Santa Maria Seventh-day
Adventist Church
Teaching Truth, Serving God,
Loving People
The Santa Maria Seventh day-Adventist Church is a community of Christians with a rich diversity in culture, age, talents, and gifts. We are constantly looking for ways to reach out to our community to share our love, the love of Christ and the wonderful message of hope in Christ.
Our prayer is that, whether you visit us here on our website or attend our Sabbath services or join us for one of our social events, that you will feel loved and compelled to walk closer with Jesus.
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Sincerely,
Pastor Jong Han
OUR VISION
To transform our community one family at a time by Teaching Truth, Serving God and Loving People.
OUR COMMITMENT
We serve God in every possible way to help our community grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
OUR COMMUNITY
Our community is our family. We exist to serve our community making efforts to reach their needs in many ways.
OUR BELIEFS
Seventh-day Adventist beliefs are meant to permeate your whole life. Growing out of scriptures that paint a compelling portrait of God, you are invited to explore, experience and know the One who desires to make us whole.
Devotional
A Father
SCRIPTURE READING — MARK 9:14-29
A man in the crowd answered, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech"
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My wife and I have two children, and I can’t imagine them being sick with more than the flu. When I hear about kids who have cancer or other terrible diseases, my eyes tear up as I think about the burden of suffering in childhood and the load of concern weighing on parents in those situations.
I can’t imagine what the father of the boy in Mark 9 was going through. Hearing about the healer named Jesus and what he and his disciples could do was probably that father’s last hope. So when Jesus’ disciples couldn’t cast out the impure spirit from his son, the man must have been devastated. And when Jesus asked him if he believed, the man’s heartfelt confession was as raw and true as they come: “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
We often find ourselves in similar situations, even if they aren’t as dire as this father’s predicament. We want to believe. We know that we need to believe. And in the meantime we keep fighting against nagging feelings of unbelief.
Jesus has come to help in the way we need it most. Though he might not help us in the same way he helped the anguished father and his son in today’s story, Jesus showed, by laying down his life, that he truly loves us. And by his resurrection he made it possible for us to live with him forever!
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Lord, I believe you are God above all and in control of all things. Help me overcome my unbelief in every area of life! Amen.
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-Bret Lamsma
