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Tim and Alicia Caucutt
We are very excited to welcome Tim and Alicia Caucutt as members of our church! They have recently moved here from Virginia where Tim had been serving as a recruiter for the Marines. We are grateful for his service to our country and his desire to serve our Lord through the ministries of the church.…
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Goals from Vision Night
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…
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Couples Retreat: Photo Caption Contest
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…
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This year, our community outreach has already tagged close to 2,300 doors, in only two month! We are very excited about this, and are on pace to tag over 13,000 doors in the community! Wouldn’t it be exciting to be a part of that? On February 25th, 39 different people from Vision gathered for a…
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Welcome to the new welcome center!
Church building projects are always an exciting time, and it is always good to see expansions and improvements made to the church building. From the largest build out to the smallest improvement and project, it is always a great thing to see the Lord allow us to build an addition to the church building. We…
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Feliz cumpleaños (Happy Birthday), Pastor Ronald Tubillas!
Today, our church had the wonderful privilege to celebrate Pastor Ronald’s 40th birthday. Pastor Ronald was saved under the ministry of the Gardners while they were serving in Peru. His salvation completely changed his life and he soon enrolled in the Bible institute in Arequipa, Peru. After he graduated from the Bible college, he served…
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Prayer for the Students of N.F.H.S.
Below is an excerpt from a post that was recently published on the Cumming Patch. I would like to encourage all of you to be in prayer for the students of N.F.H.S. It breaks my heart to hear that someones “story” on earth ended like this young mans. What is deeply convicted and should drive…
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News from Ireland: Snode November Prayer Letter
Update on the Ministry: In September, we had an exciting time at our annual Harvest Service with guest preacher Graham Anderson. Also in September, we began our Bible Institute. We have on average about 6-8 students who are faithful every week. We are teaching Bible Doctrines, Methods of Bible Study, and Baptist Distinctives. In…
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Ordination Service for Robert Canfield
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…
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Learn all about Georgia…the country!
Country of the Week: Georgia Each week our church features a Country of the Week to pray for. We ask the Lord for laborers for the harvest in this specific country. One of the young teenage ladies in our church has begun to help us by using her writing skills to help us give you…
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June Report from Peru!
Dear Brethren: It is a pleasure to be able to communicate with you and share the blessings of God in our lives and ministries. I want to begin by thanking Pastor Ruben Effio from the Callo Lima Baptist Church for the family conference from May 20 to 22nd. Esmirna Baptist Church We began the month…
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No Cook Thursday
It’s been a long week. And you’re looking ahead to Friday, but not so much to Thursday night. Because even though Thursday means church, Thursday night means rushing around, trying to get dinner fixed before church. Well, with No Cook Thursday, there’s no need to rush! We’ll do the cooking for you, and you’ll get…
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5:20 Volunteers Meeting
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…
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No cook Thursdays!
Tired of rushing home after work on Thursdays to cook a meal? Ever feel like there’s not enough time to cook, get the kids ready, and get to church on time? Well now, we have a solution to that: No cook Thursdays! For children 12 years and younger, the cost is only three dollars, and…
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Top 5 things about Vision for our 5th anniversary #3 and 2
Top 5 things about Vision #3 and 2. Number 3 and two on this list are almost intertwined, so I decided to write a double post on this one. Number 3 on this list is the foundations discipleship courses, and the push for discipleship in this church, and number 2 is the friendly attitude the…
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Top 5 things about vision for our 5th anniversary- #4
Top five things about Vision for our 5th anniversary #4- A heart for the things of God. Throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, it is very obvious that God wants His word to be preached, and His name known all over the earth. God has a passion for His glory and exaltation. And at…
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Special Report: The Flamingos are Here!!
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)…
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Baptisms in the Spanish church
This past Sunday, we had the privilege to have 3 souls baptized, and what’s more exciting, is that it was in another language. Pastor Ronald Tubillas baptized a mother and her daughter, and another man in the church. It is always exciting to see people getting saved and baptized, especially in other languages. It’s almost…
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Celebration Sunday! March 20th
In 2006, Vision Baptist Church became a local, independent Church, started by just a handful of believers determined to change the world for the glory of the Lord Jesus. In the five years that have passed between then and now, God has greatly used this church all over the world. And so, on March 20th,…
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Celebration Sunday: Chili cook off and Dessert bake off!
