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Archives for December 2007

One of the last miracles of the year 2007 for Vision Baptist Church

December 31, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

The following comes from John Pearson and his blog but I wanted to make sure that all of you read it! It is a wonderful answer to prayer. I have been a church treasurer for 25 years and have had a mountain of neat experiences. Today was one of those. We all beleive that God […]

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2008 coming up–Consider

December 31, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well our theme for this year is “Consider!” What is it that God wants to do in your life. Brother Tony Howeth preaches a message on this subject. In this message he asks the following questions that you need to consider as we start this year. If not you then who! If not now then […]

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2007–the year in review

December 31, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Great things that God did this year in our family and in our church listed below. Maybe you can think of some others to add to the list. *First ever couple’s retreat for Vision Baptist *Starting Master Clubs for our children’s ministry *A great Celebration Sunday as we celebrated our first year anniversary *Our first […]

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Lou Rossi Revival

December 31, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Get this on your calendar! Invite every body you know to come and be with us as Evangelist Lou Rossi comes to preach a revival at Vision Baptist Church January 13-17. I know that you will enjoy having him with us here to preach. Invite everyone you know and be praying that God will really […]

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Stephen and April Baker on their way to Northern Ireland!

December 31, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Last night we had the privilege of having Stephen and April Baker with us in the services at Vision Baptist Church. Stephen and April left today at about noon! They will be taking over the work that Martin Wickens pastors in Northern Ireland for the next 4 months. We were privileged to pray for them […]

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Did you read the devotional with your family today?

December 31, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well as you know we are in the process of trying to get every family to take time today to read their Bibles and have devotions as a family. Did you or are you about to read the Bible with your family. Again here are some last minute instructions on how to go about reading […]

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Living on Borrowed Time

December 30, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

That was the name of the message this morning and here is a quote that just came though on a blog that I thought was very fitting: So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psalm 90:12) A few days after these words appear in print the old […]

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What are we calling people to do?

December 30, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Any appeal to the public in the name of Christ that rises no higher than an invitation to tranquillity must be recognized as mere humanism with a few words of Jesus thrown in to make it appear Christian…. Christ calls men to carry a cross; we call them to have fun in His name. He […]

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Another Update is Available

December 29, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Be sure to check out the newest video update from the Our Generation Summit 2007 click here https://visionbaptist.com/main/page_media_summit_updates.php

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Summit Video Updates

December 28, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Be sure to check out the updates from the Our Generation Summit 2007. They’re videos! You can find them by clicking here https://visionbaptist.com/main/page_media_summit_updates.php

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As I walked away

December 27, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

As I walked away from the Summit meeting that ended at 6:30 or so I was told that this year was already better than last year. I know that the guys are doing a great job with the music thanks to Philip Bassham. I know that Brother Tony’s message was right on target. The plea […]

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Off to a great start–The Summit 2007

December 27, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

God is already at work in the mini conferences, Tony Howeth and Aaron preaching, prayer and great fellowship. Tonight I hope to post a little about the preaching–maybe even some audio. Please pray for us that God would be glorified.

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well I wanted to take this opportunity to wish a very Merry Christmas to all of the Vision family from those that live here in the USA to those that are scattered around the world and our missionaries. Kitty and Karla Stephens are still members at least for a few more days and they are […]

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A Merry Christmas in Burkina Faso

December 25, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well I just got through chatting with Keith Shumaker in Burkina Faso and he woke up on Christmas morning with malaria chills. His parents are there visiting but he has had a rough bout with the disease. Not a fun way to begin Christmas or any day but he has been one of those true […]

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Check out the Spanish Church video

December 25, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Pastor Ronald Tubillas has put up a video of Christmas on the Northside. You will really enjoy it if you take the time to click right here and go see it.

