North Bronx SDA Church

Dear North Bronx Church Family, 

Greetings, 

For the past few months, we have been eagerly anticipating the official kickoff of the 2022 season of evangelism with the Jesus Wins prophecy week series. Today, we are just a few hours away. The series begins with Dr. Eddly B. Benoit of the Brooklyn SDA Church Friday March 4, 2022 @7:30pm at the North Bronx SDA Church and on all Social Media Platforms. We invite you to maximize this once in a lifetime opportunity to introduce someone to the person Jesus Christ, our Savior and soon coming King. By doing so we believe according to the Word that the Lord will “add to the church daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:47.

We want you to be prepared as you make plans to attend and participate in the meetings. Over the past few weeks, we have seen a steady relaxing of the COVID19 protocols. This week New York State officially ended its mask mandates for schools, business, and the Greater New York Conference has decided to allow each church to determine the best way forward. 

While we embrace these long-awaited changes and recognize the many possibilities they present, we at North Bronx believe that there is still the need to proceed with caution. To provide the safest possible environment we will maintain all screening and safety measures which include:

We are excited however to let you know that we have increased our capacity limits from 126 to 270 individuals.  We will continue to evaluate and apply the best procedures necessary. 

We invite you to join us for a dive into the prophetic Word of God, share the meeting links, invite a friend, and remember Jesus Wins.

Clavour R. Tucker

(Pastor)

• The building will be closed for in person worship on Sabbath, December 25, 2021.
• Only individuals who are program participants are allowed to enter the building.
• We will remain closed for in person worship until further notice.

1. While we continue to ask and encourage you to get tested, and vaccinated, we realize that there are significant challenges for individuals to get the required testing done, and due to few testing sites and unrealistic wait times. To assist with that, we have asked and have been selected by the Office of the Mayor to be a testing site. We will have more details on this in the next twenty four hours.
2. We will provide final information regarding in person worship services and what to expect upon our return.
3. We are currently reevaluating and increasing our health and safety protocols and procedures which will be in effect when in person worship services are returned. 
4. Let us remember to lift in prayer those affected as well as the many families seeking to give care.
5. We ask that you become familiar with our website where we will maintain communication, inspiring content and timely updates for you. You may find our community at northbronxsda.org and to reach us at any time, please feel free to email us at clerk@northbronxsda.org or secretary@northbronxsda.org. 

“that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).

“that we know all things work together for good of those who love the Lord, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

We trust that you are well and that you have been enjoying the blessings of God in your lives. What a privilege we have to be called children of God and to be called to serve Him during these critical times. It is not easy. We have all discovered that we have had to work twice as hard during the COVID crisis than before it. Yet, we have seen the tokens of God’s blessing upon His Church. We must now continue to hold dear the sacred trust that God has placed within our hands. I take heart in the quotation below from the book, Prophets and Kings.

The lesson is for all in positions of trust. When God opens the way for the accomplishment of a certain work and gives assurance of success, the chosen instrumentality must do all in his power to bring about the promised result. In proportion to the enthusiasm and perseverance with which the work is carried forward will be the success given. God can work miracles for His people only as they act their part with untiring energy. He calls for men of devotion to His work, men of moral courage, with ardent love for souls, and with a zeal that never flags. Such workers will find no task too arduous, no prospect too hopeless; they will labor on, undaunted, until apparent defeat is turned into glorious victory. Not even prison walls nor the martyr’s stake beyond, will cause them to swerve from their purpose of laboring together with God for the upbuilding of His kingdom.   {PK 263.1}

Church Opening:

The North Bronx SDA Church is committed to your health and safety. As such we are constantly monitoring the public health information from the City of New York, the State and the CDC as we go into week 2 of Phase 1 of our reopening plan that began August 1st. As we reopen the doors of the building, we do realize that we shall have to adjust to a new normal and so here are a few things to keep in mind.

• The church will be deep cleaned before and after each service
• Temperature checks will be taken at the door
• Social distancing and face coverings will be required at all times
• We are asking those who may be in a high-risk category due to age, or health condition to enjoy the service at home until the city allows for full capacity with fewer restrictions.

Sabbath School Old and New:

The online version of Sabbath School has continued to grow weekly as hundreds tune in to study the Word of God. But although we are using new ways of delivering the message, we celebrate that several of our Sabbath School classes are still meeting electronically for old fashion prayer, fellowship, and study.

Some classes have merged in order to further enrich the experience. Please check with your teacher for possible times when you can join your class for prayer. Also, as we enter Phase 1 of the reopening plan, our Sabbath School and Lesson Study will continue to be broadcasted online.

Children’s Ministry Story Call:

Prayer Line:

We have all been blessed by the nightly Prayer Line. Dynamic devotionals, and fervent prayer is offered to our Lord. Gather the family and join us in worship each night from 8-9 pm. Please don’t miss your blessing. Tel: 617-793-8520.

Bible Study:

Do you desire to know more about the Word of God? Do you wish to experience freedom and power in your life? Have you wondered what God is saying to us during the time of the pandemic? Join the weekly, Zoom Bible class, each Tuesday at 7pm. ZOOM.com

Meeting ID: 848 6949 1488           Password: 400657

Grief Support Ministry:

Joseph’s Storehouse Continues to Grow and Solicits Volunteers:

Pastor Dedrick Blue

Pastor Clavour Tucker

Pastor Melbourne Gregory

“The church is God’s appointed agency for the salvation of men. It was organized for service, and its mission is to carry the gospel to the world. From the beginning it has been God’s plan that through His church shall be rejected to the world His fullness and His sufficiency. The members of the church, those whom He has called out of darkness into His marvelous light, are to show forth His glory. The church is the repository of the riches of the grace of Christ; and through the church will eventually be made manifest, even to ‘the principalities and powers in heavenly places,’ the final and full display of the love of God.” Ephesians 3:10
The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 10–13.

• The church will be deep cleaned before and after each service
• Temperature checks will be taken at the door
• Social distancing and face coverings will be required at all times
• We are asking those who may be in a high-risk category due to age, or health condition to enjoy the service at home until the city allows for full capacity with fewer restrictions.

“The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place- that the work is on the verge of stupendous crisis”.
Prophets and Kings 537, c.1914

• Temperature checks will be taken at the door
• Social distancing and face coverings will be required at all times
• We are asking those who may be in a high-risk category due to age, or health condition to enjoy the service at home until the city allows for full capacity with fewer restrictions.

The world is not without a ruler. The program of coming events is in the hands of the Lord. The Majesty of heaven has the destiny of nations as well as the concerns of His church in His own charge.

-Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 753 (1889).

In the great closing work we shall meet with perplexities that we know not how to deal with, but let us not forget that the three great Powers of heaven are working, that a divine hand is on the wheel, and that God will bring His purposes to pass.

-Evangelism, p. 65 (1902).

In the annals of In the annals of human history, the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires, appear as if dependent on the will and prowess of man; the shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the Word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, above, behind, and through all the play and counterplay of human interest and power and passions, the agencies of the All-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will.

-Prophets and Kings, pp. 499, 500 (c. 1914).