financial Information as of October 2025:
Church Budget $270,165.20 (Goal to date: $282,179.66).
Annual Goal: $341,240.52
Building Fund: $88,030.72.
Financial Information as of October 2025:
Church Budget $270,165.20 (Goal to date: $282,179.66).
Annual Goal: $341,240.52
Building Fund: $88,030.72.