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Christmas on the Northside PICS

December 24, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

               

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Well I slept on it and I am still amazed

December 24, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

I am amazed that God gave us 30 first time visitors from the area! I stand amazed that 3 people were baptized and became members of our church! I stand amazed that we had 160 in the evening service with at least 180 showing up for the activities afterwards. I stand amazed that there were […]

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Wonderful Christmas on the Northside

December 24, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well tonight was wonderful. The service started at 5 pm. God gave us another member and someone to be baptized. David Clapp was baptized tonight. God has blessed the Clapp family and all 5 of the family have now accepted Jesus Christ and followed him in baptism. Then we had 160 come to church tonight […]

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Your missionaries did this

December 24, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

I just read one of the most beautiful posts that I have ever read! Julio and Joy Soncco are your missionaries in Arequipa, Peru. I know that they are my kids but I couldn’t help but feel a sweet and wonderful Christ-like Christmas feeling. Here is there post: I would like to share with you […]

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Report

December 23, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

I was just thanking God for how good He has been to us this year, 2007, and I believe that I am right when I tell you that this year He has allowed us to baptize 23 so far and to see 28 people join our church. I will go over the records better and […]

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Welcome our newest members

December 23, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well this morning was just one of those days. Many of our people were out of town but God gave us a great attendance anyway! Sam Paxin got baptized today and became a member of Vision Baptist Church! Also Gertrudes Sanabria was baptized and there is another new member to the Lord’s church. Be sure […]

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Merry Christmas

December 23, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well today is our Christmas Sunday. It is raining and that is a gift from God. He has been so good to us. Actually Betty and I were born in 1954 and that is the driest year on record for our area and so I would like to see God keep it that way. If […]

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Ramblings from North Africa:

December 22, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

The following comes from an email sent out by project North Africa and Aaron. I want to encourage all of you to get your copy of this book as soon as possible. I have already ordered mine and paid for it over paypal. One Church-planting team’s first year of minsitry to Muslims My wife Jillian […]

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A book every Christian needs to buy!

December 22, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Aaron, Jillian, Cesar, and Mariet have written a book about their first experiences in the Muslim world of Northern Africa! The book is entitled “Ramblings From North Africa” I have been aware since the day that they started writing that God had His hand on this in a special way. You will see into the […]

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Bobsled races for Christmas on the Northside

December 22, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well check out the bobsled races that are prepared for tomorrow night by several of the men and especially set up by Jared McKinnon.

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update

December 21, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Here comes another one of those really messed up posts. We had a wonderful evening last night. A muslim visited our church last night and had the gospel individually presented to him and needs your prayer. His name is Mohammed. That is a super common name among muslims but still you can be praying. We […]

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Death Go Down!

December 20, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Thanks to Philip Bassham for sending me this:

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Ways to bless your missionaries!

December 19, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

based on this article Were you unable to send a Christmas present or care package to some missionaries you love this season? It’s okay. You can still bless a missionary this Christmas. Here are some ideas to get you started, most of which you could do right now from your desk right now: Pray specific […]

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update

December 19, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

I called this post an update because I guess like most of them it is going to be a conglomeration of things instead of about one subject. First a correction: I stated that we had about 40 visitors yesterday to our luncheon but that was definitely “evangelistically speaking!” I think it was between 18 and […]

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Busy time of year

December 18, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

This is a wonderful time of year but it is really busy! We were blessed today as we held the luncheon for the business park. There are some wonderful people that work here and they are great neighbors. I think we had about 40 come for the meal and probably that many people from the […]

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Exciting!

December 18, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

People are running all over the building right now getting things ready to feed some of our neighbors from the business park where the church is located. The smell of food, the beautiful decorations, the hard work several of the guys did yesterday painting and all make me very proud of this church. I thank […]

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One of those nights!

December 17, 2007 By Austin Gardner 1 Comment

You know what I mean when I say that–God moved in unreal ways in our service tonight. Brother Aaron with Project North Africa preached and it was fantastic. He honored our church for our part in the ministry by giving us the first letter that he had received as fruit of the ministry there. It […]

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Happy Birthday Katie!

December 16, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well it is late and it has been a very busy day. It started with leaving for church at 8:30 AM, Sunday School–wonderful day with a wonderful class, AM service–blessed, Tony Howeth’s grandmother’s funeral, Volunteer Meeting, PM Service–literally out of this world, then the couples Christmas party! It is now 10:25 PM and we are […]

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Believing God

December 14, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all. — Charles H. Spurgen

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Wild and Crazy People at Vision

December 14, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well I am so proud of our church and thank God for them. I am sitting here in my office at 6:55 AM and shortly later I hear noise outside in the hallway. I wonder who in the world is vacuuming the church at this hour. I sneak down the hall and there is Sandy […]

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Video Podcasts!

