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Briefing Document: Spring Meadows Church Service (August 2, 2025)

Date of Service: August 2, 2025

I. Executive Summary

This briefing document summarizes the key themes, announcements, and spiritual messages from the August 2, 2025, Spring Meadows Church service. The service emphasized community, outreach, the enduring nature of God’s love and faithfulness, and the urgent call for believers to actively embody and share the “everlasting gospel” of Jesus Christ to a world in need. A significant portion of the service was dedicated to the dedication of a “rainbow baby,” highlighting themes of God’s healing and sustenance through loss.

II. Main Themes & Key Takeaways

1. Community & Fellowship: * Welcome and Inclusivity: The service opened with a warm welcome to both in-person and online attendees, emphasizing that Spring Meadows is a chosen place of worship among many options. The church aims to make worship better for everyone, offering water, pastoral conversations, or elder discussions. * Active Engagement: Encouragement for members to connect through various ministries and events, fostering a strong sense of belonging and mutual support. * Examples: * Potluck: Invitation to “stay in fellowship with each other” after the service. * Hugs, Kisses, and Handshakes: A tradition at Spring Meadows to encourage interaction and connection among attendees. * Support for Bereaved Families: Explicit request to “pray for Marsha his wife and his daughters and the family” after the passing of founding elder Brother John Rouch.

2. Outreach & Mission (Local & Global): * Serving the Community: A strong emphasis on practical outreach to meet community needs. * Food Pantry Distribution Ministry: Launching on the upcoming Thursday in partnership with Second Harvest, with “over 40 volunteers” already engaged. This initiative is a long-held vision finally “coming to fruition.” * Mindfitit Program: A Friday and Saturday program in September focusing on “mental health talks for teenagers and adults,” and VBS (creation health) for children. Members are encouraged to “pray for this program,” “invite people,” or “be volunteers.” * Global Missions: Highlighting the church’s commitment to spreading the gospel worldwide. * Adventist Frontier Missions (Cambodia): Eric Tirado and his wife Carly, members of Spring Meadows, shared an update on their missionary work among the unreached Muslim minority in Cambodia. They highlighted the power of social media for reaching “tens of thousands of people” and shared a powerful testimony of an indigenous woman who, despite persecution and loss, started the first Bible study group among her ethnic group. * Call to Action for Missions: Three ways to help the unreached were presented: “pray,” “give/donate/partner,” and “go” (“Lord here am I Lord send me”). * The Everlasting Gospel and its Global Reach: Pastor Brian’s sermon emphasized the command to preach the gospel “to every nation tribe language and people” (Revelation 14:6). He stated, “We are called to be missionaries both locally and globally.”

3. God’s Faithfulness & Love: * “Same God” Theme: Explored through song and testimony, affirming God’s unchanging nature and consistent support through generations. Lyrics included: “You are the same God you are the same God you answered prayers back then and you will answer now.” * Rainbow Baby Testimony (Josiah Ja’Mari): Marylou shared a deeply personal testimony about the birth of her son, Josiah, a “rainbow baby” after a previous miscarriage. The name Josiah means “God heals, God sustains,” and Jo’Mari combines Jonathan and Marylou’s names. This story powerfully illustrated God providing “beauty for ashes” (Isaiah 61:3) and sustaining them “physically mentally emotionally and spiritually” through loss. * God’s “Safety Features”: A children’s story illustration by Annie likened God’s commandments and guidance to “safety features” that a grandmother puts in place to protect a curious toddler. “God has done the same for us… not because he’s angry, not because he doesn’t want us to have fun, but because he loves us.” * Indestructible Gospel: Pastor Brian stressed that the gospel is “timeless,” “never expires,” and “indestructible” because “it is a person… Jesus.” It has “survived Eden’s wreckage,” “outlived Pharaoh’s army,” and “walked out of the tomb.”

4. The Nature of the Gospel & Christian Identity: * Jesus IS the Gospel: A central point of Pastor Brian’s sermon. He quoted, “Hanging upon the cross, Christ was the gospel.” The gospel is not merely “a thing or a concept,” but “a person,” Jesus himself, embodying “his life and death, his resurrection, his ascension and return.” * Love as the Essence of Gospel: “Love is the essence and the foundation of the gospel.” Unlike Satan’s methods of “coercion and force and deceit,” Jesus works through “communication… truth and… love.” * Destination: A Person, Not a Place: Emphasized that the ultimate destination is “about Jesus,” not just “the candy jar, the mansion, the gems and the jewels.” * Christian Identity (Seventh-day Adventist Context): Revelation 14 is presented as a “clear picture of our prophetic identity and calling.” The “end time group” described in Revelation 12:17 and 14:12 are “those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony [or faith] of Jesus Christ.” * Activated by the Holy Spirit: Believers are “redeemed by the gospel, activated by the spirit, [and] engaged in the world.” Gifts are given “to build up the church” and “proclaim the gospel.” * Living the Gospel: Not just preaching with words, but “showing the gospel,” “living the gospel.” The gospel is a “living force to change the life,” not a “lifeless theory.” * No Partiality: The gospel “crosses all lines.” If a believer’s “love isn’t” for “everyone,” then “we might need to be converted.” “God did not save us to protect our bubble but to burst it.”

