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About First SDA Community Church

COME - FOLLOW - GO ON A JOURNEY WITH JESUS

Our Pastor · Senior Pastor

Pastor Rafael Canizales

Our Pastor is passionate about the Gospel and compassionate toward people.
He is energized by the potential of introducing everyone to Jesus We love the Bible. We love to study and talk about the stories in this Holy Book.
It is our instruction manual for living. We are a caring people.
We love visitors and seasoned members alike.
We belong to God.
We worship on the Sabbath of the Bible; the Seventh-Day Sabbath (Saturday).

We are a Safe Place to Grow in Christ. When people have problems, the Apostle Paul counsels us in the Bible to restore one another in the spirit of love and gentleness.

Join US at Church this coming Sabbath !!

Location

Visit us in Chesterland

We’d love you to come visit us this Sabbath.

9:30-10:45 am: Sabbath school * You can also access the weekly quarterly online: https://absg.adventist.org/next-quarter
9:45 am: Cradle Roll for ages infant through 5 years old
10:00-10:50 am: Junior Sabbath school classes will be held via Zoom. Please contact Theresa Moore at evesgreen@yahoo.com or (216) 502-7544 if you have children between the ages of 10-12. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2929137938
The meeting ID is 292 913 7938.

The Worship hour starts at 11:00am

7480 Mayfield Road
Chesterland, Ohio 44026

Phone: 440 729-3642

What To Expect

First SDA Community Church welcomes you. Our church is a unique, multi-cultural community enriched with diversity. We are a deeply loving, family friendly community of faith. Our focus centers on having a loving relationship with Jesus and one another. We are a Bible believing community and rely on His Word for guidance and enrichment in our daily lives. We hope you’ll visit us and perhaps you too will discover all that our Lord and Savior has prepared for you

Our history · First SDA Community Church

The First SDA Community Church in Chesterland, OH was organized during the latter half of the 1800’s on the corner of Hough Avenue and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County) and was then known as the Hough Avenue Church. As the city of Cleveland grew, so did the church. The church moved with this growth of Cleveland and as it moved eastward in physical locations to 105th and Euclid Avenue and then 187th and Euclid Avenue in 1953 in East Cleveland east of the downtown area. With this expansion, it also spawned off new church congregations; in the Cleveland suburbs; Lakewood, Ohio on the west-side of Cleveland, Brooklyn, Ohio on the southside to mention just two. In 1985, the church sold the church and property on 187th and Euclid Avenue with a vision of building even more eastward into the County of Geauga, where no Seventh Day Adventist church was located. This dream was fulfilled in 1986 with the completion of a new church building on a large property on Mayfield road in Chesterland, Ohio in Geauga County. We continue to build our spiritual gifts in this location with the continued vision of spreading the Gospel to all of Northeast Ohio

What we believe

Hope in Jesus

Vision Statement

We believe we can improve the quality of life, one person at a time, by sharing the life of Jesus and His love for people through our community friendship outreach.

Mission Statement

Seek Jesus, find Jesus, share Jesus by helping others do the same through community friendship outreach.

What Adventists Believe

We believe God is real. We believe the King James version of the Bible to be true. In a world where trust is waning, faith is abstract, and religion is more associated with the word cult than faith; Seventh-day Adventists believe hope in Jesus is a more than viable alternative. Our hope in is in Jesus as expressed in God’s Word.

Hope in Jesus brings balance, focus and simplification in an otherwise complex, sometimes confusing world.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that God is our Origin. God created this earth and mankind and He did it in only six days. He provided us the most fantastic surroundings of trees, flowers, vegetation, exotic animals and birds, blue skies and fresh air.

God’s crowning act of creation was on the sixth day when He formed mankind with His Own Hands from the dust of the earth. So that we would remember our Creator in worship and thanksgiving, God created a special day, the seventh day. He desired us to take time away from our dominion and upkeep of the earth, which He granted Adam and Eve. In doing so God too would spend that special day with us. He made it special by hallowing, blessing and sanctifying the day. It is the Seventh Day.

This humble yet fantastic story of our beginning eliminates much of the speculation associated with any other version of our beginning. It takes faith to believe all versions of our beginning so why not accept the most concise, simplest version found in scripture?

God desires relationship with us. To believe that one God created all things clearly simplifies our understanding and allows concentration on more answers than questions. There will always be questions on how and where we came from, it is why the Holy Bible is a book of faith. To believe God exists is just the beginning in a journey to know more about life, love, Jesus the revelation of salvation.

Life here is temporary. For those who believe, the Bible tells us that Jesus returns one day for those believers. Jesus calls them friends. Seventh-day Adventists believe in the Second Coming.

Since 1844 our faith and religion have been shared throughout the world, now in 237 countries with over 18 million members worldwide. We have 7500 schools and 173 hospitals. Part of our banner message is healthful living. We believe fellowship is the key to unity, strength, longevity and community. A feeling of belonging leads to a desire to believe, which impacts a decision for Jesus in our lives.

“Seventh-day Adventists beliefs are meant to permeate your life. Growing out of scriptures that paint a compelling portrait of God, you are invited to explore, experience and know the One who desires to make us whole.”
Adventist Official Website: www.adventist.org

Come, follow, go…on a journey with Jesus.

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