Greater Little Zion Baptist Church

10185 Zion Drive

Fairfax, VA 22032 Phone: 703-764-9111 Fax: 703-764-9162

Office Hours: 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Email: admin@glzbc.org Website: www.glzbc.org

Baptism Sunday Sunday, May 7, 2017

2017 Theme: "The Year of Self-Worth" Proverbs 23:7a

Church Vision: The vision of GLZBC is to reach the unsaved with the saving message of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:19-20

Church Mission: The mission of GLZBC is to lead everyone to a

full life of development in Christ. Luke 4:18-19

Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr., Pastor E-mail: James.T.Murphy@glzbc.org

Worship on the Lord’s Day

7:45 a.m. Service

Today’s Music Leader Musician……………………..…………………...… Min. Keith Exum Minister of Music .…...……………………… Bro. Robert Fairchild Call to Worship ……………….………………………………………………....

Invocation ..……………………......……...….………..…………... Minister

Musical Selection (2) ………………….…...........… Zion Inspirational Choir

The Spoken Word/Sermon …………......... Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr.

Sermon Title: “There's Nothing Wrong with Living Single” Genesis 2:7; 21-22

Invitation to Salvation ………….………….. Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr.

Worship of Giving/Prayer …………..……...… Board of Directors/Deacons

(Bring Prayer Request As Well With Offering)

Welcoming of Visitors ….…...……………………………. Greeter’s Ministry

Announcements …………………………………………………………………

Benediction …………………..………………Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr.

Please do not enter or leave the Sanctuary during this time.

This is my Bible. I am what It says I am. I have what It says I have. I can do what It says I can do. Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess that my mind is alert, my heart is receptive and I will never be the same.

In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Sermon Notes Message Notes 7:45 a.m. Scripture (s): Sermon Text:

Worship on the Lord’s Day

10:45 a.m. Service

Today’s Music Leader Musician ..……..………….………..……………… Min. Keith Exum Minister of Music ………………...………… Bro. Robert Fairchild Praise and Worship ………………..…..….………….…………………...…… Call to Worship ……………………………...………………………………….. Congregational Hymn #505……........................ Somebody Prayed for Me Worshippers may enter

Invocation ..…………………............................………..…...…… Minister Musical Selection ……………......…….…..….…… Zion Inspirational Choir Welcoming of Visitors ….……………….……….….....…. Greeter’s Ministry Announcements …………………………….………………………………..… Worship of Giving/ Prayer ………………….... Board of Directors/Deacons Congregational Prayer Time ……………………………………………… Musical Selection ……………......….……...…...…. Zion Inspirational Choir The Spoken Word/Sermon ……................. Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr.

Sermon Title: “There's Nothing Wrong with Living Single” Genesis 2:7; 21-22

Invitation to Salvation

Benediction ……………………….……….. Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr.

Please do not enter or leave the Sanctuary during this time

This is my Bible. I am what It says I am. I have what It says I have. I can do what It says I can do. Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess that my mind is alert, my heart is receptive and I will never be the same.

In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Sermon Notes Message Notes 10:45 a.m. Scripture (s): Sermon Text:

