Archives for January 2008

Well here goes an explanation of the SEVENTY! I have had several people write and ask me exactly what we are doing and also some of the church people would like to know what is going on a little better. So here goes a stab at doing the best I can on explaining it! In […]

       

We just counted the contacts of the SEVENTY and found our first number to be 1422. That means that we have made that number of contacts through email, giving out tracts, knocking on doors, blogging, etc. What a wonderful blessing. One man put on his card even the places that he had given out tracts […]

As you know, our pastor left this morning for Burkina Faso. He is accompanied by his friend and body guard John Pearson. They will be there to teach and to encourage our missionary Keith Shumaker. Moments after the pastor pulls out of the business park the games began. We started with red – red rover […]

Jeff Bush is preaching the mission’s conference at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Dawsonville! Lord willing, I will be going tomorrow night to hear him preach! I wanted to invite you to go also. You can go on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday night! Since I will be leaving for Burkina Faso on Tuesday I will be […]

I just got a call from the grandkids–Young kids that is! They announced to me that Betty is going to be a grandmother again! Stephanie and David Young are going to have number 6. Congratulations to the Youngs and all the family!

Then come be part of Vision Baptist Church this morning! We will be open for business as usual! We want to sing, worship, praise, and preach the Word of God. We will have a blast today! The weather turned out not to be so bad after all except for being very cold! Hey if you […]

How are these pictures as a blast from the past?! But I do not want them to just be from the past! I want to ask you to be praying for the ministry of the Seventy! We are forming a group of people that will be willing to give out at least one gospel tract […]

John just sent me an email at 6:21 AM. He has driven to church and back without any problems at all! He says he drove at 5 miles an hour less than the speed limit which is kind of normal for him anyway!!! No problems so just be careful and come on! I am excited […]

Sunday School will be at 9:30 AM as usual! AM Service will be at 10:30 and then the normal PM Service will be at 6:00 PM. We will have the special banquet in about two weeks after things get back to normal! Tomorrow night I will give you a taste of what is coming! I […]

Yesterday in walks Eric Wu into my office with the greatest news I could have ever wanted to hear. He had accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior! Mark Tolson has been working with him for over a year. Nothing is more beautiful than to see people coming to know the Lord Jesus as the […]

It looked like it might snow and ice us out but I think the tide has turned! It will be cold but not in the building nor the service! I can’t wait to see you in Sunday School Bible Study! Tomorrow is the last service in our Stewardship month! It is the day we had […]

As you make your plans for tomorrow let me tell you that we are planning on having church unless things get like “blizzard conditions!” I know it is snowing but I think that we can still have a great service! It may melt off you never know! I believe regardless God will give us a […]

At least that is going to be my prayer! The services may have ended! Brother Rossi may be traveling to his home but I pray that the revival will not end. Let us pray that God continue to work in our lives. We have a whole year to serve God. Let’s take this forward for […]

We have a great friend and faithful attender, Sherry Penland, who calls me Brother Plate! I was preaching one night and trying to get across the point that we often put too much emphasis on the man, the preacher, and forget that the message is the steak! Since the message is what is important — […]

  On Tuesday evening Vision held a special youth service as part of our week of Revival.  We had 176 in attendance.  Here are a few pictures of the service.           

I went to bed last night thinking of all the people in our church that are dealing with issues and problems. I want you to know that i love you and literally sleep with or over your problems. It was a sweet time last night at church when I prayed at the end of the […]

Except for the snow that we had at Christmas on the Northside we just had our first snow! We had the revival meeting tonight with Evangelist Lou Rossi! We had a great time on the inside in the service but the kids were having a blast on the outside before and after church! They were […]

Friends have been praying with us about our revival plus others of our own church over seas, missionaries, and those who have been unable to attend because of work! I want to give you an update! Evangelist Lou Rossi has been a real blessing to our church and God has been moving! Last night we […]

God has given us a wonderful man to lead our teen and student ministry. He is passionate about serving God and desires to see the world reached with the gospel message. I am excited about how God is already using him so much in our church. I see us with young people that have more […]

I was just thinking about Camila! She was our volunteer secretary in my first pastorate. She had scleroderma! She came in every day and worked for free in our office. She later died of this disease and she suffered and hurt every day but she had a most beautiful spirit and attitude. Here is a […]

Will you pray with me about some goals and visions that I have for our church in the coming year! We need God to provide some staff people for us–no–we do not have the money to pay a salary –yet! But it has been our philosophy to get the man before the ministry so I […]

What can I say! I am spoiled as a pastor, I do not deserve all the good treatment and love that I get. Thank you so much for all you do. I wanted to tell you what happened when I got home from Boston. I walked in Sunday morning getting ready for the revival with […]

Here are some interesting stats that you will get to see in print next Sunday evening in our Vision night service: In 2006 we averaged 66 people in Sunday School–we started keeping records of that on March 12, 2006 In 2007 we averaged 101 people in Sunday School! That is a 53% increase! In 2006 […]

I wanted to remind you to mark your calendar to be with us for the Vision Business Luncheon on this Wednesday. We will meet at the Golden Corral off of exit 9 on Hwy 400. That is Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at 11:30 AM. Come and bring a friend for one hour of good food, […]

In Luke 10:1 the Bible says “After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.” I want to invite you to be one of the seventy! What if 70 of us signed up to invite or […]

God blessed today as we started our revival with Evangelist Lou Rossi. First this morning we added a new member through baptism: Justine Zheng! Watch her baptism right here. I thank God for Mark Tolson and the work that he does in our church! I know that God is going to greatly use the Tolsons […]

Jorge Montenegro accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior by reading a gospel tract that our son, David, gave him. He put the tract down on his bed side table and read it later. He then attended our church. I had the privilege of discipling him. today his two sons are in the ministry. The […]

Sunday you should hear about something very exciting that you can get involved in. The Seventy! That is all I will tell you for now but part of the Seventy has to do with using gospel tracts so read this and later we will get you some more info. This was written by R A […]

This was sent to me by Jonathan Clapp.  It’s a real eye opener of how blessed we are to be Americans. Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11  Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 United States: The Revis […]

Just so you will know and can plan your week accordingly: We will start on Sunday morning at 9:30 AM we have wonderful Small group Bible Studies in our Sunday School that you will really enjoy. Come be part of one of the classes that we have for every age. At 10:30 AM Lou Rossi […]