Ministries

Ministries and Programs Offered

Adventist Youth Society (AYS)
The Adventist Youth Society (AYS) is designed to prepare ourselves for the Spiritual Warfare that is upon us. The AYS Department uses games, skits, discussions, films, activities, and vespers to bring to our members the importance of girding ourselves against the attacks of the devil. We use the whole Armor of God as we have a great time training to be soldiers in Gods Army. Capitol City's AYS Program is geared for the young and the young at heart. AYS is held each Sabbath one hour before sunset.

Adventurer Club

The Adventurer Club is a parent/church-centered program which provides parents with a tool useable with their 6-9-year old children and is designed to stimulate the children's budding curiosity towards the world about them. This program includes age-specific activities that involve both parent and child in recreational activities, simple crafts, appreciation of God's creation, and other activities that are of interest to this age group. All is carried out with a spiritual focus setting the stage for participation in the church as a Pathfinder.

Audio/Visual

Winning souls for Christ is the goal of the Audio/Visual team that provides sound and video for the weekly Sabbath worship services. As a vital part of the church, this ministry seeks to use the latest audio and visual technology to reach out not only to our members and community, but also to those around the world who don't know Christ.

Community Services Department
The Community Services Department is an important feature of the outreach (missionary) activities of the church. This society gathers and prepares clothing, food, and other supplies for the poor, needy, and unfortunate. Community Services, however, includes more than giving material aid it encompasses also adult education, visiting, homemaking, home nursing, counseling, and other services.

Education Department
The Education Department recognizes that a comprehensive understanding and clear vision of Christian education whose ultimate aims harmonizes with those of redemption can be developed and fostered only where the church is continually reminded of the preeminent mission of such an education. The purpose of the Education Department is to work towards the goal of enrolling every child of the church in the church school. We also provide guidance for establishing in the home an atmosphere of love and discipline in which Seventh-day Adventist Christian values can be instilled in children through Bible study, prayer, family worship, and the example of the parents. We will maintain contact with students who are away in church schools by encouraging them through writing, sending care packages to them representing the love of the Capitol City family.

Family Life Department
The Family Life Department of the Capitol City Seventh-day Adventist Church promotes, coordinates, implements, and evaluates programs that cultivate spiritual, social, intellectual and economic development for all family groups in the church. While nurturing the individual's capacity to relate skillfully, we also strive to help in deepening one's commitment to relationships. In conjunction with the Health and Temperance Department, the Family Life Department promotes, coordinates, and implements programs to encourage the practice of good health principles (physical and mental) in the home, essential for positive family life.

Health & Temperance Ministry
We are called to be godly people who think, feel and act in harmony with the principles of heaven. For the Spirit to recreate in us the character of our Lord, we involve ourselves in those things which will produce Christ-like purity, health and joy in our lives. This means that our amusement and entertainment should meet the highest standards of Christian taste and beauty. It also means because our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, we are to care for them intelligently. Along with adequate exercise and rest, we are to adopt the most healthful diet possible and abstain from the unclean foods identified in the Scriptures. Also, we are to engage in whatever brings our thoughts and bodies into the discipline of Christ, who desires our wholesomeness, joy and goodness. Capitol City's Health and Temperance Department will offer Cooking and Exercise Classes throughout the year.

Hospitality
The word "hospitality" is characterized by such words as caring, receptiveness, concern, cordiality, charity and generosity. It is the medium through which others come to know or comprehend the extent to which they are accepted and/or appreciated within a group. The hospitality ministry seeks to create an atmosphere in which people will feel welcome and comfortable within the church and to work with different departments in the coordination of projects and activities where food services are involved.

Men's Ministries
Men doing ministry with and for men and the community...that's what Men's Ministries is all about. We are about more than the traditional service club, "knife and fork" kinds of meetings. Not that those don't have a place, they do, but Men's Ministries is just what it says, it's about ministry. We welcome you to become and be part of this outreach and inreach. Keep in touch with us and share your hopes, ideas, needs, programs and materials. All of us together are smarter and more capable than any one of us individually. Let's build broader and deeper ministry by working together.