Bro. Richard Boffman – Health & Healing Concerns (Sis. Jerdleen Boffman’s husband) Sis. M. Evelyn Briggs – Health & Healing Concerns Dr. Chuckie Chandler (Rev. Estelle Chandler’s son) Sis. Barbara Collins – Health & Healing Concerns Sis. Annie & Bro. Ted Davis – Health & Healing Concerns Sis. Henrietta Davis, fighting cancer of the kidney (Sis. Denise Snowden’s first cousin) Sis. Mary Evans – Health & Healing Concerns (Sis. Karen Talley’s mother) Sis. Janice Tate-Fawver, CA – Health & Healing Concerns (Sis. Joyce Moseley’s sister) Sis. Annette Fletcher Sis. Bailey Jon Puller-Gamage (Sis. Jocelyn Puller’s daughter and Sis. Harriet Puller’s Granddaughter) Sis. Rosalind Gardner (Sis. Jacqueline White’s cousin) Sis. Ruth Garrett Sis. Yetta Howard - Health & Healing (Sis. Yedetta Felton’s sister) Sis. Joan Marie Hulett – Health & Healing (Sis. Joyce Moseley’s co-worker) Sis. Kiara Ingram, NC – Health & Healing Concerns (Sis. Cyndel Hill’s friend) Bro. Roy Miller (Sis. Jannie Eaddy’s cousin) Bro. Joseph Oliver – Health & Sickness Concerns (Sis. Ruth Garrett’s brother) Sis. Ruby Parkey – Health & Sickness Concerns (Sis. Brenda Perkins-Johnson's aunt) Sis. Tyra Parkey – Health & Sickness Concerns (Sis. Brenda Perkins-Johnson's cousin) Bro. James Self– Health & Healing Concerns Sis. Mary Lee Spates, Lake City, SC (Sis. Denise Snowden’s mother) Bro. Samuel Sullivan – Health & Sickness Concerns (Sis. Doris Dunkley’s father) Bro. Bernardo Snowden – Health Concerns (Sis. Denise Snowden’s brother-in-Law) Bro. Joel Anthony Tate, Northern, CA (Sis. Joyce Moseley's brother) Bro. Joshua Thomas – Health & Sickness Concerns (Sis. Crystal Thomas’ father) Sis. Jennifer Tibbs, Alexandria Hospital – Health & Healing Concerns Bro. Tommy Williams (Sis. Annette Fletcher’s brother) Sis. Anna Young, TN - – Health & Healing Concerns (Sis. Cynthia Hill & Sis. Elanese Pitt’s Aunt) Mourning The Loss of a Loved One… Sis. Terri Henderson (Death of her brother-in-law) Sis. Ruby Rollins Harney (Death of her brother-in-law) Bro. Hosea Pickett & Bro. Ed James (Death of their cousin)

The book of Nahum quiz

1. Nahum : his name means?

A. God believes B. God consoles C. God trust D. God loves

2. He came from?

A. Elkosh B. Tekoa C. Judah D. Israel

3. Where did he deliver his prophecy?

A. Assyria B. Galilee C. Judah D. Bethlehem

4. What was his prophecy?

A. Bring back faith to the Ninevites B. Rebuild the temple C. Day of the Lord D. Downfall of Assyria and Nineveh

5. According to his prophecy, the fortresses of Nineveh would be like ______?

A. Bamboo trees B. Fig trees C. Coconut trees D. Nymph trees

6. When was the book written?

A. After the fall of Israel B. Before the fall of Israel C. Jesus's Birth D. After the fall of Nineveh

7. Who was the king during the time of Nahum’s prophecy?

A. King Amaziah B. King David C. King Solomon D. King Josiah

8. It is the 11th of the prophetic books?

A. Micah B. Obadiah C. Nahum D. Hosea

9. Were the cities destroyed?

A. Yes B. No C. Maybe D. I don't know

10. How would God destroy them?

A. Burned to death B. Killed in battle C. Take away everything D. All of the above

https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizreport.php?title=book-nahum&sid=136156330

Unit 3: God’s Pervasive “God’s Sustaining Love”

Daily Bible Readings of this week:

Monday Psalm 139:1-12 Tuesday Psalm 29:1-9 Wednesday Isaiah 54:1-10 Thursday Nahum 1:1-8 Friday Jonah 1:1-5 Saturday Jonah 1:6-12

Sunday Jonah 1:7-17

Esther Afua Ocloo (born Esther Afua Nkulenu, 18 April 1919 – 8 February 2002) was a Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending, a program of making small loans in order to stimulate businesses.

She was one of the founders of Women's World Banking in 1976, with Michaela Walsh and Ela Bhatt. Ocloo served as its

first chair of trustees. She received the 1990 African Prize for Leadership and numerous other honours for her work on behalf of economic empowerment of women and families. She was a member of Unity Worldwide Ministries.

