VOLUME 5 ISSUE 46

Feature Announcement

Pastor José to Leave

I've got good news and bad news. Let’s do the bad news first. Jose Bourget, our executive pastor this past year and our associate chaplain for Andrews University the previous seven years, is leaving us. Over these eight years, he has made a major contribution to Pioneer’s life, serving as our second service worship team leader organizing the student leaders and musicians from Sabbath to Sabbath, as well as filling multiple roles as associate chaplain for Campus Ministries. And then this past year his new pastoral role as administrator for Renovate: Heart & House has been huge—as with Carey Carscallen and the Building Committee and Karen Nash, our construction manager, he has helped guide our roof replacement and sanctuary renovation to its successful completion. All associated with this vital project know we could not have done it without Pastor Jose.

Now for the good news. He is moving 100 yards away as the newly appointed Lead Chaplain for Campus Ministries (CM) at Andrews University. With the sudden and unexpected resignations of two of the campus chaplains this summer, the university has faced the challenge of finding a new lead chaplain who could maintain essential continuity and at the same build an expanding vision for the chaplain’s office and role with the students of this university. And so after much prayer, Pastor Jose has accepted the university’s invitation to lead the CM team of chaplains and student leaders beginning January 1, 2020.

Of course, we will miss him, but we will pray for his immediate success and seek to find every way as a congregation to join him in his mission to write a new spiritual-life chapter on this campus. For him and that mission, we claim God’s promise “to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).

Our Pioneer farewell for Pastor Jose and Christine will be on Sabbath, December 7, and will include a church-wide potluck dinner and program after second service. (Be watching for further details.)

Pastor Dwight

Feature Announcement

2020 Andrews University
Passion Play

The Andrews University Passion Play is returning to campus on April 11, 2020! Anyone interested in acting is encouraged to sign up on the website: passionplay.andrews.edu. Additionally, interested volunteers may contact the Drama Director, Katharina Burghardt for more information at katharina@andrews.edu. Please join us in telling Jesus' story this Easter!

Feature Announcement

RMES Multicultural Fair

Join Ruth Murdoch Elementary School on November 17, 12:00-3:00 PM in the RMES Cafetorium for authentic food and performances from all over the world—Europe, North America, South & Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. The food is inexpensive, authentic, and delicious. 

Feature Announcement

Feed the Need

Take part in the Feed the Need, PMC’s annual Thanksgiving food collection coordinated by the PMC Evergreen Pathfinder club. Please bring non-perishable food to church on Sabbath, November 23. We will also be passing and collecting out bags in portions of the community for community members who wish to contribute.

Feature Announcement

Soup for Students

We invite you to help us provide 30 pots of soup, cookies, and bread for our bi-annual Soup for Students event. We also need volunteers to help and clean up. Please let us know if you can help or provide a pot of soup by December 5, by calling 269.471.6565.

Feature Announcement

Satellite Thanksgiving Vespers

Everyone is invited to the youth-led Satellite Vespers on November 22 at 7:00 PM in the Pioneer Youth Chapel. We will focus on thankfulness and how it relates to our identity in Christ. There will be light refreshments after. See you there!

Feature Announcement

Our United Cry: Lake Union Prayer Conference

The purpose of this event is to see fulfilled in the year 2020 the following appeal made by Ellen White: "Could there be a convocation of all the churches on earth, the object of their united cry should be for the Holy Spirit. When we have that, Christ our sufficiency is ever present, we shall have every want supplied. We shall have the mind of Christ." (MR - 240, letter 114, 1894)

As church members from around the world prepare to assemble together in 2020 for the next General Conference session in Indianapolis the Lake Union is coordinating in that city a prayer conference on March 6 and 7, 2020, with the purpose to pray for an outpouring of His Holy Spirit to fall on our pastors, teachers, lay leaders, schools, hospitals, and the leadership of conferences, unions, and world divisions. 

Visit www.ourunitedcry.org to register for this event.