John V. Upton, Executive Director

Greetings!

Welcome to the second edition of Advance Notice. We hope that this monthly eNewsletter provides you with relevant, useful information and resources. All of the contents are for your use. Please feel free to use the information and illustrations in sermons, in newsletters, church bulletins, and on your website. Additionally, you can easily forward it on to your church leaders and members so they can be connected to resources and information that enable the Baptist General Association of Virginia churches to advance the Redeemer’s Kingdom.

“What It Means to Worship: The Word”

Recently, I have been focused on the different movements of worship and have offered my insights related to praise, prayer and offering (click here for those articles). As a result, I have had some ask if I would eventually address preaching. Well, this not about preaching, per se. It is about...  More...
 

Last call for this annual leadership training and inspiration event in the beautiful mountain setting of Eagle Eyrie. Don’t miss out!

SMC is a great annual tradition that gets better each year! Children who completed grades 4-8 in 2006 can join the fun.

Don’t think you have enough children or youth to participate in a mission trip? Don’t know the hows & wheres of mission trip planning? Consider participating in Missions Connection (formerly Family Missions Week) July 10-14 at Eagle Eyrie.
 

On the 2nd day of May in 1826, exactly 180 years ago this month in our history, one of the greatest figures in Baptist life was ordained to the Gospel ministry at Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Charlotte County, Virginia.  His name was James B. Taylor. More...
 

We’re all looking for where to fill up these days. If we’re going to get anywhere, we must have fuel to power the engine. Now, more than ever, it comes with a high price but we will pay the cost. Cooperative Missions is the fuel that helps power the Virginia Baptist engine. Cooperative Missions puts us on the road to respond to disaster relief calls; on the road to respond to communities wanting new churches; on the road to assist and develop church leaders; on the road to respond to His call. In filling our spiritual tanks, we remember that Christ paid the ultimate cost. As Virginia Baptists we are able to fill up and go through the combined giving power of over 1,400 Baptist General Association of Virginia churches to Cooperative Missions.

For free downloadable ads for use in your church bulletin, eNewsletter and website, click here.

Each issue we feature one of our Baptist General Association of Virginia partners. Our desire is to help each reader to understand what encompasses this entity we call the Baptist General Association of Virginia.

This month we feature the Virginia Baptist Foundation, Inc.

Focused on Charitable Gift Planning Through Care and Relationship

The Virginia Baptist Foundation is the chartered trust agency of Virginia Baptists in the areas of church related financial and estate planning, wills and trust fund management. Types of funds under management include church cemetery, scholarship, mission and endowment funds, life income plans, annuities, charitable trust agreements and several other financial and estate planning vehicles. With a multi-million dollar principal asset value under management, the Virginia Baptist Foundation is in a position of strength to assist Virginia Baptist individuals, churches, agencies, and programs with the investment and management of church-related giving. More...

• That the brand-new “Virginia Baptist Mobile Kitchen” has already been in use in Hungary to provide hot meals to flood evacuees and those working on the dams and helping the flood victims?
• That the deacons of First Baptist Church of Alexandria, along with Cooperative Missions gifts, provided the funding for the mobile kitchen?
• That MALEV Hungarian Airlines and Hungarian Baptist Aid entered into strategic partnership early April? As part of the press conference HBAid introduced the Mobile Kitchen to the Hungarian TVs, radios and newspapers as a special donation by Virginia Baptists.
• That your church can find great missions opportunities in partnership through the Virginia Baptist Mission Board?

Click here for the Glocal Missions web page to find opportunities for service.

• Church Musicians Salary and Benefits Survey: Many Churches and Personnel Committees have requested that we provide them with a current means of evaluating the salaries and benefits that are paid to both full-time and part-time Ministers of Music, Worship Leaders, Choir Directors, Directors of Music, Organists, Pianists, and other music staff.
  
  This survey will generate real information for churches to better evaluate how they are supporting those church musicians that serve them.
   
• New Website!
  
  Visit the new Sunday School Connection site at www.ssconnection.net for information and resources that are an added plus for your Sunday School.

As always, we want to hear from you with your feedback. How can we better communicate with you? How can we better serve you? Let us know your thoughts by sending an e-mail to Paige Peak at paige.peak@vbmb.org.