This Sunday @ VBC

This Sunday our 2024 Youth Mission Trip participants will depart from VBC around 9:00 AM, headed for Dinwiddie, Virginia, where they will perform home repairs in rural and semi-urban areas. They will return around noon on Saturday, June 29th. Please keep our youth and chaperones in your prayers as they prepare for this week of service!

Please join us Sunday as Travis continues his sermon series in Psalms. This week's sermon is "A Light" and is based in Psalm 27. Worship begins at 10:30 AM (Sunday School at 9:15 AM). If you cannot join us in person, you can livestream our service at www.vintonbaptistchurch.org or through our app. Our livestream on Facebook appears to be working now, but remember that it is now accessible only through our regular FB page (not our group page); click here to utilize FB.

VBS Info:

This year's VBS is Sunday, July 14th - Thursday, July 18th, and our theme is Scuba: Diving into Friendship with God! The hours are 5:30 - 8:30 PM daily. Children as young as age 3 are invited to participate, and our program is open to those entering PreK - 6th grade this fall. CLICK HERE to register! Please spread the word to your family, neighbors, and friends. They can register through our website (www.vintonbaptistchurch.org) or through our Facebook event. Volunteers can register using the same link.

Also, the VBS donation table is located by the Welcome Center. Please pick up a fish (or two), purchase the items listed on your fish, and return them by the date indicated. Thank you to all who have already returned donations!

There will be a VBS Volunteer Meeting Sunday, July 7th at noon in the gym. If you have signed up to volunteer, please plan to attend. If you think you may want to volunteer but need more info, see Jessie Burgess.

Summer Youth Event

Tonight the youth who have registered will meet at VBC at 5:30 PM to head to the Salem Red Sox stadium, which is a cashless/clear bag venue. See our website for the full list of summer Youth events and outings.

Attention: Chancel Choir Members

Next Wednesday, June 26th the Chancel Choir will rehearse at 7:00 PM in the choir room. Please join us to rehearse anthems for July.

JOY Seniors Schedule

This Sunday, June 23rd is the last day to sign up for our June 25th luncheon at noon in the gym. Lunch will be a chicken salad croissant, pasta salad, fruit salad, dessert, and water for $12/person. Entertainment will be provided by The Virginians Quartet, a four-part harmony gospel group with piano and bass guitar accompaniment. Please sign up and pay at the JOY Senior table. If you want to enjoy the music and skip lunch, there is no charge; however, we ask that you sign up (and notate "program only") at the JOY Senior table by Sunday so that we will have enough seating.

If you signed up for the Rock Church trip Saturday, June 29th, please note that departure is at 7:30 AM; our expected return is 7:00 PM. Lunch, dinner, and all admissions are included in the price you've paid.

We have had such a great response to the Sight & Sound/Philadelphia/Baltimore trip scheduled for September 24th - 26th that we have secured a second bus; sign-ups are open again. See all the details at the JOY Senior table. The deadline to sign up and pay is Tuesday, August 20th.

Are you up for a little adventure and lots of fellowship? The JOY Senior Mystery Trip Thursday, July 25th will offer both. The cost is $99 and includes 3 meals and all admissions. We will depart VBC at 7:00 AM and return at 8:00 PM. Please sign up at the JOY Senior table.

Save the Date: 5th Sunday Luncheon

Please mark your calendars for June 30th, when we will have a 5th Sunday Luncheon after morning worship! Pok-E-Joe's is on the menu! There is no charge; everyone is welcome to stay and eat with us after worship.

Anita Reynolds

Pheasant Ridge Nursing & Rehab.

Room 407

4355 Pheasant Ridge Road

Roanoke VA 24014

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Sunday School: 187

10:30 AM Worship:

• 281 in person
• 179 online

Thank you to the Helen Siner Wood Circle for their donation to Vacation Bible School.

CBF Offering for Global Missions

The WMU invites you to contribute to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) Offering for Global Missions. One hundred percent of these funds support the long-term presence (salary, benefits, and housing) of CBF field personnel in the US and around the world. There are currently 48 field personnel in 17 countries, enabling them to bear witness to Jesus Christ, cultivate beloved community, and seek transformational development. There are yellow envelopes in your box of offering envelopes for this fund; however, we do not have envelopes for the pews. Please simply mark your gifts payable to Vinton Baptist and notate "CBF Offering for Global Missions." Our church goal is $2,200.

Four on the 4th

If you want to support Boys & Girls Club through their annual Four on the 4th run/walk this Independence Day, please click here for all the details and to sign up! Also, we need some folks on July 3rd to prepare watermelon for this event; if you can help, please call the church office at 540-343-7685.