Early life and education: Afua Nkulenu was born in the Volta Region to George Nkulenu, a blacksmith, and his wife Georgina, a potter and farmer, both of the Ewe people. Sent by her grandmother to a Presbyterian primary school, the girl advanced to a coeducational boarding school at Peki Blengo. Because of poverty, she traveled weekly from home to the school, taking food supplies each week which she cooked for herself to avoid expenses. When she won a scholarship to Achimota School, her aunt provided her with money to travel to the school. She studied there from 1936 to 1941, when she obtained the Cambridge School Certificate.

Nkulenu was the first person to start a formal food processing business in the Gold Coast; she built up a business supplying marmalade and orange juice to Achimota School and the RWAFF. After getting her business established, she was sponsored by Achimota College to visit and study in England from 1949 to 1951. She was the first person of African ancestry to obtain a cooking diploma from the Good Housekeeping Institute in London and to take the post-graduate Food Preservation Course at Long Ashton Research Station, Department of Horticulture, Bristol University. She returned to Ghana. She had also married and started a family.

Business activity:

Ocloo worked at expanding her business. She traveled to England in 1956 to develop recipes for commercial canning. To overcome prejudice in Ghana against locally produced goods, she formed a manufacturers' association and helped organize the first "Made-in-Ghana" goods exhibition in 1958. Encouraged by President Kwame Nkrumah, she was elected as the first President of what became the Federation of Ghana Industries, serving from 1959 to 1961. In 1964 Ocloo was the first Ghanaian woman to be appointed as Executive Chairman of the National Food and Nutrition Board of Ghana. In the mid-1960s she expanded her activities into the tie and dye textile business.

From the 1970s onwards Ocloo worked at a national and international level in the economic empowerment of women. She was appointed as an adviser to the Council of Women and Development from 1976 to 1986, a member of Ghana's national Economic Advisory Committee from 1978 to 1979, and a member of the Council of State in the Third Republic of Ghana from 1979 to 1981. She was an adviser to the First World Conference on Women in Mexico in 1975. Following that, she promoted the availability of credit to women, with small loans known as micro-credit, to stimulate their ability to found businesses. Making such

loans to women was found to strengthen their ability to provide economically for their children and develop their families. Ocloo was a founding member and the first chairman of the Board of Directors of Women's World Banking from 1979 to 1985.

Religious activities:

Ocloo was a founding member of religious groups such as the Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.) Church in Madina (a suburb of Accra) and the Unity Group of Practical Christianity (Ghana) associated with Unity Worldwide Ministries. She also assisted in forming a women’s group, known as Bible Class, in the E.P. Church, with the aim of studying the Bible and home management. She served on the synod committee of the E.P. Church for 12 years.

Family: Esther married Stephen Ocloo and they had four children together: daughter Vincentia Canacco, and three sons, Vincent Malm, Christian Biassey and Steven Ocloo Jr.

Death: Ocloo died in Accra, Ghana after she developed pneumonia in February 2002. She received a state funeral in Accra, and was buried at her hometown, Peki Dzake.

Honours:

Honoured by Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana for meritorious Service to Church –1982.

Honoured by all women association of Ghana (AWAG) for meritous service (1985).

Recognized and certified by the editorials board of Biographical publication, England, as one of the Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century.

As co-winner with Olusegun Obasanjo of the African leadership prize for sustainable end of hunger by the Hunger Project, New York, 1990, she was the first African woman to be awarded this prize.

Honoured by International Federation of Business and Professional Women –1991

National Arts and Culture Award (by Ghana National Commission On Culture ,1992).

The first woman laureate of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize, Switzerland, 1993.

Honoured by Junior Achievement (Global Leadership Award, 1995)

Honoured at First Global Women Investment Exhibition, by Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs (GAWE)–July 1996.

Honoured by Peki Union for contribution and dedication to the welfare of her hometown Peki, Ghana.

