Archives for August 2007

We are honored as a church to have Micah Rastelli as our newest member. Micah moved here from Pennsylvania to study in the Our Generation Training Center. He is a fine young man. He spent the summer with our missionary friends in Morocco. Micah is a very fine and hard working young man. I hope […]

Well yesterday I left the church to travel to Oliver Springs, Tennessee to preach for Pastor Adolfo Bourde at the Spanish Ministry of Mount Pisgah Baptist Church. Betty and I had a wonderful time traveling and it was really fun to preach in Spanish again. God bless and one gentleman got saved. Betty and I […]

In my opinion one of the most important meetings we have in our church is the Teachers and Worker’s meeting. It is the time we plan and prepare for the work that God has given us. I am excited that God has given us such a good team. We will be changing the way we […]

Well I have been blogging so much that when I miss a few days or blog less some of my friends think that something must be wrong. I got a call from one of our friends over seas and the wife said–you need to ask him if he is ok, is he traveling, sick, or […]

Mark and Natasha Tolson were back home and with us today. They got married on August 18, 2007. They just returned from their honeymoon to be with us for Matthew’s banquet. Mark and Natasha seem to be so happy and it is a great honor to have such a fine young couple in our church. […]

Well today was our Matthew’s Banquet and God greatly blessed. Though many of our regulars were out of town we still had a good number of visitors. There were 35 in the Spanish church and 4 accepted Jesus as their Saviour. Pastor Ronald is doing a great job and we are blessed to have him. […]

I just thought that I would share some notes that I came across on the computer! Can you honestly love someone and not pick up their loves? If you love God, how can you not want what He wants? We are supposed to be men and women of sorrows. This is a society where you […]

Hold your tongue! 1Pe 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 1Pe 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 1Pe 3:10 For he that […]

Well I have been getting it hard for my little stunt Sunday night with the sound system. In case you weren’t there you missed it. I can be a real jerk, pain, and embarrassment and especially when it comes to the sound system! As we began to pray on Sunday night the sound system did […]

I am sure that some of you might be asking the question, Why Matthew’s Banquet? Let me tell you the story first. When Matthew or Levi (his other name) gave his life to follow Jesus he invited all of his friends to his house. He then invited Jesus to come to his house and introduced […]

Listen Another step in Home Improvement that I have always found very difficult is listening! I can get so caught up in my world and the things that I am doing that I do not take the time to listen and to really hear what Betty is saying. I will have the TV on, a […]

Well I thought that I would take the time to give you a few ideas about how we might improve our home life and marriage. Each Sunday morning we have a class on this very subject. In the Home Improvement Class we talk about what the Bible says that would help us to be better […]

Well I have kind of gotten behind on the posting due to any number of excuses that aren’t that good so I will just not give you any of them. I am really excited about what God is doing and so let me just kind of give you a bunch of short blurbs Saturday Mark […]

David and Anne Lundy do a great job with our children’s ministry and are answering questions just like these every day!

Well Mark and I have been out this week passing out Matthew’s Banquet invitations, gospel tracts, and brochures about our church. Someone called the church this week to ask what was going on. They had seen an old beat up white car that had gone by their house like 5 times and had left the […]

Though you might not believe it this is Betty and me on August 18, 1973. God has been so good to us and more so to me. We were married in Rome, Georgia and we were young and had no idea what all God had for us to do but it has been a wild […]

I read lots of blogs every day but two of my most favorite are Ramblings from North Africa and The Gospel in China. They are exciting adventure stories like you read about when you were a kid. They are real live heroes even now. I know and love both of these families. I want to […]

The North American Mission Board did a study about new church plants. Since we are a new church plant I was very interested in reading the report and to see how we would fare according to the statistics. I thank God for how He is blessing and wanted you to be able to rejoice also. […]

I wanted to share a post by Ron Maggard with each of you! It is very good and very strong and goes along with what we have been seeing in the book of Acts. We must tell them about Jesus. Some Alarming Statistics Concerning Cultic Evangelism 1. Jehovah Witnesses distribute over 471,000,000 copies of their […]

Well after all the Classes of the Week finally the Sunday School class that we teach gets the nod. I really enjoy our class and thank God for everyone that is in our class. We are having a wonderful time. If you are not attending Sunday School or want to learn more about serving the […]

Earlier we saw that a man had been arrested for passing out gospel tracts in Cumming. The case has begun to make national Christian news. Read here to get more information. By NANCY BADERTSCHER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/09/07 A Cumming man had to turn to a higher authority for justice after he was […]

In a post by Douglas Wilson he discusses bitterness. I thought that it was good enough that you should read it. Bitterness is a horrible way to live and it destroys those who live in it. Also resentment is horrible and we need avoid this sin. Read on and see how you need to allow […]

Lord willing we will be having World Evangelism Committee Session this Sunday from 1 to 4 p. m. I am excited that we have lots of people that are truly excited about being a part of trying to reach the world with the gospel message. It has been a couple of months since we had […]

Persecution has been our subject on two different nights now–both Thursday night and Sunday night. We have looked at how God’s people responded to persecution that came there way. It has been an interesting study in theory since we do not know personally suffer here in the USA for our faith. While persecution for us […]

“The greatest difference between Christians and the world around them is the building where they spend their time sleeping on Sunday.” Rikkert Zuiderveld “It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners, as it is in captive nations today. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of […]

Well the last graphic I put up had grammatical errors in it and Betty, my wife was quick to point that out! Needless to say that post has since disappeared. I definitely hope that you are excitedly planning on what you can do to get the gospel to your friends and have them be with […]

There is always a lot going on at Vision Baptist Church without a doubt! I would also say that much of it revolves around world evangelism or missions. One of the very special things that we do every year is called the Summit. As a team of missionaries we began holding this very special conference […]

I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish my dad a Happy Birthday! He will be 78 on August 6, 2007. I really appreciate God having given me a dad that got saved shortly after my birth and then having raised me in church teaching me to serve God. I just wanted to say […]

Have you seen the new blog that David and Anne Lundy are starting for our children’s ministry. I am really excited to see all that they are doing and I hope you will help spread the word so that all the children and parents can keep up via their new blog http://visionbaptistfaithfriends.blogspot.com/ Subscribe to Vision […]

Well Lord willing you will be able to hear some testimonies and maybe see some pictures Sunday evening at Vision from the trips that our people have been on. Jeremy Hall has written a very good article and has some pictures that you will want to check out on his blog. John Pearson also put […]

Trent Cornwell and Mark Coffey are doing a great job with their blogs and I wanted to be sure and tell you to check out their recent additions. Trent will tell you what is happening in Peru and on their time there. Mark Coffey has set up a blog that would be good for all […]

Well I just want to thank God and wanted you to be able to praise also. Here is a comparison from a year ago until today. In July of 2006 compared to July 2007. Sunday School grew from 48 to 99. AM service grew from 60 to 122. The PM service grew from 42 to […]

I am sitting here in the basement of our house just getting ready to leave and go to the church for the afternoon and for the Thursday evening service. I have been writing, studying, praying and thinking of all the good things that God has done for me and for all of you. Right now […]