Author: trent cornwell

Please pray with the pastoral staff of Vision Baptist Church. Here are some dreams and desires we have for this year as we launch as a church to do more for the cause of Christ. Yoke Fellow Families We would like to see a faithful family in our church connected with every missionary family in…

  Many of your who will be attending the Growing Together Couples Retreat know this beautiful young couple. To know this couple, is to love this couple. It is Pastor Tony Howeth and his wonderful wife, Mrs. Stacey. So here are the rules of the game.  You do not have to attend the conference to…

Ordination Service for Robert Canfield October 27th , 2011 7:00 pm at Vision Baptist Church   We are honored and blessed to have the Canfield family serving in the ministries of Vision Baptist Church. Bro. Robert has served as the Childrens Pastor, instructor in the Our Generation Training Center, and as a pastoral assistant. He…

One of the best illustrations the Bible uses for the church is that of being a body. (1 Corinthians 12) The church is one body yet there are many parts to the body. Although, we may not be the same part of the body, we each have a purpose and a gifting to serve the…

We have been warned for the last couple of weeks that a large number of pink flamingos would be migrating into our city. It is an unprecedented act by these birds (except for when we did this fundraiser three years ago) to land in North Fulton and Forsyth County. The Students of Vision (youth ministry)…

4 Myths about the Matthew’s Banquet from Trent Cornwell on Vimeo. Tomorrow will be an exciting day at Vision Baptist Church. Every Sunday is exciting because we gather as a church family and celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, we hear an expositional sermon from the Word of God, and fellowship in our small groups…

I thoroughly enjoy our midweek services. We meet every Thursday night at 7:00 pm for worship through song and Bible study. Our Pastor is currently in the book of Philemon. We just ended in the book of Colossians and will start Revelations on September 26th. Tonight we are honored to have the Pilgrims with us.…

I would like to encourage all of our teenagers to attend Faith Factor 2010! I look forward to watching our students grow in their faith over the week. Please, bring your $30 registration fee in this Sunday. If you have any questions please call me at 770.853.8148. We still have spots open so you can…

We have wonderful news! Many teenagers were having difficulty raising the $25 to attend Dodge Hunger 2010. We have been able to make some adjustments and bring the cost down $5! Yes, you heard me correctly only $5. Thanks to the partnership with the I.N.O Student Ministry of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Dawsonville, GA we…

There are so many things about our church that makes me want to encourage you to come and “Discover the Difference”! One of the things that makes our church refreshingly unique is our view of how all of our lives should be given over to God for His mission here on earth. We do not…

Post originally posted by Ben Johnson on the Vision Couples Blog Hopefully you are well aware that we are in our second week of our Unfailing Love challenge at church. As you may know, this series is based on looking at God’s attributes and putting them into our marriage. You may have looked at all…

This week the couples of Vision are looking to magnify God’s attribute of being “eternally forgiving” in their marriage. You might say that marriage is a snow globe for God’s love towards the church. We believe that many of the issues our country is facing could be remedied by more people seeing the love of…

We have three days left in the “Take Initiative” week of the Unfailing Love Campaign! This week was intentionally placed at the beginning of this series. Unless we die to ourselves in marriage we have no way of drawing closer to our spouse. “Taking the Initiative” is a attribute of God we clearly see from…

The church is supposed two consist of only two types of people, as missions in concerned, “goers” and “senders”! This Thursday night, Feb. 4th, we will be having a very special night where these forces combine for a night of mission centered preaching and praying. You will not want to miss out on this exciting…

During the month of February we are going to spend some time looking at the wonderful attributes of God’s “unfailing love” towards us and how that should be applied to our marriages. As we learn more about the way that God loves us then we are better able to love our spouses. Throughout the month…

Have you ever realized the day before Christmas that you forgot to get a gift for someone on your Christmas list. This usually leads to regifting something from your closet, a gift card to the Quik Trip, or a quick trip to whatever store you can find open. It is bad feeling when you noticed…

Last night we had a wonderful Mission Accomplished Service for the Canfields and the Pearsons. Robert & Kelli spent six months in Peru studying and working as part of their training in the Our Generation Training Center. Andrew and Holly have been burdened with a desire to assist missionaries in the the area of media.…

Is there anything greater than seeing God’s people come together in serving to fulfill the God’s mission?! We are having a blast getting ready to move into our new building. Micah Rastelli started the work almost 48 hours ago. It is amazing how much has been accomplished in such a sort amount of time. However,…

