Pastor Gardner with the new daughter of
Pastor Ronald Tubillas, Tabatha.
John Pearson with Tabatha.
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October 25 2007 | General | No Comments »
I just got the following quote and update from our friend Pastor Derik Lawrence.
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ~ Harold Geneen
He has had some pretty major events in his life lately and I hope you will pray for him. His mother in law went to Heaven! His mom had a birthday. And his group of Seniors got pulled over by the police. You will have to read that one to believe it.
Pastor Lawrence will be preaching for us on November 15th at 7:15 pm
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October 25 2007 | General | No Comments »
Well tonight will be a very special night at our church. Wayne Cofield who was my pastor for many years will be coming and preaching on soul winning. He started and has now pastored the Whitfield Baptist Church for over 30 years. God has greatly used him in North Georgia and all around the world. You will be blessed to hear him preach tonight.
Invite a friend and come and be with us. We all want to do more to reach lost people with the gospel. People need to be saved and our goal is to help them hear the gospel and decide if they will accept the free gift of salvation.
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October 25 2007 | General | No Comments »
I want to ask all of you to pray for our missionaries. This article will show you the importance of prayer. Also I want to remind you of the danger that our missionaries face on the mission field. They need your prayers. Kevin and Corli live in South Africa. We support them as missionaries. They work in a place where few non blacks will go. Read this story and decide that you will be praying for them.
South Africa (MNN) ― Reports of 50 murders a day and one rape every 40 seconds are keeping tourists away from South Africa. The incredible crime problem is also causing problems for the country’s economy and for missionaries working there.
Trans World Radio – Swaziland missionaries Doug and Madeleen Schumacher were viciously carjacked and kidnapped Tuesday at gunpoint in Johannesburg. The Schumachers had just arrived to visit another missionary family when a carload of thugs pulled in behind them and forced them into the backseat of their own car. The two bandits then drove off and for the next 20 minutes told the victims that they intended to kill them.
A worldwide e-mail went out to TWR staff and friends around the globe asking for prayer. Meanwhile, other TWR missionaries got in their cars and scoured the area for any signs of their then-captive colleagues. TWR’s Ray Alary says the rest of the story is miraculous. “The man who was holding them at gunpoint said to them, ‘I was going to kill you, but you obviously have people praying for you and I am not going to kill you.’”
The bandits then dumped the Schumachers 50 kilometers away from their home. The couple was uninjured and praised the Lord for His protection.
However, Alary says Schumachers weren’t the only victims. “When these events happen, it traumatizes everybody who hears about it — all the missionaries that are working there. For many months to follow, everybody questions whether or not that could happen to them.”
Does is affect their work in evangelism, discipleship and other areas of ministry? Alary says, “Initially right now, it will. We will have to create stability again. Very often what happens is we do delay our plans to do certain things until we can have a sense that things are back to normal.”
Alary is asking Christians worldwide to pray for the TWR team in South Africa. “Pray for our safety. Pray for a sense that things will get back to normal, in time. And pray that this never happens again — that God will give us protection from this.”
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October 25 2007 | Missions | No Comments »
Following is the first part of an article to help you learn more about Halloween and how you should react as a Christian! We have our Fall Festival. Betty and I give out candy to the children in the neighborhood and when I read the following article i thought it might help you decide just how the Lord Jesus would have you to react. At the bottom of this article you will find a link. Click on it and read the entire article if you have a few minutes.
Halloween. It’s a time of year when the air gets crisper, the day gets shorter, and for many young Americans the excitement grows in anticipation of the darkest, spookiest holiday of the year. Retailers rejoice too as they warm up their cash registers to receive an average of $41.77 per household in decorations, costumes, candy, and greeting cards. Halloween will bring in approximately 3.3 billion dollars this year.
It’s a good bet retailers won’t entertain high expectations of getting $41.77 per household from the Christian market. Many Christians refuse to participate in Halloween. Some are wary of its pagan origins; others of its dark, ghoulish imagery; still others are concerned for the safety of their children. But other Christians choose to partake of the festivities, whether participating in school activities, neighborhood trick-or-treating, or a Halloween alternative at their church.