Celebration Sunday is coming up on March 20th, and Vision Baptist Church will be turning 5 years old! We are planning a spectacular celebration, including a chili cook off and a dessert bake off! For the Chili Cook off, there will be three categories judged: 1-People’s favorite chili 2-Judges favorite chili 3-Spiciest chili For the…
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Keith Shumaker’s Vision for Burkina Faso
As of today, I have been a missionary for about 11 years. God has always taken care of my family and I. He has used His people to do this so many times. I am excited about what God is doing in Burkina Faso and in West Africa. I envision a great revival. Not because…
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Thoughts from a missionary wife…
Melissa Newton is married to Scott Newton, and they are missionaries sent out of Vision Baptist Church on deputation to Barcelona, Spain. Read the blogpost Melissa wrote below about what salvation means to her: So, I have been telling my husband since my last blog post that when I get my own computer, I will…
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Help for the Holts
Dear Vision, This April, Jason Holt and his family will return to the States on Furlough. Jason is a member of Vision and a missionary to Chile. In an effort to relieve some of their set up cost, we are reaching out to the church and asking for help with furnishings in their apartment. Everything…
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Vision Night!
Join us for Vision Night, an exciting time of fellowship where we will look back over all that the Lord has done in the past year and look forward to what He will do in the new one. We want you to be there with us as we talk about upcoming events together, share praises…
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Philip Bassham’s December 2010 Prayer Letter
Deputation update We have been on deputation 3.5 months as of today, and already the Lord has provided about 19% of our needed monthly support. So far, we are right on track to meet our goal of leaving by September of 2012. This past month, we had 4 meetings in North Carolina, 11 here in…
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Scott Newton December 2010 Prayer Letter
Dear Praying Friends, Merry Christmas! I really do love this time of year. There is much that bothers me about it, with the commercialization, the selfishness, and most of all the fact that people try to impose artificial joy into their lives because they feel like they are supposed to. But I love Christmas, because…
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Peru Update from John Pearson
Last night, December 3, 2010 the Seminario Bautista Macedonia (Peru Bible College) had its annual graduation. It is a major event in the ministry calendar in Peru and a very exciting time to be here. It is great to see the pastoral team and catch up with them on things happening in their churches. It…
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David Gardner’s November 2010 Prayer Letter
Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, Wow! Things are very different here in the United States. The weather, the culture, the people. There are so many things that we have grown accustomed to in Peru that we didn’t even realize the type of culture shock that we would go through by returning here. We arrived at…
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Travis Snode November 2010 Prayer Letter
Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, The month of October finished with a week of travel, fellowship, and introducing the life and culture of the British Isles to Chris and Sherry Waye, missionaries on their way to come help us. We took a whirlwind tour of Scotland and England, traveling 1200 miles in a little over…
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Chris Gardner’s November 2010 Prayer Letter
Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, We are back in the States, settling into the apartment, in the basement of my dad’s house, that we are renting from them. We have been in the States for a little over a month, and God has already been opening doors for us to preach. We have only had…
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4 Myths about the Matthew’s Banquet
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…
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Philip Bassham’s October Update
Deputation Update The Lord continues to raise our support for Thailand! We are currently at 10% of our needed monthly support in just two months! We have driven about 8,500 miles and have had opportunity to present the ministry in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida in the last month.
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Men’s Meeting This Thursday!
There will be a men’s meeting held after evening services on Thursday, November 4th. The meeting will start at 8:15 pm, almost directly after the conclusion of the normal preaching service. The men of the church are fully welcomed to attend to discuss the church, and go over some of the finer points of the…
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Survey Trip to Thailand by Philip Bassham
Many have asked the plan for our survey trip to Thailand. So, this is our plan. Why go on a survey trip anyway? 1. Because my eye affecteth mine heart. I know the Gospel, and I have read the stats, talked to people that have been there, and I know Thailand’s fate without the Gospel, but…