NOVEMBER 16, 2021 VOL.2 NO.46

**DON’T GIVE THE ENEMY A SEAT AT YOUR TABLE // SAMPLE CHAPTER**
Click the above icon or here for a sample chapter of the book by Pastor Louie Giglio.

**GENERATIONAL SYNERGY // WEBINAR // THURSDAY, 5:30PM**
#GROWINGTOGETHER Webinar with Pastor Marquis Johns
Let's make the Adventist Church the best place for all generations to grow. . . together! You are invited, online or in-person, to this free webinar equipping leaders to reach, love, and empower their members of all generations. Thursday, November 18, 2021, 5:30PM [CST], hosted by Southwestern Union Conference.

Pastor Marquis Johns is Director of Community Services at the Southeastern California Conference, where he continues to hone a unique program he calls "Synetics" which focuses on "Generational Synergy." In a time when the world is waking up to the injustices plaguing our society, Marquis believes that organizations must truly harness every member’s unique energy and talent, regardless of their age, gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, functional background, or education. His ability to connect, network, and build lasting relationships with others has remained one of his greatest assets as a diverse and highly trained leader.
Click the above icon or here to access the online broadcast. Contact Pastor Justin Yang to attend in person.

**AYP CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER // NOVEMBER 18 // 7:30PM CST**
The newest element of Adventist Young Professionals is our Career Development Center which will support AYPers in their professional journey through workshops/mentorship, groups, and a job board for our members. We invite you to their launch event where you'll have the opportunity to meet the team and fellow AYPers as you learn more about the center and share ideas you have for us! Space is limited. Learn more and register today!
*An introduction to the center by AYP Founder Tim Kosaka:*
Next Thursday, November 18 (8:30 PM ET USA), we will officially launch our Career Development Center through a virtual meetup and I wanted to invite you to join us!
Our Career Center will be a hub for professional mentorship, monthly interactive, industry connection groups, and a social job board. This launch event will be a time for you to meet others seeking professional development, hear from the team about upcoming plans, and share your input to help shape the direction of the center!
If this sounds interesting to you, register here before space fills! If you already signed up, feel free to learn more about the center here! As usual, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Hope to see you next Thursday!

**ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS: LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE, ACT NOW!**
*Engage Conference*, November 19-21, you will not only enjoy inspiration and fellowship, but it also includes lunch on Sabbath, a T-shirt, access to workshops, Volleyball tournament and Bubble soccer tournament! **YG has a few spots still open!** If you would like to go, Contact Pastor Allan to let him know of your interest.

**YG MUSIC & MEDIA DEVOS // SATURDAYS • 9:30AM // ROOM 2**
*All YG musicians, artists, media, and production team members are invited to a devotional time Sabbath mornings at 9:30AM in Room* 2. Especially if you are not “on duty” this is a time to connect with GOD and each other. For all the details contact YG’s associate music director for the weekend.

**THE BATTLE FOR OUR MIND // YG CHURCH // SATURDAY 10:15AM CST**
Grateful, King of My Heart, Waiting Here For You, Make Room #WorshipSet #Nov20 10:15AM CST fb.com/ygchurch #NoSeat #ygchurch
The enemy is always on the prowl, seeking to fill our minds with destructive and harmful thoughts – fear, worry, insecurity, anxiety, and temptation to name a few. If you’ve ever thought – I’m not good enough, I’m not worthy enough, I’m not smart enough, then this series is for you.
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. --Psalm 23
Join *Younger Generation Church* in their Winter series, “No Seat at the Table,” Saturdays, 10:15AM CST, live.ygchurch.com #noseat #ygchurch

**ABBI MINETT**
Abbi Minett is a sophomore theology major at Southwestern Adventist University [SWAU]. As part of SWAU Spiritual Life and Development, the university’s campus ministry, Abbi leads as Sabbath School coordinator. Even before arriving at SWAU, she had an avid interest in religion and evangelism, serving as religious vice president in her academy and holding several evangelistic series while still a teenager. Abbi has a passion for mental health and seeks to incorporate pastoral counseling into her future career to provide spiritual and mental healing for communities where she will be pastoring.
Abbi also has a passion for languages and shared, *“I know sign language and am working toward fluency in Spanish as well. I’m taking Greek as one of my classes and I’ve fallen in love with it.”*

**PRAYER PEOPLE AND SPACES @YGCHURCH**
Sabbath morning, know that we have special spaces where you are invited to join us in prayer:
• At the end of YG worship, our prayer people will be in front of the stage, most willing to pray for individuals or groups.
• For those online, please place your prayers in our social media comments section during the live broadast so we may include them during our *Arlington LIFE Online* broadcast.
• Room 6 has been curated into a prayer room where you can spend quiet time in prayer or be prayed over in a more private setting. It will be open before and after @ygchurch
• Scroll to the bottom of the front page of http://ygchurch.com/ to submit prayer requests online.

