Vision Baptist Church

What an honor to be part of commissioning two more missionary families to the work. Philip and Lori Bassham are leaving to raise support to go to Thailand. Scott and Melissa Newton are also leaving and will be raising support to go to Barcelona, Spain. I want to ask you to pray for them just [...]

In just a few hours David Lundy, Scott Lance, and I will get on a plane headed for Burkina Faso. We will be there to work with Missionary Keith Shumaker. I will be keeping you up to date on what is happening on my personal blog. I would like to invite you to follow along [...]

Dear Vision, I am very excited that we are a Bible church. We go from verse to verse. Today we will see the need to be always praying. Prayer is a great spiritual weapon. We desperately need the power of God and His working in all of our lives. I hope you will search your [...]

I am sure that you have heard by now but Ethan Howeth really needs your prayers as does all the family. Things are critical right now. You can follow every update that I give by following www.austingardner.net. Here is the last thing that I have posted so far. One Two Be sure and read the [...]

Betty and I will still be in Tennessee tomorrow. We are at the hospital with my dad, Charles Gardner. I will not be able to be at church on Thursday evening nor in my class on Friday morning. I appreciate your understanding that I need to be with my family at this moment. Lord willing, [...]

Betty and I have had a wonderful time in Arequipa, Peru with the family and being part of the Pastor’s School. We leave later this afternoon to return home. We will be excited to be back where we belong. I love Peru and miss it but I know that God has me a place at [...]

We are seated in the waiting area in Beijing, China ready to board a plane that will take us back to Newark, New Jersey and then on to Atlanta. It will take about 24 hours to get home. That counts the time since we left the hotel, spend 13 hours and 45 minutes on the [...]

They take off their shoes as they enter the church building and put on slippers. If you want to know how many are there count the shoes and divide by 2. They ran out of slippers and had to use plastic slip ons for the extras. That is after they bought 30 new slippers yesterday. [...]

Dear Vision God bless each one of you very much today. I am here in China with Mark and Natasha Tolson. God is doing wonderful things here through Jake and Stephanie. It is so exciting to see Chinese people being saved and discipled. Those of you that give to missions through our Faith Promise program [...]

Here is Mark T preaching in the English service. Not the best picture in the world because I took the picture with my Black Berry camera. The lighting was terrible. Mark did a great job. He and Natasha will do a great job as missionaries and I am very proud of them. It will be [...]