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Raising Children in a changing world!

I want to challenge you to really get serious about raising your children in the nuture and admonition of the Lord.  That means you must discipline and disciple your children in the right way to get them through what are known as the “tween years” 10-12 and also the “teen” years.  God has given us [...]

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SEARCH AND RESCUE: No man left behind.

The new message series is entitled Search and Rescue.  It is our intention to learn how to make the following statement a reality: NO MAN LEFT BEHIND. I thank you for having been with us this morning.  I believe that God blessed.  We had 77 for Sunday School and 90 for church and that on [...]

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Could we be these men?

Could we be these men? The points listed below were contained in the body of the reply from Pastor John Robinson and his deacon William Brewster to the Virginia Company to secure the patent necessary to settle their church congregation in the new world of America.  This was the heart and resolve of the pilgrims.  [...]

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American church culture immoral, says study

The following is a must read.  Vision is unashamedly a “high commitment” church.  We are going to study the whole Bible.  Our goal is to prepare men and women that are totally committed disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Our goal is to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.  We [...]

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More history of Thanksgiving

Governor William Bradford called the Pilgrims to the first Thanksgiving celebration in the New World with the following proclamation.  To All Ye Pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and [...]

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Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation!

I have added the bold text that you will see in this proclamation below.  This is the document that set in motion to have Thanksgiving be an annual event on Thursday.  In the midst of war and much trouble Abraham Lincoln said that we should set aside time to be thankful.  Notice how many references [...]

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Your thankfulness affects others!

This just came in an email.  I thought you would enjoy it. A gentleman of wealth, but a stranger to a personal knowledge of God, was walking alone through his grounds one evening. Coming to the small hut of a poor man who earned his family’s bread by his daily labor, he heard the continuous [...]

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Special Thanksgiving Service pictures!

We had a wonderful time of fellowship and thanksgiving.  Ryan and Crissy Murphy  Steve and Shawna Wallace   Jacob Taube and Stephanie de los Reyes get our congratulations as they are now engaged to be married.  They are missionaries to China! Carolyn and Charles Gardner, my parents!  

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Fox News reports: Almost 40% of Children Born in the U.S. in 2005 Were Out of Wedlock, an All-Time High

A major warning signal has been fired again.  The family is in trouble in America.  Many children are and will be raised in single parent homes.  We must meet the needs of these families with God’s truth.  Children need the security of two parents that love them and not a couple of people who are [...]

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Let me just say thanks!

Well we just finished our thanksgiving service and I praise God for all that He has done in our church and in our lives.  I really wanted to just take this time to tell each of you that attend Vision how much I love you and how thankful I am to God for the privilege that [...]

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