**YG SHARK TANK COMING SOON!**
***Got an idea to #BeJesus #BeYG?*** Do you have a dream of reaching out to others for Christ? Is a creative, innovative, and relevant evangelistic project churning in your brain? Stay tuned because #YGSharkTank is coming soon! Click the above icon or here to get newly released details!

COMING ATTRACTIONS

**DONATE A TOY TO FULFILL A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS WISH**
The holidays are a time of year that so many of us look forward to. However, they are also a time when many people struggle to make ends meet. **REVIVE Christmas Wish** is an opportunity for our church to bless children with a toy for Christmas and take a small load off of a parent's heart. Pick up an Ornament Wish from our REVIVE Christmas Tree in the Foyer. Each ornament will have the gender and age of a child in need. Bring a New, Unwrapped Toy for that child and drop it off in the foyer the office during business hours! Let's Bless our Children this Season!

**A VERY YG FRIENDSMAS // DECEMBER 11, 7:00PM // UGYOUTH ROOM**
All Younger Generation Church family and friends are invited to ***A Very YG Friendsmas*** (Ugly Sweater Party)! Come in your ugliest sweater, ready for some holiday fun, Saturday, December 11th, 7-10PM, in the UGYOUTH Room [2nd Floor, Gayle Tucker Youth Annex], 4409 Pleasantview Drive, Arlington, TX 76017-1427.
There will be hot cocoa and lots of games! We will be playing White Elephant!! If you’d like to participate, bring a gift worth $10 max. For more details click the above icon or contact the Guerrero sisters!

PURSUE GOD

Last week’s worship led by Pastor Heidi Cruz Jackson, No Seat at the Table: The Tactics of the Enemy:

NO SEAT AT THE TABLE: THE TACTICS OF THE ENEMY
The enemy is crafty, seeking whom he may devour. He doesn’t just want your seat, he want to make you the main course.

1-2 Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wild. For forty wilderness days and nights he was tested by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when the time was up he was hungry.
3 The Devil, playing on his hunger, gave the first test: “Since you’re God’s Son, command this stone to turn into a loaf of bread.”
4 Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: “It takes more than bread to really live.”
5-7 For the second test he led him up and spread out all the kingdoms of the earth on display at once. Then the Devil said, “They’re yours in all their splendor to serve your pleasure. I’m in charge of them all and can turn them over to whomever I wish. Worship me and they’re yours, the whole works.”
8 Jesus refused, again backing his refusal with Deuteronomy: “Worship the Lord your God and only the Lord your God. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness.”
9-11 For the third test the Devil took him to Jerusalem and put him on top of the Temple. He said, “If you are God’s Son, jump. It’s written, isn’t it, that ‘he has placed you in the care of angels to protect you; they will catch you; you won’t so much as stub your toe on a stone’?”
12 “Yes,” said Jesus, “and it’s also written, ‘Don’t you dare tempt the Lord your God.’”
13 That completed the testing. The Devil retreated temporarily, lying in wait for another opportunity. --Luke 4:1-13 [Message]

Join Younger Generation Church in their Winter series, “No Seat at the Table,” Saturdays, 10:15AM CDT, fb.com/ygchurch #noseat #ygchurch

Our speaker is Pastor Heidi Cruz Jackson:
Heidi Cruz Jackson, RN, is the Community Outreach Pastor and Director of REVIVE Community Care at the Arlington Seventh-day Adventist Church in Arlington, Texas. She also serves as the Women’s Ministry Coordinator, and enjoys providing pastoral care to the community as well as to the women of her church.

Heidi started ministering to others through music before she could speak, when at the age of two, she hummed her first song at a local church. Originally from Puerto Rico, her family relocated to Texas when she was four years old, but she never stopped singing for Jesus. She has enjoyed a lifetime of leading others in worship through music and has been given the opportunity to record professionally with various artists.

Heidi is also a Registered Nurse and previously worked as a Cardiovascular Operating Room Nurse at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth Texas, before being called into pastoral ministry full time. She likes to say that she left the heart business for the business of the heart.

As a graduate of Southwestern Adventist University, Heidi met her future husband Jesse, when she joined a University music group of which he was also a part of. Together they have two boys, Jaylen and Jordan and enjoy singing together, meeting the needs of the community, and leading others to Christ, as a family.

