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Whether you've been with us for thirty years or you're reading this before your first visit, everything below is open to you. Worship is Saturdays at 11:00 a.m., Bible study at 9:30 a.m., and you don't need to be a member to walk through any of these doors.
🌟"What If . . . ?" — A Spiritual Gifts Seminar
September 26 & October 3
Most people can tell you that God gives spiritual gifts. Far fewer can tell you what theirs is.
This two-Sabbath seminar exists to close that gap. Using the EQUIP curriculum, we'll move past the abstract idea of gifting and into actual inventory work — a spiritual gifts assessment on the first Sabbath, and a DISC profile on the second — with time built in to process what comes back.
The sermons tell you God gave you something. The afternoons tell you what it is.
September 26
- 11:00 a.m. — Worship service, Pastor David Bracetti (Session 1 themes)
- 12:30–1:15 p.m. — Lunch, provided by Women's Ministry
- 1:30 p.m. — Session 2: Spiritual gifts inventory, led by Elder Rick New
October 3
- 11:00 a.m. — Worship service, Pastor David Bracetti (Session 3 themes)
- 12:30–1:15 p.m. — Lunch, provided by Women's Ministry
- 1:30 p.m. — Session 4: DISC profile, led by Steve Krivda
The morning worship services are open to everyone — no registration, no cost, just come. Registration applies to the afternoon sessions, so that your participant materials can be ordered and lunch counted. Those materials are covered by the church; there is nothing for you to pay.
Registration closes Thursday, September 18. Materials have to reach us before the 26th, so we can't extend past that date.
Or text the word GIFTS to 941-877-5654 — a short form comes back asking how many are attending. Names are optional.
Guests are welcome at everything, including lunch.
Saturday, September 5 — Pastor David Bracetti
A ten-part study of what changes when a congregation stops attending church and starts carrying its mission. Each week takes a single Kingdom value — the way God's people treat one another, welcome outsiders, serve, take risks, and build something that outlasts them — and asks what it would look like lived out in Naples.
September 5 — "Faith That Risks" (Joshua 3:13–17): The Jordan was at flood stage, and God's instruction was to step in. The water didn't part until the priests' feet were already wet. This message looks at what God asks of a church that wants the guarantee before the obedience.
Sermons are posted online one week after they're preached. Catch up on the website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Amazon Music.
New here? You don't need to sign in, dress up, or know anyone. Come as you are.
Messages are posted online one week after they're preached. Last Sabbath's message becomes available Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
Making Room for New People
When we allow Jesus to write His law on our hearts, we become more humble, gracious, merciful, loving, and compassionate toward others, not showing favoritism to anyone, but treating everyone as a potential citizen of His Kingdom.
🥫Food Distribution
In partnership with Midwest Food Bank, Naples Seventh-day Adventist Church distributes groceries to our neighbors once each month. This ministry has served the Naples community for six years.
Every month, on the Saturday following the second Tuesday, we set aside the afternoon to feed our neighbors.
If you need food, come at 4:00 p.m. Drive through our porte cochere and we'll place a box straight into your trunk. Walking or riding a bike? You're just as welcome — you don't need a car to receive food. There's no registration, no paperwork, and no documentation of any kind required. First come, first served, until the boxes are gone.
We'll also ask if there's anything you'd like prayer for. If there is, we'll pull to the side and pray with you right then.
If you'd like to serve:
- Tuesday, September 8 at 12:00 p.m. — Truck offload. About a half-hour of lifting. Show up and help.
- Saturday after worship — Bring a picnic-style sack lunch and stay; we eat together in the Fellowship Room. Lunch is not provided on distribution Sabbaths, so pack your own — and maybe one extra.
- 2:00 p.m. — Packing begins. We fill Blessing Boxes with essentials for families across our community. No experience needed. Prefer to go home after service and return at 2:00? That works too.
- 4:00 p.m. — Distribution begins.
We serve on Sabbath deliberately. Isaiah 58 names sharing bread with the hungry as the fast God chose, and ties it directly to calling the Sabbath a delight. Jesus put it plainly in Matthew 12:12: it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. This afternoon isn't an exception to the day — it's the day working the way it was designed to.
Learn more: Food Distribution
🎒Youth Church-August 29
September 12 & September 26 · approximately 11:30 a.m. · Youth Room, left front of the sanctuary
Middle and high school students break out during the worship service for their own space. Led by Andrew Krivda, Youth Church runs as open discussion tied to Pastor David's morning message — the students set the direction, ask the hard questions, and get honest answers.
New students are welcome any Sabbath we meet.
On September 26, the discussion runs parallel to the spiritual gifts seminar, giving students a chance to ask the same question the adults are asking: what has God actually put in me?
Subscribe for updates: Youth Ministry
💪Men’s Ministry-September 14 & 21
Men of God is our men's gathering under Men's Ministry, led by Steve Krivda. It is open to every man — church membership is not required, and friends, family, and coworkers are always welcome.
These two nights work together.
The Mastermind Session on the 14th is the planning table. What this ministry becomes — the format, the focus, what these men build together going forward — gets decided in that room. If you've ever had an opinion about what a men's ministry ought to be, that's the night it counts. And if you've never attended a meeting, come anyway — no agenda required. A man who can say plainly what it would take to get him to come back is the most useful voice in the room.
The Kick-Off Meeting on the 21st launches what the 14th shaped. If you've been thinking about coming, start here: everyone begins at the same place, so there's nothing to catch up on and no conversation you're walking into the middle of.
Both are the kind of room where a man can stop performing and say what's actually going on.
Subscribe for updates: Men's Ministry
🌸Summer Women’s Bible Study
Our summer women's study, led by Sharon Foster, concludes on September 17. The study has run on the first and third Thursdays of the month in an open-attendance format — meaning there's no prerequisite, no catching up, and no awkwardness about walking in for the last night.
If you've been curious about it all summer, this is your chance to see what it's about before the next season begins.
Subscribe for updates: Women’s Ministry
Happening in September:
9/8 12:30pm Food Bank Truck Offload (volunteers)
9/12 ~11:30am Youth Church
9/12 2/4:00pm Food Distribution Packing/Distribution
9/14 6:15pm Men’s Ministry (Mastermind)
9/17 6:00pm Women’s Bible Study (Final session)
9/18 🌟Spiritual Gifts Seminar Registration Closes (Text “GIFTS” to 941-877-5654)
9/21 6:15pm Men’s Ministry Kick-off meeting
9/26 ~11:30am Youth Church
9/26 12:30/1:30 Lunch & “What If...?” Spiritual Gifts Seminar
Questions? Get in Touch
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