Honoured by Women World Banking Ghana in May 1995.

Honoured by Women World Banking International in Beijing, September 1995. Honoured by Beijing Women of Rochester, New York ASA as one of '100 Heroines for Cause of Women in the 20th Century,' October 1998.

Ghana’s Millennium Excellence Awards for Women and Gender Balance Development- 1999.

Honoured with a Google Doodle on 18 April 2017.

Thank You! To Pastor Murphy, First Lady Murphy, members and friends of Greater Little Zion Baptist Church: We want to thank all of you for making our Women’s Day a huge success. We especially want to thank Brother Al Woods and the Men of Zion for serving the ladies on our special day. Special thanks to our Worship Leader, Sister Raine Bradley, and to Sisters Christian Davis, LaTasha Murphy and the Women’s Choir for blessing us with your beautiful voices. Thanks to the Beautification Ministry and finally to all of the members of the Women’s Ministry Team who prepared food and other services. Always remember that Jesus truly is “the Joy of our Salvation.”

Rev. Estelle Chandler, Chair Sis. Dottie Henson, Co-Chair

Renovate-a-Pew Project

The pew renovation project is now completed-praise God! You can now view the name plates on all pews. See the insert in the bulletin for the pew layout along with the list of

names for each pew. A big thanks to all of the pew contributors who made this project a grand success. Also, many thanks to Trustees OZ Fuller and Harrison “Nick” Nixon for

installing the nameplates on the pews. Sister Joyce Moseley

Pew Renovation Project Lead

Men’s Bible Study Men’s Bible study will resume on Thursday, May 11, 2017

POC: Rev. Dr. James T. Murphy, Jr.

Chess Club Join the Chess Club for food, fun & fellowship on Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM in the

Fellowship Hall POC: Bro. Alvin Hayes & Sis. Lakita Jones

Graduates’ Recognition Sunday, June 11, 2017

Deadline to Submit Name of Graduate with Profile: Sunday, May 21, 2017 Forms are in the vestibule and on the church’s website.

White Form for High School Graduates and Green Form for College Graduates POC: Sister Rosalind Blunt

(703) 978-2077 or rosalindblunt@aol.com

CSTM Presents Healthy Habits For the Month of May:

Start a new workout program. Avoid a weight-loss or fitness plateau by varying your workout

regimen. It takes your body between 3 and 12 weeks to get used to new exercise, and the fitter you are, the shorter that time frame. You

want to experience a little soreness from your workouts, so as soon as you stop feeling that, it’s time to switch things up.

Eat Breakfast Every Day! This month is when you commit to eating healthy; eat a balanced breakfast every day. Eating regularly is a great way to boost your

metabolism.

The Cancer Support Team Ministry recognizes the following Cancer Awareness for the month of May:

Brain Cancer Awareness Month (Grey) Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month (Black)

Bladder Cancer Awareness Month (Marigold/Blue/Purple)

http://www.choosehope.com/calendar-of-cancer-awareness-months

Sunday

7:45 and 10:45 a.m. Worship Service - Each one bring one

7:45 and 10:45 a.m. Children’s Church 1st and 3rd Sunday (OS)

7:45 and 10:45 a.m. Youth Church 1st and 3rd Sunday (FH)

8:30 a.m. Sunday School 5th Sunday - Pastor Murphy is the Adult Class facilitator

9:45 –10:30 a.m. Sunday School - POC: Bro. Jeffery Allen, Sr., Superintendent – March– May 2017, Theme: “God Loves Us ”

9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Morning Prayer period – Main Sanctuary POC: Prayer Ministry

9:45 a.m. Worship Service 5th Sunday

1:00 p.m. Pastor’s Aide Ministry Meeting 1st Sunday (FH) - POC: Bro. James McCoy

1:00 p.m. Family Ministry – Family Prayer Day, 3rd Sunday upstairs in the prayer room, POCs: Deacon Anthony & Deacon Terri Bazemore