**NO SEAT AT THE TABLE: MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE**
A great way to change your mind, thereby transforming your life, is committing Bible passages to memory. Click the above icon or here to download suggested Scriptures to memorize as part of our #NoSeat series.

**NO SEAT AT THE TABLE: QUIET TIME IN PRAYER**
Here is the PDF of *5 Steps Towards a Better Prayer Life*, a new resource from I Am Second that walks through a simple plan to intentionally improve your prayer life.

**NO SEAT AT THE TABLE: JOURNALING**
It is our desire to deepen our relationship with Jesus, so we are inviting everyone to join us in prayer, both learning more about it and practicing it. To aid in our journey, download the *IA2 Prayer Journal* by clicking the above icon or going to tiny.one/prayerjournal.

**AN INVITATION FROM AUTHOR LOUIE GIGLIO**
I want to encourage you to walk through my devotional, ***Putting an "X" Through Anxiety***.
Anxiety is a powerful giant that would like you to believe your life will never be normal again. But when we set our eyes on someone bigger and more powerful - Jesus, our giant slayer - we can find freedom.
If anxiety, worry, fear, or depression is the dread hanging over your life in these unprecedented days - I want to invite you to take a journey with me into the valley where these giants loom large - threatening, taunting, intimidating, incapacitating, and paralyzing us with threats of doom and demise.
I know this giant well, and have suffered from this valley in years past. Yet, I also know there is a way to overcome anxiety. I know firsthand that you can emerge on the other side of the depression and live to tell about someone who has already won the war.
If we're going to win, it is imperative for you and your circle to know that you are not standing helplessly alone in your valley. God Almighty is with us and He is fighting for us. In fact, He's already taken on every "goliath" and won!
Join me on this journey as we set our gaze on Jesus. We won't ignore that a behemoth called anxiety has its foot on our neck, but we will choose to lift our eyes and see someone bigger and more powerful - someone who loves us and plans to lead us back into the light. *Click the above icon or* *here* *to join* *Louie’s devotional*.

**WINNING THE WAR ON WORRY // 7-DAY ONLINE DEVOTIONAL**
Worry doesn’t have to be the defining narrative of your story. Through Jesus, you can win the war on worry and live free and at peace.
If you’re ready for that, begin a free 7-day journey that will help you understand why worry exists, and learn how to win the battle and wage war on worry.
Rooted in the truths of Pastor Louie Giglio’s newest book, *Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table*, these devotions will help cultivate a deep sense of peace and confidence in who God is and how He will continue leading you every step of the way. Click the above icon or here to sign up.

**FIND SCRIPTURAL RELIEF FROM WORRY AND STRESS**
One of my favorite inspirational authors, Max Lucado, is offering free an online Bible study based on his book, “*Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World*.” I’d highly recommend using this resource with your family, among your peers, or even as the start of a digital LIFEgroup.
We were having a great conversation with our YG leaders and I had to explain that the title “*Anxious for Nothing*” was not diminishing the real anxiety we are experiencing about real things, it was rather religious language derived from a Bible passage shared in the voice of the King James translation:
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” —Philippians 4:6-7 [NKJV]
What fascinating times we live in! Click here to sign up for the online Bible study or click the above icon.

EXPERIENCE COMMUNITY

**LOOKING FOR LIFEGROUP FACILITATORS**
Might you have interest in starting a LIFEgroup this holiday season? Or maybe your current group is looking for a new Bible study to begin. Whatever the case, we would love to equip you or your group to use “*Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table,*” for your study. Click the above icon or email Pastor Allan for more information.

**HOW TO START A SMALL GROUP? JUST DO IT!**
It’s great when small groups work. It is awesome when people enjoy one another’s company in a friendly environment, when they find the discussion appealing, when they grow spiritually, and when the leader feels adept at knitting together the experience in genuinely edifying ways for everyone. But it’s not easy to achieve this kind of interaction. In this vodcast, host Jose Cortes Jr. enjoys a compelling conversation with guest Vanessa Hairston. How to start a small group? Just do it!
Vanessa Hairston is a seminary student at Andrews University with an undergraduate degree in education from Southern Adventist University.
Connect with Jose Cortes Jr. through our website nadministerial.com or social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) @josehcortesjr
Click the above icon o watch this episode on the Multiply Vodcast or **click here** .

