Special Sabbath Bulletin for 6/21/2025
Shalom Brothers and Sisters in Messiah Yeshua. Please pray the LORD uses us to reach new believers for Yeshua, to share His love, mercy, grace, and Truth with long-suffering, kindness and gentleness, and to faithfully lock shields with one another on the battlefield as we stand with Yeshua in His light against the forces of the world and its darkness.
First Fruits Ministries will come together for the LORD's weekly Sabbath celebration, a Holy Convocation day, on 6/21/2025 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 60 Bailey Ave., Manchester, NH 03104 for a time of rest in the LORD. Some members, including Pastor Andrew, will be offsite for Shabbat, but the church will still be open and operational for morning services and oneg. Please note that we will be finishing early this Shabbat on account of Pastor Andrew's off-site ministry and because we won't be streaming Corner Fringe's service.
During our in-house-only segment, starting at 10:15 a.m., First Fruits Ministries will listen to a summary of this week's Torah Portion, called "Shelach (Send)": Numbers 13:1-15:41, Joshua 2:1-24; Matthew 10:1-14. When our regular First Fruits Ministries service begins around 10:30 a.m. in-house, our brother Todd Biery will be leading the liturgy and our sister Aidan Rose will be leading the worship, as usual, but this segment will not be live-streamed. We will present an abbreviated livestream, featuring Pastor Andrew's sermon "Judge Not? There is a Time for Everything," and potentially some off-site worship, for both our YouTube audience as well as our in-house audience, at a potentially earlier time. Feel free to rewind our livestream service this week or just play the sermon from the beginning so you can start at the usual time.
During the abbreviated First Fruits Ministries livestream this week, Pastor Andrew will remotely deliver his message from the Liberty Ecclesia (Liberty Christian Church) tent at the Porcupine Freedom Festival in Lancaster, NH (see photo below). Pastor Andrew has been preaching at Porcfest since 2021, at the invite of Liberty Ecclesia's coordinator Varrin Swearingen, and his Sabbath sermon in the Liberty Ecclesia tent has become an annual ministry to the pro-liberty community in New Hampshire. Pastor Andrew will spend the entire Sabbath within the setting of this mobile church, where Shabbat can be fully remembered and kept, per the commandment.
If you won't be up at the mobile church with Pastor Andrew, please join your brothers and sisters in person in Manchester. If neither location is possible, you can join us remotely by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/@firstfruitsNH/streams. Please review our General Itinerary on our website for specific information about our Sabbath services.
First Fruits Ministries will come together for the LORD's weekly Sabbath celebration, a Holy Convocation day, on 6/21/2025 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 60 Bailey Ave., Manchester, NH 03104 for a time of rest in the LORD. Some members, including Pastor Andrew, will be offsite for Shabbat, but the church will still be open and operational for morning services and oneg. Please note that we will be finishing early this Shabbat on account of Pastor Andrew's off-site ministry and because we won't be streaming Corner Fringe's service.
During our in-house-only segment, starting at 10:15 a.m., First Fruits Ministries will listen to a summary of this week's Torah Portion, called "Shelach (Send)": Numbers 13:1-15:41, Joshua 2:1-24; Matthew 10:1-14. When our regular First Fruits Ministries service begins around 10:30 a.m. in-house, our brother Todd Biery will be leading the liturgy and our sister Aidan Rose will be leading the worship, as usual, but this segment will not be live-streamed. We will present an abbreviated livestream, featuring Pastor Andrew's sermon "Judge Not? There is a Time for Everything," and potentially some off-site worship, for both our YouTube audience as well as our in-house audience, at a potentially earlier time. Feel free to rewind our livestream service this week or just play the sermon from the beginning so you can start at the usual time.
During the abbreviated First Fruits Ministries livestream this week, Pastor Andrew will remotely deliver his message from the Liberty Ecclesia (Liberty Christian Church) tent at the Porcupine Freedom Festival in Lancaster, NH (see photo below). Pastor Andrew has been preaching at Porcfest since 2021, at the invite of Liberty Ecclesia's coordinator Varrin Swearingen, and his Sabbath sermon in the Liberty Ecclesia tent has become an annual ministry to the pro-liberty community in New Hampshire. Pastor Andrew will spend the entire Sabbath within the setting of this mobile church, where Shabbat can be fully remembered and kept, per the commandment.