1:00 p.m. Game of Chess, Food, Fun and Fellowship, immediately after the 11:00 a.m.

service, (please see website calendar for dates) in the Fellowship Hall. POC: Bro. Al Hayes and Sis. LaKita Jones

1:00 p.m. Rock The Rim, immediately after the 11:00 a.m. service, every 4th

Sunday at the

Pinn Center. POC: Deacon William Windley and Bro. Mervin Fanfon

1:30 p.m. Christian Education Ministry Meeting 1st Sunday – POC: Sis. La Kita Jones

1:30 p.m. Cancer Support Team Meeting (CR) 2nd Sunday – POC: Sis. Christine Davis

Monday

7:00 p.m. Church Choir Rehearsal

Tuesday

6:30 p.m. Academic Enrichment (Tutoring) POC: Deacon Dr. Al Moseley

7:00 p.m. Zion Inspirational Choir Rehearsal (except the Tuesday after the 1st Sunday)

7:00 p.m. Music and Performing Arts Council meeting Tuesday before the 1st Sunday

7:00 p.m. Board of Directors’ Meeting 2nd Tuesday (CR) – POC: Sis. Dolores Claytor

7:00 p.m. Deacons’ Training 2nd Tuesday

7:30 p.m. Hospitality Ministry Meeting 4th Tuesday (Kitchen) – POC: Sis. Christine Davis

Wednesday

6:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting - A one-hour group session led by the Deacon Ministry. Come and pray with us. Location: Main Sanctuary, All are welcome

7:30-8:30 p.m. Bible Study (Fellowship Hall) All are welcome

Thursday

6:00–8:00 p.m. GLZ Praise Dancers Ministry Rehearsal (OS) POC: BOD Dolores Claytor

6:30 p.m. Youth Ministry Meeting 1st and 2nd Thursday (FH)

7:00 p.m. Children’s Ministry Meeting 1st Thursday

7:00 a.m. Church Choir Rehearsal Thursday before the 3rd Sunday

7:00-8:00 p.m. Junior Ushers’ Meeting 4th Thursday (OS)

7:30 p.m. Missionary Ministry Meeting 3rd Thursday (CR)

7:30 p.m. Youthful Praise of Zion Choir Rehearsal (MS) Except after the 2nd Sunday

7:30 p.m. Women of Zion Choir Rehearsals Thursdays before the 5th Sunday

8:30 p.m. Young Adult Praise Team Rehearsal (MS) POC: Sis. Kiara Mack

Friday

7:00 p.m. Baptism Orientation 1st Friday (CR) – POC: Rev. Estelle Chandler

7:00 p.m. Zion Inspirational Choir Rehearsal Friday before the 1st Sunday

Saturday 7-9 a.m. Men’s Ministry Prayer Breakfast 1st Saturday (FH) - POC: Bro. Al Woods

8:00 a.m. Male Chorus Rehearsal (MS)

9:30–11:00 a.m. Women’s Bible Study 2nd and 4th Saturdays (FH) - POC: Deacon Geraldine Woods

10:00 a.m. - 12 noon Women’s Ministry Meeting 3rd Saturday (FH) – POC: Rev. Estelle

Chandler (Nov & Dec Meeting in the Old Sanctuary)

10:00 a.m. Beautification Ministry Meeting 3rd Saturdays (CR) – POC: Sis. Annie McLaurin

10:00 a.m. Deacons Meeting 3rd Saturday (OS) Special on-call teleconference held periodically. POC: Deacon Anthony Bazemore

10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Ushers’ Ministry Adults Meeting 4th Saturday – POC: Sis. Gloria Lofton

10:00 a.m. New Member Orientation Saturday before the 2nd Sunday

11:00 a.m. Women of Zion Choir Rehearsal the Saturday before the 5th Sunday

2:00 p.m. Seniors Ministry Meeting every 3rd Saturday (Pinn Center)

Please see web-site calendar (www.glzbc.org) for more scheduled events