**FREE ACCESS TO RIGHTNOW MEDIA FOR ALL OUR MEMBERS!**
Looking for resources to start your own Life Group? As part of our church community, you have unlimited access to RightNow Media—the world’s largest streaming library of video Bible study resources (it’s been called the “Netflix of video Bible studies”). This extensive library has more than 20,000 videos from leaders like Francis Chan, Jennie Allen, Matt Chandler, Dr. Tony Evans, and many more. These Bible study videos can be used as part of a group study or for personal devotions, and many series include free discussion guides and handouts.

We believe that RightNow Media is a tool that can help you live out your faith in every area of your life—at home, at work, and in your community. In addition to series on books of the Bible, RightNow Media has videos for everyone in your family on a variety of topics like marriage, parenting, personal finances, mental health, and more. There’s even a library just for kids with over 2,000 safe, entertaining videos. RightNow Media has a free app that’s available on all major streaming devices so you and your family can access content anywhere, anytime. Click the above icon or click here to gain access to our digital library!

INSPIRE HOPE // SHARE GRACE

**WANTED: MENTORS & KIND HOSTS**
Every generation benefits from mentors. Our vibrant young adult ministry, @ygchurch, is looking for Christ-following adults willing to pour into our collegians, young professionals, and young marrieds. If you have interest click the above icon or here and send us your contact information.
*Here are more specifics of how awesome adults can impact the lives of our young adults:*
**• Roaming Hosts:** Regularly roam the church sanctuary before and after YG to meet new faces and engage in warm, welcoming and short conversations.
**• Single parenting Moms & Dads** could use a 2-3 hour break from time to time. Maybe even a manicure or pedicure, while someone takes care of their kids.
**• Make a call** to a young adult on behalf of YG just to say we're thinking of them, and if permitted pray for them.
• A **single teen mom** aspires to be a worship leader and musical artist and would benefit greatly from patrons supporting her dreams.
• Multiple new parents would benefit from "**Grandparents on Demand**," https://www.npr.org/2021/10/24/1048790487/an-indiana-town-is-wooing-new-residents-with-on-demand-grandparents
**• Host a meal** or two for young adults and others new to YG, https://arlingtonadventist.com/new-blog/2019/12/6/miyaygsummary
• A **senior SMU film student** is raising funds for a film based on his grandfather and would benefit from patrons sponsoring his film.
• Several of our young adults will be away from their family this holiday. An invitation to a **holiday meal** would be such a blessing.
• Many of our young adults have **mental health needs**, to which a compassionate adult would be so welcomed.
This list is comprised of specific young aduls who would benefit from your saying, "Yes," to acting on their need. If you have interest click the above icon or here and send us your contact information.

**REVIVE COMMUNITY CARE: WE ARE HERE TO HELP EACH OTHER**
Inspire those around you with the hope of grace by volunteering with Revive Community Care! Participate and refer those in need, revivecommunitycare.com

Hi Ethan Gueck here. I just wanted to follow up with you about our crowdfunding campaign for my senior thesis film *Boppie*. With only few days left to fundraise we have reached 20% of our goal. We have to reach 80% in order to get the green light and receive the funds. A donation of any size would be a huge help to the project! If you want to help us tell this story, click here to donate. Thanks for your consideration.

**TEXAS YOUNG ADULTS**
Click the above icon or here for all the latest updates from Texas Young Adult Ministry!

**YOUR GENEROSITY MAKES @YGCHURCH GROW, GLOW, & GO**
We invite you to support @ygchurch financially. As you bless YG, our young adults overflow that blessing into our community and into the world. Your tax-deductible donation helps YG grow, glow, and go. Thank you. Click the above icon or here for ways to give.
How does your support overflow into the world? Click here for @ygchurch stories of overflow.

GRATITUDE

**WELCOME AMELIA CHARLOTTE**
Congratulations to Jason and Kristina Busch on their new arrival!

**DANI QUAYE’S TESTIMONY: GOD IS GOOD**
We have passionate young adults #BeingJesus #BeingYG all over the world. Be inspired by South Korean missionary, Danielle Quaye, preaching in a local Seventh-day Adventist Church. Click the above icon or here to watch her testimony.
In our 17-year history, *Younger Generation Church* has seen God’s goodness poured out in the lives of young adults and their continued passion for Christ Jesus. Click here to glimpse a sample of that overflowing goodness.

Younger Generation Church is the vibrant young adult ministry of the Arlington Seventh-day Adventist Church.YG's mission is to deepen our devotion to Christ Jesus through:

• Pursuing INTIMACY with God
• Experiencing COMMUNITY with each other
• Inspiring those around us with the hope of GRACE