If you won't be up at the mobile church with Pastor Andrew, please join your brothers and sisters in person in Manchester. If neither location is possible, you can join us remotely by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/@firstfruitsNH/streams. Please review our General Itinerary on our website for specific information about our Sabbath services.
Second Service
Due to the circumstances in both churches, First Fruits Ministries will not present a second "rewind" service for Corner Fringe Ministries this week, but you are welcome to watch Corner Fringe's Vacation Bible School presentation, called "Torah Boot Camp," at your leisure: https://www.youtube.com/live/ac5CcKKw6s8?si=7xOVUr58h8Gqo2VW. Because the second service will not be broadcast this Shabbat, please plan for an extended Oneg or an early departure.
Do You Have A Testimony to Share?
Pastor Kraig's son Grant Dorney led the way in our community by giving his testimony of transformation from darkness to light and from death to life in Messiah Yeshua on 6/14/2025. If anyone else would like to give his or her own testimony after our weekly sermon, please talk to Pastor Andrew privately about your interest so he can determine whether and when you could go on camera. Understand that truly transformational testimonies have huge potential to change hearts and minds and build up God's people.
Let Grant's leadership be our guide. Please also share his story with those who will benefit from hearing it. Thanks to Grant for his willingness to lead in this way and for Yeshua for His long-suffering and mercy, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).
Let Grant's leadership be our guide. Please also share his story with those who will benefit from hearing it. Thanks to Grant for his willingness to lead in this way and for Yeshua for His long-suffering and mercy, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).
The Weather is 'Warmish'
Is the LORD calling you into the water?
Within our series, "Elementary Principles of Messiah Yeshua," First Fruits Ministries covered the topic of baptisms and what they mean for new believers in Messiah Yeshua. The four sermons delivered during the Spring of 2025 present a great preview of what baptism entails for everyone considering it. We believe baptism is an urgent, obedient act that we are called to do as part of our sanctification, and through baptism we are buried with Yeshua, and then we are also raised up with Him into a new life through faith.
If you are considering baptism, please watch these sermons and then contact Pastor Andrew via our website at https://firstfruits.cc/contact to move forward in your faith and join Yeshua's family.
Watch four FFM sermons and three CFM sermons on baptisms by clicking here.
(We've also included three key sermons from our overseeing church, Corner Fringe Ministries, on the same topic. If you'd like a different perspective, please watch those also.)
If you are considering baptism, please watch these sermons and then contact Pastor Andrew via our website at https://firstfruits.cc/contact to move forward in your faith and join Yeshua's family.
Watch four FFM sermons and three CFM sermons on baptisms by clicking here.
(We've also included three key sermons from our overseeing church, Corner Fringe Ministries, on the same topic. If you'd like a different perspective, please watch those also.)
Weekly Prayer Meeting
Brothers and sisters, with the urging of Pastor Stephen Opoku, an Elder at First Fruits Ministries, and the LORD's own guidance, we have instituted a Signal Prayer group for First Fruits Ministries that will be held each week. This group will meet 9:30 a.m. each Friday, with announced exceptions, to pray for God's will to be done at First Fruits Ministries. Please only join this discussion group by clicking the image below if you intend to be present at some of the prayer meetings. We will be using the Signal group to connect with one another via voice at the scheduled prayer time.
May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord shine the light of His face upon you and be gracious to you; and may the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and grant you shalom!
יברכך יהוה וישמרך
יאר יהוה פניו אליך ויחנך
ישא יהוה פניו אליך וישם לך שׁלום
As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.
אָנֹכִי וּבֵיתִ֔י נַעֲבֹ֖ד אֶת־ יַהְוֶה
יברכך יהוה וישמרך
יאר יהוה פניו אליך ויחנך
ישא יהוה פניו אליך וישם לך שׁלום
As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.
אָנֹכִי וּבֵיתִ֔י נַעֲבֹ֖ד אֶת־ יַהְוֶה
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