Sabbath Bulletin for 11/01/2025

Shalom Brothers and Sisters in Messiah Yeshua. The LORD continues to put it on Pastor Andrew's heart to go out to teach so that we can bring people in to follow Yeshua with us, so please pray that the LORD directs our steps to align with this plan and accomplish His purposes for His own glory!

First Fruits Ministries will come together for the LORD's weekly Sabbath celebration, a Holy Convocation day, on 11/1/2025 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 60 Bailey Ave., Manchester, NH 03104 for a time of rest in the LORD. Our First Fruits Ministries Sabbath service will begin at 10:15 a.m. in-house, and then we will go live for our YouTube audience around 10:30-10:35 a.m., God willing.

During our in-house-only segment, we will listen to a summary of this week's Torah Portion called: Lech Lecha (Go forth): Genesis 12:1-17:27; Isaiah 40:27-41:16; John 8:51-58.

During our in-house and online segment, Pastor Andrew J. Manuse will present part eight of his series, called "Who Is Yeshua the Messiah?," which will focus on the powers of God. This series will comprise a study of Christology, which focuses on the identity, nature, and work of Messiah Yeshua relative to His divinity, humanity, mission, and position in the eternal plan.

We prefer you to be with us in person for fellowship, but if that is not 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.

If you have not already done so, please download the new Torah Portion schedule here as a PDF. Also, the 2026 Holy Day schedule is ready. Please download the PDF document now and prepare to request the LORD's Holy Days off of work for next year's feasts.

During our second “rewind” service that will begin around 3 p.m., Pastor Gary Durham Jr. of Corner Fringe Ministries will deliver his message, called "Proverbs 31: Assembly Required." Join us to watch the sermon in person at First Fruits Ministries or join Corner Fringe online at: https://www.youtube.com/@CornerFringeChannel/streams.

For those seeking a perspective from Scripture and history on the pagan celebration coming up at the end of this month, I invite you to watch and study my Bible Presentation from 10/31/2023, called "Give No Place to the Devil." In sharing this with you, I aim to prepare you with Godly instruction concerning how we ought respond to, engage with, and disengage with those who are celebrating what ought not be celebrated. Remember, God loves all of His human creatures, even those who are confused, deceived, or in rebellion, and His desire is repentance for all men and women. His desire for those of us who know the Truth is first that we walk in it ourselves, and then for us to go out and make disciples for Yeshua, baptize new believers in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and teach them the commandments of God, and so let us do just that with the gentleness, kindness, long-suffering, and love that He provides us through His Holy Spirit.

Let us pray for God to water the Word of God with the living water of His Holy Spirit so that it can bear good fruit. I pray that this study brings blessing and encouragement to turn toward God and away from the world, especially during this time. Please watch and then share this study if the Holy Spirit leads you to do so: https://youtu.be/fwef0h93kyY?si=0aop7Gikyv4SJ93r

Additionally, some of you have mentioned a desire to counter the evils of the annual celebration of wickedness with additional worship, fellowship and prayer in the name of our LORD and God Yeshua. I believe this is highly appropriate and I celebrate and support anyone's desire to bring light and life and praise to Yeshua to counter the wickedness of the enemy. The good news is that Yeshua is stronger and He is already victorious! I want to invite you to take part, if you feel so led, in the worship night at The Zeal Movement at 811 Canal Street, Manchester, NH 03101 in Manchester, from 6-8 p.m. on Friday night (the Sabbath) 10/31/2025. Pastor Phil has assured us that nothing going on that evening will violate Sabbath.

Because First Fruits Ministries' livestreams to YouTube and uses YouTube as our sermon archive, we took the time to reorganize our home page to make sermons and key teachings easy to find and share: https://www.youtube.com/@firstfruitsNH. We hope you find this YouTube reorganization useful.

So you are aware: we also use Rumble and Odysee to archive our messages, but these services don't allow the same organization as YouTube, which is why we focused the reorganization there. You can still access all of our content on the other platforms.

For the purpose of this announcement, when you go to our page on YouTube, you'll find recent video uploads at the top, our First Fruits Sermon series' next, then our topical sermons, series, and studies, and then Corner Fringe and Affiliate church sermons. These "Corner Fringe Ministries Affiliate Messages" are organized according to priority. The first 11 playlists include essential teachings, and subsequent playlists are organized by category. Categories include Messianic/Christology, Bible Book-based, Bible Topic-based, Eschatology/Prophesy, One Part teachings, Holy Day teachings, and finally other teachers and series produced by pastors besides Lead Pastor Daniel Joseph. Below that list, which you can expand by selecting "view all," we list outreach resources, then popular videos, and finally links to our affiliate church channels and other great content that we stand by at First Fruits. At the top, you can access pages that lead to all of our videos, our livestreams, and our unorganized playlists. There is also an magnifying glass that will help you search through our page for key content.

We've reorganized our YouTube page for two reasons:

1. We want it to be easy for you to find all of the resources you need to grow in the faith, and we firmly believe you will find everything you need from our YouTube homepage, with the exception of the one video YouTube censored, which you can find on our website's media page toward the bottom or here. There are enough sermons and teachings here that it could take you the rest of your lives to get through them all, if you are doing other things besides watching.
2. Some of you view the teachings of ministries outside our network of churches, which may or may not be beneficial to your faith. While we can't say we've included every good resource that there is on our YouTube page, we do believe it is best not to confuse ourselves with questionable doctrines from other ministries, particularly when our church and affiliates provide so much good material to answer your questions and get into every topic of interest. When you feel the need to watch YouTube for your Biblical understanding, we encourage you to check our page first before moving on to other pages.

Of course, the best way to learn more about God is to read the Bible and pray, and we do hope you are doing that daily. Attending Shabbat services in person to learn from our messages and discussions and our monthly Bible study series are additional ways to learn.

As always, email or text me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

Blessings and shalom!

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).

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 every 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