December 13, 2007 By Mark Coffey Leave a Comment

Here are the feeds for our video podcast that you can add to itunes. They do not all have videos on them now but should be the end of the week. http://feeds.feedburner.com/bcweproductions These will include random clips of Bro. Austin’s preaching. http://feeds.feedburner.com/bcwepodcast This is a daily video podcast I will be putting out Monday-Friday of […]

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Christmas on the Northside

December 13, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Jared McKinnon and John Pearson hard at work preparing bobsleds for the kids to enjoy at Christmas on the Northside. Vision Baptist Church is preparing something very special for all of our community. We will have Christmas on the Northside and tell people about Jesus and enjoy some good fun together. I appreciate Jared for […]

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Happy Birthday Elizabeth Watson!

December 13, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

I know that there is no way that I can wish everyone that attends Vision a Happy Birthday here on the blog and I try not to unless they are staff! However Elizabeth is just like staff–she is voluntary staff. She is a blessing to our church. Though you never see what she does you […]

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Happy Birthday Andria!

December 13, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well today is Andria Gardner’s birthday! She is our missionary to Peru. Our son, Chris, was blessed of God with a very good woman. She has been a tremendous asset to the ministry and has been greatly used of God. I thought I might tell you the story of how Andria arrived in our family […]

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Christ alone

December 12, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

We preach today what was preached 1800 years ago and wherein others make alterations they create deformities, and not improvements. We are not ashamed to avow that the Old Truth of Christ alone is everlasting; all else has gone or shall go, but the gospel towers above the wrecks of time. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Tony Howeth’s grandmother is in Heaven

December 12, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

For those of you that have been praying for Brother Tony and his family I wanted to tell you that she went to Heaven yesterday. Thank you for praying and I hope you will let Brother Tony and Mrs. Stacey know that you love them. It appears that there will be a funeral service this […]

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Something to think about

December 12, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

“The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.” Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. “Success is never final; failure is never fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

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How to have a good marriage!

December 12, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

On their 50th wedding anniversary, a couple summed up the reason for their long and happy marriage. The husband said, “I have tried never to be selfish. After all, there is no ‘I’ in the word ‘marriage.’” The wife said, “For my part, I have never corrected my husband’s spelling.” Sounds like someone from Tennessee […]

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Lessons on reading the Bible by George Muller

December 11, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

George Muller is known for his prayer life, but most people don’t know much about his devotional life in the Word of God. He gave some great advice about Bible study that I believe is worth noting, and I hope an encouragement to you. “If any one should ask me how he may read the […]

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Please pray for the Howeth family

December 10, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Brother Tony just talked with his mother just a short while ago. Hospice expects his grandma to head home to be with the Lord at anytime. I wanted to ask everyone of you to be praying. You all know what a blessing the Howeth family is to everyone of us. I will keep you posted […]

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Booked: Brother Aaron from Behind the Veil

December 10, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Brother Aaron will be with us this Sunday night. I promise you that you will not want to miss this and that you will want to invite your friends to come and be here for this evening. Brother Aaron (I am calling him that so as not to reveal his identity on the internet) is […]

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More people signed up for the Summit yesterday

December 10, 2007 By Austin Gardner 2 Comments

Well more people signed up to go to the Summit with us yesterday and so I wanted to remind as many of you as possible about this great event and see if you wanted to go with us. You can click right here to register. I promise you that you will enjoy your time at […]

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Great Day on Sunday

December 10, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

Well we had one of our best Sunday School classes this Sunday in the Couples Class. I got an email and several comments about the class and I am grateful to God for the privilege to be with each of you and to study the Word of God together. Well I am already looking forward […]

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Pray that God will open hearts!

December 10, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

It is urgent that we pray that God do a work in the hearts and lives of people all around our area and the world. Pray that I will be able to preach with power. Pray that God will draw people with the power of His Holy Spirit! Pray for Christmas on the Northside. If […]

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Latest News on Terri Snode

December 10, 2007 By Austin Gardner Leave a Comment

This just came in an email from Travis. She is doing well. They have done a lot of test today and say that her heart looks find so far. They say that sometimes these pains happen and nothing is found, so they are just trying to make sure that there is nothing wrong. So far […]

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