Bulletin for Shabbat and Unleavened Bread

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah Yeshua. Please pray the LORD helps us to fully embrace the grace we have received as a gift in the salvation offered by Messiah Yeshua while we hate the sins that still surface in our lives, for leaven is impossible to completely remove on our own without Him. Nonetheless, we are commanded to continue to keep the leaven out of our lives through sundown on 4/29/2024, and we ought to always remain humble and repentant before God on account of sin.

God also commanded us to eat unleavened bread in memory of our Messiah Yeshua each day, and to make a burnt offering (of prayer) each day of the Feast through 4/29/2024 in memory of our unblemished Lamb (Leviticus 23:4-8). Besides the weekly Sabbath, please make sure you do no work on 4/29/2024, for this is a Holy Convocation Day according to Leviticus 23. These are also Holy days of assembly, and so we ought not forsake the assembling of ourselves for worship, as is the manner of some, but come together to exhort one another as the Last Day approaches (Hebrews 10:25).

Here is a rundown of First Fruits Ministries' upcoming Sabbath and the rest of Passover Week Celebrations, which will all be held at 60 Bailey Ave., Manchester, NH 03104:

• For the Sabbath celebration on 4/27/2024, we will hold a High Shabbat service from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., for the Sabbath in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Our first service begins at 10:30 a.m., during which Pastor Andrew will deliver a sermon loosely based on this week's Torah Portion reading (see below). We prefer that you join us in person, but if you are too far away to make it or ill, please join us online at https://www.youtube.com/@firstfruitsNH/streams. At noon, we will celebrate the Sabbath with fellowship until 2:30 p.m. in our Oneg room. Then, we will gather in the sanctuary again for the Corner Fringe rewind "service," during which Pastor Daniel will give part 16 of his series called "Psalm 27": https://www.youtube.com/live/JNekuAaMVWE. IMPORTANT: We will be memorializing communion at the beginning of Oneg during this service, as we have been commanded to do by Yeshua.
• For the Feast of First Fruits on 4/28/2024, this is not a holy convocation day and we will not meet. We recommend spending time with your family and/or doing charitable work in your community to recognize the new life we have in the risen Messiah. See Leviticus 23:9-14 for more information about the day. If you have a garden that produces grain or other spring vegetables, we suggest offering the first of it, if available, in a wave offering and prayer to the LORD.
• For the Last Day of Unleavened Bread on 4/29/2024, we will be gathering again at 11:30 a.m. for a Corner Fringe Ministries livestream service followed by food and fellowship in the Oneg room. This is a holy convocation, Sabbath day, and we ought to gather corporately. Our fellowship will likely wrap up early around 4 p.m. on this day, because we will not have a second service. Those who can't make it in person due to illness or distance can find the livestream information here. IMPORTANT: This will be the last time we celebrate communion for the year. Also, if you are still looking for study material to watch during the Holy Day, please consider Pastor Daniel's sermon from the Passover Seder held in Minnesota last week, called: "Passover 2024."

Here are the Torah Portion Readings for this week: Chol Hamo’ed Pesach (Intermediate Day of Passover): Exodus 33:12-34:26; Ezekiel 37:1-14, Song of Solomon 1-8: https://tinyurl.com/4fjz7be8.

Other events:

• First Fruits Ministries will also meet at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 4/30/2024 in the fellowship hall at 60 Bailey Ave., Manchester, NH 03104 for our monthly Bible study. The study, "Ask the Pastor," will begin at 7:45 p.m., and offer attendants the opportunity to ask Pastor Andrew whatever questions they'd like concerning Scripture. Participants may also join on zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81206801000.
• First Fruits Ministries will screen "The Chosen," Season 4, Episode 1 & 2 starting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday May 7 and Episodes 3 & 4 at 7 p.m. on Tuesday May 14 at 60 Bailey Ave., Manchester, NH in the sanctuary. See the announcement for more information.

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