Christian sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Bonnie Short Hartsel, who passed away June 13th; to Jack Kendrick and family in the death of his wife, Velma, on June 14th; to Esta & Etta Wolfe and daughter Penny in the death of Penny's husband, Ron Dellis, on June 14th; to Valerie & Matthew Thomas and family in the death of her grandmother, Betty Williams; to the family and friends of Chris Teague Chattin Moore, who passed away June 16th; and to the family and friends of Jimmy Burke, who passed away June 17th.

Congratulations to the Lovelace Scholarship

& Stovall-Page Scholarship Recipients!

Elizabeth (Liz) Dixon and Claire Glover are the 2024 recipients of the Dr. Charlie J. (Jay) Lovelace, III Memorial College Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 each. They are also the 2024 recipients of the Stovall-Page Scholarship in the amount of $500 each. Liz and Claire were both recognized as recipients of these scholarships at William Byrd High School April 25th, as well as in our graduate recognition service May 19th. Liz will attend Virginia Tech to pursue a degree in Engineering. Claire will attend University of Virginia to study Kinesiology.

We honor Liz and Claire for their academic achievements and for their service to their school, community, church, and families. Our warmest congratulations on a job well done!

Keystone Paper Drive

The annual Keystone Paper Drive, which is sponsored by the JOY Seniors, will run the entire month of July. Please consider donating paper goods such as paper towels, toilet paper, plates, bowls, napkins, etc. Collection boxes will be located in the Welcome Center and the lobby of the New Ministries Building beginning Sunday, June 30th.

Community Assistance Fund

The Community Assistance Fund is designed to assist non-members in the greater Roanoke area with rent/mortgage, utilities, heating fuel, medical bills, and similar expenses that they are having trouble paying. This fund is sustained entirely by donations; it is not a budgeted item. When we have funds, we are able to fulfill requests. When the account is depleted, we simply turn individuals/families away. Unfortunately, we have had to turn a number of people away over the past couple of months, as we only have $72.12 in that fund. We are thankful for those who have chosen to give to Community Assistance in the past. If you are interested in giving now, please make payment (by check, cash, or online) to VBC and notate that it is for the "Community Assistance Fund." Thank you!

Bible Reading Plan

Today is the first day of reading in Luke, and this gospel promises to be engaging. Fee & Stuart state, "If Mark is one of those who cannot tell a story badly, Luke is the one who can tell it to perfection." They explain that Luke has traditionally been known as the author of this gospel and that he is "the only Gentile author in the Bible." They also emphasize the continuity between the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts; they are to be understood as two parts of a whole. There is no consensus on the exact date of Luke's gospel; it could be sometime before 64 A.D. or possibly after 70 A.D.

Following is a brief summary from Fee & Stuart of Luke's contributions to the New Testament: "Luke's primary concern (in both parts) is with the story of salvation - God's salvation of 'Israel,' with its promised inclusion of the Gentiles. Salvation for Luke means God's acceptance and forgiveness of sinners, which, picking up an Old Testament theme, is especially expressed as 'good news to the poor' ... - all those who have been marginalized by society at large and especially by the religious power brokers. They are the 'lost' (19:10) and include wealthy tax collectors (19:1-9), 'the [economically] poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind' (14:13; cf. 16:19-31), a Samaritan (17:11-19; cf. 10:25-37), and women (7:36-50 ...). Be looking for these as you read. It also includes the Gentiles, but that dimension of the story is reserved for Acts. Thus in part 1 {Luke} the universalizing of salvation is vertical, covering every strata of society within Israel; in part 2 {Acts} it is horizontal, focusing especially on the Gentiles and the march of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome."

Fee & Stuart also note that both Isaiah and Psalms are particularly important in the context of Luke's writing and that he emphasizes both the temple and the Holy Spirit. I hope you're enjoying the New Testament so far; I love hearing your feedback!

-- Kim

Please note that a copy of Dr. Travis Russell's doctoral thesis, "Faith Formations at Home," will be available in the VBC Library for anyone who would like to read it. Our librarian, Barbara Slusher, will be glad to assist you.

New books in the Library:

• The Broker & the Bum by Brady Cook
• The Sisters of Corinth by Angela Hunt
• When We Move to Heaven by Linda Street
• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer

Vinton Baptist Church,

Thank you all so much for the cards, visits, prayers, and support during our mother's recent illness and passing. She loved her church and was grateful to be part of such a loving church family.

Kari, David, & Erin Taylor and Lisa Mayhew (the family of Linda Mayhew)