The question is, How should Christians respond to Halloween? Is it irresponsible for parents to let their children trick-or-treat? What about Christians who refuse any kind of celebration during the season–are they overreacting?
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October 24 2007 | General | No Comments »
The preacher’s 5-year-old daughter noticed that her father always paused and bowed his head, for a moment, before starting his sermon.
One day, she asked him why.
“Well, honey,” he began, proud that his daughter was so observant of his messages, “I’m asking the Lord to help me preach a good sermon.”
“How come He doesn’t do it?” she asked.
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October 24 2007 | Joke | No Comments »
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that at any moment the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.
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October 24 2007 | General | No Comments »
I can’t say much right now but I thought you might like to know that we are making very special plans right now for a brand new annual event here at our church. It will be called Christmas on the Northside.
Alpharetta, Cumming, John’s Creek, Milton, Roswell, etc. are all on the Northside and can easily be involved in our church. We are planning somethings that are going to become, hopefully, a Vision Tradition. An old fashioned Christmas together as a family. It will all take place here at the church on December 23 at 5 PM.
Can you think back to one of those idyllic Christmas settings, with carolers, roasted marsh mellows, snow, etc? Can you imagine getting all the family together–well we are planning something so super special right now.
I would love to have your help if you are part of Vision as we get ready for this very special time. There is so much to do. We want to get the gospel message to our community. We want most of all for Jesus Christ to be glorified and magnified in all that we do as a church.
Be praying now–let us know if you want to really help this be the biggest event that we have ever held. Please pray for us.
Christmas on the Northside!
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October 23 2007 | General | No Comments »
Well several of us just traveled to Covington to hear Brother Tony preach a tremendous message in a mission’s conference at Newton Baptist Church with Pastor Doug Parham. He did a wonderful job and we really enjoyed the service. They have a great church and God has really blessed them over the last 6 years since they started the church.
If you are a pastor and looking for one of the best men you could get to do a great mission’s conference you need to contact Brother Tony. I am very thankful and proud of the friendship that God has allowed me to have with a man like him.
I am also excited about Pastor Wayne Cofield coming to preach at our church on Thursday night. I hope you will be with us for the service. It will start at 7:15 pm. You are guaranteed to enjoy his preaching and he will challenge and train us on soul winning.
Be sure and check out Trent Cornwell’s newest blog. He is doing a great job and there will be tons of information to help anyone doing teen work.
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday and I hope you are making plans to invite several people to be with you for our Fall Festival Sunday. We will have lots of fun with the children and games right after the service.
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October 22 2007 | General | No Comments »
I must admit that I had no idea what all you had planned for us yesterday during the morning service. Thank you so much for our Pastor Appreciation Sunday. I usually at least know what is going on in our church but this took me by complete surprise.
When David Allison told me that he had left me a brick I had no idea what he was talking about. Then you gave me the notes written on the paper in the form of bricks. What a blessing! We have loved reading them and seeing what you had to say. I am so blessed and privileged to be the pastor of Vision Baptist Church. You are wonderful and a gift for God to us.
Thank you for the very generous love offering, the kind words, gift cards and everything else that was done. Thank you for the wonderful gifts that you gave Betty. I told her last night that maybe the sweetest thing for me was that you were so kind to her. She is the light of my life and my best friend. When I see her blessed it blesses me. Thank you so much.
Thank you for the good attendance –we had 112 in Sunday School and 132 in church. You listened so well as I preached and that was a tremendous answer to prayer. I was concerned that the message would seem so hard to you as we discussed the problems, pressures and tribulations that we have in life but you were right in there. It was as an old friend used to say tight but right.
I would like to invite you to ask for a CD of the last three messages if you were not able to be there. I spoke on how much respect we should give our pastor having no idea what you had planned for yesterday. Then yesterday we looked at how to deal with all the troubles we encounter on the way to Heaven. It was a two part message and so I hope you will get both CDs.
Thank you once again. I love you very much and love our church. God bless each of you.
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October 22 2007 | General | No Comments »
