Vision Baptist Church

Dear Pastors, Partners, & Praying Friends, God is doing a work! October was a month full of many blessings as the Lord is building His church. We are excited to be apart of what the Lord is doing and experience it first hand as we continue in our language studies. Let me report to you [...]

 Dear Pastors and Praying friends, The month of October has been one of the most memorable months of my life.  God has done some great things in the ministry in Peru.  I had the privilege of traveling down to Peru for the Pastor’s School.  We had a great time while there.  The conference was very [...]

Click on the link below to check out a video of missionary Keith Shumaker’s recent trip to South Sudan! South Sudan Video Here are some thoughts Keith wrote about his recent trip: I got back from a tremendous trip to South Sudan. What I saw and what we experienced was amazing and life changing. South [...]

The eighteenth century proved a turning point for Baptists in America. In 1700 they could count only 24 churches with 839 members. That number included all kinds of Baptists, fewer than half were Regular or mainline Baptists. And by the end of the century, Baptists had become the largest denomination in America, according to one [...]

Preaching to the Chickens: This past month our sister church in Cobija Bolivia celebrated it’s 6th anniversary. I was invited to travel up with our assistant Isaac to participate in their anniversary conference for three days. We arrived on Friday and the conference started that same night. There were special activities each night with the young [...]

We believe in the ministry of the local church. Fact is that the term local church is redundant. It is our goal to see like minded churches started all over the world. Currently our 14 missionaries (all members of Vision Baptist Church) are aggressively being used to do that in several countries and around the [...]

The only way to truly spark a church planting movement in Chile is through teamwork.  One person could never accomplish this goal alone.  The main players on this team are the Chilean people God has called and is calling to the ministry.  The key to reach a country for Christ is to train the locals [...]

It is our desire to plant a church in Fulton County, Georgia within the next 8 months. The church is beginning to take steps directly towards that goal. Lord willing, Vision will begin supporting the church planting ministry as one of our home missionaries at $200 a month. We are also going to try to [...]

    Update on the Ministry: In September, we had an exciting time at our annual Harvest Service with guest preacher Graham Anderson. Also in September, we began our Bible Institute. We have on average about 6-8 students who are faithful every week. We are teaching Bible Doctrines, Methods of Bible Study, and Baptist Distinctives. In [...]