III. Key Announcements & Upcoming Events

  • Children & Family Ministries Beach Day: Tomorrow (August 3rd) at Orman Beach. Sign up with Pastor Alex.
  • Joy Ministries (Just Older Youth) Boating Day: Next Sunday, August 10th, at Blue Springs. Register with Kathy Otati or Mary Curtis by tomorrow (August 3rd).
  • Young Adult Home Gatherings: Next Sabbath, August 9th. Contact Renee Fogg or check the newsletter for details.
  • Potluck: Today, following the service.
  • Mindfitit Program: September. Friday and Saturday program for mental health talks (teens/adults) and VBS (children). Prayer and volunteer sign-ups encouraged (flyers available).
  • Passing of Elder & Founder John Rauch: Memorial Service August 30th at 4 PM. Prayers requested for his wife Marsha and daughters.
  • Men’s Ministry Orlando Rally: Next weekend, August 8th (7:30 PM) and August 9th, at Spring Meadows. Goal: foster connections, spiritual growth, and inform men of events. Encourage bringing family/friends.
  • Food Pantry Distribution Ministry Launch: This coming Thursday (specific date not given, but likely August 7th given the sermon date). Volunteers meeting briefly after church.
  • Adventist Frontier Missions Magazine: Free monthly magazine available at Eric Tirado table for prayer support.

IV. Significant Quotes

  • “Happy Sabbath to everyone thank you for being here with us in this beautiful church and we’re glad that you can be here to worship the Lord with us we know that you have so many choices where you can go we know that you probably passed many churches before you get to Spring Meadows and we’re just so excited that you have chosen us as a place where you can come and worship every Sabbath.”
  • Marylou on Josiah: “Pastor Alex this is my rainbow baby and I’ve known what this term means because many of us who’ve had miscarriages understand the term.”
  • Marylou on God’s Grace: “The name we chose for him is a reminder of God’s grace because you see Josiah means God heals god sustains and Joari which is his middle name is a combination of Jonathan so Joe and Marylu Joari otherwise Josiah Jamari could be known as JJ i believe this was God’s way of exchanging our ashes for beauty.”
  • Isaiah 61:3 (Family Passage): “To console those who mourn in Zion to give them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise or the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified.”
  • Annie on God’s Love & Safety Features: “God has done the same for us and that is the good news of the gospel… God has placed some safety features not because he’s angry not because he doesn’t want us to have fun but because he loves us.”
  • Revelation 14:6: “Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.”
  • Ellen White on the Gospel: “Hanging upon the cross, Christ was the gospel.”
  • Ellen White on Love: “Love can never be forced but only love can produce love only the love of God can produce true love.”
  • Desire of Ages 22: “The plan of redemption was not supposed to say an afterthought a plan formulated after the fall of Adam. Listen to this this is profound it was a revelation of the mystery which had hath been kept in silence this is from the Bible through times what eternal the gospel is eternal.”
  • Pastor Brian on the Gospel’s Indestructibility: “It survived Eden’s wreckage it outlived Pharaoh’s army it outran Saul’s spear it walked out of the tomb that Sunday morning when Jesus arose even today Satan is trying to destroy it… but Jesus said ‘The gates of hell what’s he say cannot prevail it cannot contain it.'”
  • Pastor Brian on Christian Mission: “God did not save us to protect our bubble but to burst it if your gospel can’t sit across the table from someone who looks different talks different earns different votes different then it’s not the gospel even believes different we need Jesus.”
  • Pastor Brian’s closing statement: “We are here not as part of a denomination we are part of a deployment this is not a drill this is not a warm-up this is not a rehearsal this is the mission this is the movement this is the moment that God has called us and the message is Jesus crucified risen reigning and returning very very soon.”

V. Conclusion

The Spring Meadows church service on August 2, 2025, served as a powerful call to active faith, emphasizing the church’s role as a vibrant community dedicated to both local and global outreach. Through touching personal testimonies, practical announcements, and a theologically rich sermon, the core message resonated: Jesus Christ is the “everlasting gospel”—a timeless, indestructible, and loving force that transforms lives and calls believers to be his hands and feet in a world desperate for hope. The urgency of this mission, particularly in the “knife’s edge of eternity,” was a strong concluding theme.

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