On December the 4th from 5 – 9 pm we will be taking the Students of Vision rock climbing at Adrenaline Climbing in Suwanee, GA. You can learn more about the company that provides this indoor rock climbing opportunity at http://www.adrenalineclimbing.com/. We hope your will mark your calendar and plan to have your teenagers and…

anomaly |əˈnämÉ™lÄ“| noun ( pl. -lies) Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. Every Sunday night we have a wonderful time studying the Word of God. This Sunday night we will being doins something different, something out of the normal, and may be something that many people would not expect. You might…

Join us Tuesday Night at 7:00 pm for our Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner We will be giving thanks for all the blesseings we have been so graciously given from our awesome God! There will be a sign up sheet at the Welcome Center if you would like be part of the volunteer team that will…

We hope you are making plans to join us this Saturday for the 1st Annual Turkey Bowl! Contrary to popular belief we are not bowling turkeys or seeing how many bowls of turkey we can eat. We will be having a flag football game. The “Old Timers” verses “The Whipper Snappers”. We are suggesting a…

ADULT BIBLE FELLOWSHIP / DECEMBER SERIES Sundays at 9:30 AM As a church, we are gearing up for our move this December! More important than making sure we have the chairs ready to move, we must make sure we (the people) are ready to make room for God in 2010! We have an exciting and…

We are very proud of our teenagers for their initiative in raising money to help with the move! Our youth ministry has nearly tripled since we moved into our current building. As a result we had to knock out some walls for them. They raised $366.00 at last weeks Rummage Sale! They are using this…

Thank you all for you prayers. Bro. Tony & Mrs. Stacey have been overwhelmed by our churches response. You are a wonderful church family. We are here at the Palmetto Richland Hospital here in Columbia, SC. They are looking at moving here to Charlotte or Atlanta. Here is the latest update from Mark Coffey. Mark…

This morning Ethan Howeth was accidentally shot in the leg while deer hunting. We will keep you posted as we receive information. All we know at this time is that he is at the hospital with his family.

Set Your Clocks Daylight savings time ends Sunday morning at 2 am. So make sure before you go to bed on Saturday you set your clocks back one hour. It is so great to gain an hour. We will make sure we have something for you to do at the church for all of you…

This goofy video was made to help you see how close the new building is to our current building! We are so thankful to have found a building near Hwy 400 and on exit 12. When Monday, December 14th looks like the date for the move. This will be an exciting time for Vision Baptist…

On many occassions people have asked me how they could help the youth ministry. Well, here is one way that you can! This weekend we will have a Rummage Sale at the home of Chuck and Leisa Littlefield. If you have any items you would be willing to donate please let us know. The yard…

Judson Elías Masters Born October 9, 2009 @ 9:28 A.M. 7 lbs. 8 oz. 19 inches If you would like to send Tyler and Gretchen an email letting them know you are praying and congratulate email [email protected] Learn more about this wonderful family www.masterscall.net

Judson Elías Masters was born just a few minutes ago! All we know at this point from Tyler is that Judson, “appears to be healthy and is a good eater”. Tyler, Gretchen, and Judson are at Emory at Johns Creek Hospital. We will provide a picture and more additional information as soon as we are…

Please be in prayer for our pastor’s father, Bro. Charles Gardner. He is currently in surgery in Tennessee. Last night Bro. Charles had two strokes. We will keep you updated as soon as we know more. Please, pray… 1. for the doctors as they perform the surgery. 2. for the family during this difficult time.…

We enjoyed three powerful, full of truth sermons on Sunday night. Scott Newton preached a message entitled “Christ Centered Missions”. This is a very timely message as we will be going into our missions conference in 7 weeks. Christ Centered Missions

Wayne Cooke preached a wonderful message from the text containing the story of the Prodigal Son. He brought one of the three wonderful sermons we heard last night at Vision. I would like to encourage to watch, listen, and apply the three sermons from last night. Here is a link to watch the service if…

We know that the start of the school year can be a trying time for our students. We have a large percentage of our youth group going into their freshman year of high school. Starting at 1 pm on Friday, August the 7th we will be having a 24 hour training course for our students.…

Last night we had a wonderful service at Vision Baptist Church. Wayne Cooke, Philip Bassham, and Scott Newton delivered powerful, truth filled messages from the Word of God. We wanted to make their outlines available to you. The first outline is from Philip Bassham. It was the best 15 minutes of teaching on music I…

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After several weeks of intense competition, Philip Bassham won our Vision T-Shirt Design Contest. You can see a picture it on the Welcome Center in the main foyer. We will be taking orders once again this Sunday after the morning service. The cost of the shirt will be $10. We will only order the shirts…

On several Saturday’s throughout the summer Lang & Fe set up the volleyball net in the field in their subdivision. It is a great time of fun and fellowship while enjoying the outdoors. There is a really nice play area for the kids and plenty of room for them to run around. Also, you can…