Music Ministries
The Music Ministry Department seeks to utilize the power of worship music by bringing an offering of praise, fighting discouragement, teaching truth, strengthening worshipers, and nourishing the membership in preparation for Christ's soon return. Each Sabbath, our choirs (Children's Choir and Sanctuary Choir) prepare the hearts of the waiting congregation to receive the word from the Lord.

Pathfinder Club

Pathfinders offer a wide range of activities including, but not limited to:
camping & survival skills, grade appropriate leadership training, activities promoting community pride, and involvement through outreach activities. This program also offers interactive training in a variety of recreational, artistic, nature, conservation, vocational, and outreach areas, with awards (honors) given for successful completion of the interactive training modules. We offer personal care and encouragement by our caring staff members. The age group for participating in the Pathfinders Club range from 10- through 16. The Pathfinders Club meets on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.

Personal Ministries
The Personal Ministries Department provides resources and trains church members to unite their efforts in ministry along with church officers in the final proclamation of the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. The aim of the department is to enlist every member in active soul-winning service for God; to awaken people that are spiritually asleep; and to make known, in word and in action, the imminent Second Coming of Jesus Christ in this generation.

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Religious Liberty
Religious liberty provides the individual the freedom to follow one’s conscience-dictated religious convictions without outside interference as long as the conviction does not limit the rights and lifestyles of others and does not adversely impact the well-being of society. Religious Liberty Ministries seeks to inform the Church of events affecting religious freedom through news alerts, seminars, articles, and the promotion of the Liberty magazine. We also serve as a referral resource for individuals with Sabbath issues at their workplace.

Sabbath School
The Sabbath School is the primary religious education system of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and has four purposes: study of the scripture, fellowship, community outreach, and world mission emphasis. The Sabbath School is an important branch of the missionary work, not only because it gives to young and old a knowledge of God's word, but because it awakens in them a love for its sacred truths, and a desire to study for themselves. Above all, it teaches them to regulate their lives by its holy teachings. Sabbath School begins at 9:15 each Sabbath morning.

Social Recreation
The Social Recreation Department is responsible for aiding the departments and coordinating social recreation activities. The Department conducts youth social recreation excursions, social recreation activities for all church members.

Stewardship Department
The Stewardship Department's role is to: emphasize God's ownership of all that we are, have and possess by defining our role as stewards; encourage faithful stewardship through the study of God's word, and the integration of what we learn from our daily lives; and to lead the church in embracing the full concept of stewardship in every phase of our live. Stewardship is the lifestyle of one who accepts Christ's lordship and walks in partnership with God, acting as His agent in managing His affairs on earth.

Ushers
Ushers are responsible for maintaining orderly seating in and exiting from the church. This is one of the most visible ministries in our church. Each member, newcomer, or returning visitor comes to the church with the hope that he or she will experience renewal and celebration. The skillful usher helps make this a reality.

Vacation Bible School
Vacation Bible School is a major soul-winning service fostered by the Sabbath School Department of the Capitol City Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is offered in an effort to care for the spiritual needs of children in the community, nurture the children into being tomorrow's leaders in the community and in the church. Our Vacation Bible School will take place during the Summer of 2009.

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Prayer Meeting is held every Wednesday Night from 7:00pm to 8:30om. The 1st Wednesday of each month is Fasting & Prayer. Please come out and receive a mid-week blessing filed songs, testimonies, and prayer.

Women's Ministries
Our spiritual vision is to lift up Jesus Christ and by enabling women to discover and realize their leadership and ministry within the home, the church, and the community. By the transforming power of the gospel, His strength will be their strength. The Women's Ministries Department will endeavor to enrich and empower women to realize their value as human beings in Christ and their role within church and society. The Women's Ministries Department will meet every 3rd Sunday of each month from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.

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