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John V. Upton, Executive Director |
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Welcome to the latest 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.
“On Wednesday Night Church Suppers”
You know it’s August when you are eating dinner at home on Wednesday nights. For our church it is the one month that we don’t have Wednesday night meals. I’m actually looking forward to September; we’ve forgotten how to fix meals on Wednesdays. Not only that, Deb and I just sit across the table and look at each other. It is the first time in months we’ve been about to actually focus on the other. Yet, I miss those dinners. I like what the late Harry Golden said about these meals: “The first part of a church they build nowadays is the kitchen. Five hundred years from now, people will dig up these churches, find the steam table and wonder what kind of sacrifices we performed.”
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Join us on a “Voyage To Discovery” at Connect:2006, the BGAV annual meeting, as we chart a course for developing emerging leaders of every age within your church. We meet this year in the beautiful brand new Virginia Beach Convention Center.
Jubilate East is a Church Music Conference sponsored by Pine Lake Music and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Clinicians include Joseph Martin, Craig Courtney, Pepper Choplin, and Milburn Price.
This tour to Minneapolis will feature a variety of experiences for persons who are responsible for designing and casting a vision for Children’s Ministry in their congregations.
Junior High Weekend is designed for students in grades 6-8. The weekend will include: celebrative worship, special interest conferences (targeted directly to the needs of junior high students), recreation and fellowship. In addition, adult leaders will also receive over four hours of youth ministry leadership training.
Set your own agenda for this four day contemplative retreat at CrossRoads Camp and Conference Center. Walk the hills, study, meditate and pray in an atmosphere of solitude guaranteed by a vow of silence from sunrise to sunset.
Since 1998, Transformers! has been an opportunity for adults to be actively engaged in a large group, hands-on mission setting. Each year nearly 150 adults gather for this event. Construction, worship, personal devotions, and fellowship help give this event a flavor that broadens the horizons of those who attend.
This month in our history, on September 25, 1836, 170 years ago, one of the greatest figures in American Baptist history died where he fell in Edgefield, South Carolina. At age 53, Luther Rice had literally exhausted his life in pursuit of his high calling. He did not belong to South Carolina any more than he belonged to Virginia or to his native Massachusetts or to any other of the Eastern Seaboard states. He belonged to all Baptists. Luther Rice, more than any other single individual, rallied the scattered Baptist people into a denominational consciousness, a dedication to missions, and a determination to develop an educated clergy. More... |
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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.
Virginia Baptist Homes
During its meeting in Lynchburg in November 1945, the Baptist General Association of Virginia, voted to approve the establishment of the ministry for the care of senior adults known at that time as Virginia Baptist Home for the Aged, Inc. Today, Virginia Baptist Homes, Inc. operates four continuing care retirement communities: Culpeper Baptist Retirement Community, Inc., (Culpeper) Newport News Baptist Retirement Community, Inc. dba The Chesapeake (Newport News), Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Community, Inc., (Richmond) and The Glebe, Inc. (Roanoke).
The mission of Virginia Baptist Homes, Inc., is to provide “Dignity in Living” ™ for senior adults who reside in the planned services communities (PSC™) owned and managed by Virginia Baptist Homes. Faith based retirement communities are an indispensable part of American society. Their mission nurtures spiritual and creative aspirations, they care for vulnerable people, they protect our cultural heritage, and they foster dignity for residents and their families.
Virginia Baptist Homes Foundation, Inc. was established for the purpose of raising funds in support of the ministry provided through the retirement communities. Sources of funding for our ministry include resident fees, interest earned from our endowments, Cooperative Ministries offering, and charitable contributions. These contributions include bequests, gift annuities, trusts, and contributions from individual donors, corporations and foundations which support our ministry.
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- That the most influential person in the formation of one’s faith is mom? Fathers rank number two, Sunday School teachers number three!
- That recent discoveries in brain studies reveal some interesting facts that impact the way we should teach the Bible?
- That you can double your Sunday School in two years or less by taking five actions?
You can learn more about these facts and much, much more at S3, the Sunday School Summit, to be held September 15-16 at Eagle Eyrie. It’s not too late to register, but you need to do it soon! Get all the details at the Sunday School Connection.
The VBMB Sunday School staff is evaluating leadership development opportunities for Sunday School leaders. Information concerning seasons, times and venues preferences would be most helpful in providing improved services. Please fill out this
brief survey and let us know what you think!
All signs are go. Virginia Baptists are a body of believers who go. When it’s time to go, we can because of the combined giving power of over 1,400 BGAV churches to
Cooperative Missions.
For free downloadable ads for use in your church bulletin, eNewsletter and/or website,
click here.
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