Vision Baptist Church

Just for your interest I thought I would let you know that Vision News is now 31 months old. We have now posted 1965 posts. It is a great way to keep up with what is going on at Vision Baptist Church. If you are not subscribed I hope you will today. Get your friends [...]

I do hope it snows and they are talking about snow but then this is Atlanta. I would love to see snow but wanted to let you know that we will be having church regardless. I doubt that it snows much. I doubt that it sticks. I know we like to get excited but let’s [...]

1Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. David has just brought the ark to its new resting place. He and all the people are worshipping God. There are lots of things that could be said [...]

1Chronicles 15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. David wanted with all of his heart to please God. He decided to bring the ark home. 1Chronicles 13:3 He [...]

Jeremy Hall preached tonight. I have gotten several comments that really blessed and impressed me. John Pearson sent me a text saying; “The preacher looked like Jeremy Hall but preached like D. L. Moody. Sherry Penland wrote to tell me the following; “Missed you too, but I might have found a new Bro Plate. Jeremy [...]

Betty and I traveled to Charleston, South Carolina today to be with Stephanie Velke. As you know her dad is dying. She is one of our members, wife to David Velke, and future missionaries. I had been out of town on the Pastor’s Retreat that we led, then Jeremy Hall’s ordination. This was the only [...]

I have a friend who is on a missions trip to Thailand and Burma right now, and she got to visit the Karen village in Burma. When I saw the name of the village, I immediately thought of Sarah Boardman (who would later become Sarah Judson, Adoniram Judson’s second wife) and her work with the [...]

1Chronicles 9:13 And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. In the midst of all the lists of names you find this interesting comment; “VERY ABLE men FOR the WORK of the [...]

I am sure that more will be available later but for right now here is one picture of the ordination last night at Whitfield Baptist Church. Jeremy Hall got ordained by his home and sending church. Mark Coffey, Tony Howeth, and I got to participate with Pastor Wayne Cofield and Whitfield Baptist in the ordination. [...]

This morning when John Pearson arrived to teach a class and work on church projects at 5:45 am he found the church quite damaged and some articles stolen. He called 911. Here are some pictures of the damage. It appears that our insurance is not going to cover much. We lost about $800 on the [...]