All Wednesday evening activities resume tonight:

• 6:15 PM Children's Choirs
• 6:15 PM Youth Missions Group
• 6:30 PM Weeknight Worship
• 7:30 PM Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Hope to see you tonight!

This Sunday @ VBC

We would love to have you join us for Sunday School this week, which starts at 9:15 AM. Please click here for our Sunday School brochure. All young adults (18 - 28ish) are invited to join us at RND Coffee at 9:00 AM for our small group; this includes high school seniors who have turned 18.

We hope you can join us Sunday morning at 10:30 AM for morning worship as we continue our Lenten study. This week's sermon is "Tow Truck Man," and the scripture is Hebrews 9:11-14. Because it is the first Sunday of April, we will observe the Lord's Supper. We will pass communion plates for the first time since COVID began (see details below). If you can't join us in the sanctuary for worship, please do so through livestream at www.vintonbaptistchurch.org or through our Facebook page.

If you signed up for our Pancake Brunch Fundraiser for Passport Kids Camp, your meal(s) will be ready in the kitchen when morning worship ends. THANK YOU for supporting our Preteens who are preparing to head to camp this summer!

There will also be a Deacons Meeting at 12 PM, Chancel Choir Rehearsal at 6 PM, and all our usual Sunday afternoon/evening activities in between!

Homebound Easter Packages

If you signed up to deliver a Homebound Easter Package, it will be ready for you by this Sunday. Thank you for your willingness to visit and encourage our homebound folks!

RightNow Media

We’ve purchased unlimited access to thousands of Christian videos and are giving free access to everyone in our church. If you have not received an email invitation to RightNow Media, click here to get signed up, download the app that’s appropriate for your device, and start browsing today!

Invite your friends, family, and neighbors for our

special service on Palm Sunday, April 13th:

Bunny Buddies Bash

Fun & the Son will celebrate Easter with all their buddies on Monday, April 14th, 9:30 - 11:00 AM! We will have games, a festive brunch, and the VERY popular egg hunt in the sanctuary! BYOB (Bring Your Own Basket) and join us for some fun! This event is open to all newborns - PreK children and their adults. See Betty Jo Overstreet with any questions.

BBQ Lunch Fundraiser

Plan to join us Sunday, April 27th for a BBQ luncheon, with all proceeds benefiting the youth's summer trip to Converse University for Passport Youth Camp. The cost is $15/plate, which includes a sandwich, drink, chips, coleslaw, and cookie. You are welcome to eat with us in the gym or schedule your meal for takeout. Please sign up at the Welcome Center or by clicking here. Please plan to pay at the door by cash or check (made payable to Vinton Baptist, with "BBQ lunch" notated in the memo line). Thank you for your support!

Upcoming JOY Senior Events

April Senior Breakout: On April 29th, we'll have a Senior Breakout with lunch at Liberty Station. You are welcome to drive or sign up to ride the bus (until it is full). Departure is 10:45 AM. Your cost is only what you spend.

VWCC Arboretum and Plant Sale: We are adding a day trip on Saturday, May 3rd to Virginia Western's Arboretum and plant sale with lunch afterward. We will depart at 9:00 AM (notice earlier departure time than previously published), and your only cost is what you spend. Please sign up at the JOY Senior table.

Passport Summer Youth Camp

Youth, mark your calendars for June 22nd - 27th, when we will attend Passport Summer Camp at Converse University in Spartanburg, SC! The cost for the trip is $325/person. A deposit of $125 is due by April 15th, and the balance is due May 15th. Click here for ALL the details, and see Whitney if you have any questions!

Messengers Needed to Represent VBC

The RVBA Spring Associational Meeting is Tuesday, April 29th at 6:30 PM at Bonsack Baptist Church, and we need several volunteers who are able to attend and who would represent Vinton Baptist as messengers. If you are available, please contact Patsy Talbert in the church office at 540-343-7685. Thank you!

Vacation Bible School

True North

July 14th - 18th

 5:30 - 8:30 PM

CLICK HERE to register as a participant or volunteer!

Gordon Welsh

c/o Harmony Assisted Living

4402 Pheasant Ridge Road #110

Roanoke VA 24014

Happy birthday and congratulations to Pat Barton, who will turn 90 years old next Wednesday, April 9th.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025:

• Children's Choirs: N/A
• Youth Missions Group: N/A
• Weeknight Worship: N/A
• Chancel Choir: 40

Sunday, March 30, 2025:

Sunday School: 190

10:30 AM Worship

• in person: 296
• online: 244

Thank you to the Open Door Sunday School class for their donation to the Food Pantry.

Thank you to the LOA Sunday School class for their donation to Homebound Easter Packages.

Thank you to the Dorcas Sunday School class for their donation to Vacation Bible School.

Thank you to the Open Door Sunday School class for their donations to Passport Kids Camp and Passport Youth Camp.

Christian sympathy is extended to Terrie Bigler and family in the death of her sister, Carolyn Murphy, on March 28th.

Congratulations to Ruth Roe on the birth of another great-grandchild, Henry Jackson Hurt, on February 21st. Henry is the son of Ryan & Isabel Hurt and grandson of Dexter & Linda Graybeal Hurt.

Observing Communion

It has been five years since the COVID pandemic began, and five years that we have been observing the Lord's Supper using prepackaged elements. At the request of our Deacons, this Sunday we will begin passing communion trays again. Communion elements will be hygienically prepared by our Communion Committee using juice cups that have a built-in pocket for bread. Therefore, communion trays will only need to be passed once, and there will be no other hands touching your bread. Both the bread and juice will be contained in a single cup that you can pick up from the tray as it is passed. Trays will also include pre-packaged communion elements for those who prefer to use them.

We are scheduled to participate in communion on several occasions in April due to the observance of Holy Week/Easter. While we will use special cups and pass the trays this Sunday, we will continue to use pre-packaged elements on other occasions in order to maximize our time together and minimize the demands on our Communion Committee and Deacons.

Annie Armstrong Offering for North American Missions

We are getting closer and closer to our Annie Armstrong Easter Offering church goal of $2,450, which supports missionary efforts across the United States and Canada. We are currently about $350 short. Will you help us meet our goal? There are special envelopes in your box of envelopes and also in the pew pockets in the sanctuary. You may also give online and designate your gift for Annie Armstrong. Thank you to everyone who has already supported this effort!

Bible Reading Plan

Congratulations! You made it through Leviticus! Now, welcome to Numbers.

A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament (Birch, Brueggemann, Fretheim, & Petersen) characterizes Numbers as a bridge between Leviticus and Deuteronomy, in which the Israelites who were rescued from Egypt (including Miriam, Aaron, and Moses) all die during the wanderings in the wilderness, and the subsequent generation is prepared by God to enter the Promised Land. The only "original" Israelites from Egypt that actually enter the Promised Land are Caleb and Joshua. Following is their general description of this book:

The book of Numbers, named for its census lists, is the most complex of the Pentateuchal books. Various types of literature are represented - lists, itineraries, various statutes, ritual and priestly prescriptions, poetic oracles, wilderness stories, and even a well-known benediction (6:22-27). Laws are integrated into each stage of the story; they provide for an ongoing ordering of the community as it meets new situations. The positive opening and closing sections of the book enclose a sharply negative picture.

Moreover, some Numbers texts border on the bizarre, with talking donkeys, curses from a non-Israelite diviner turned into blessings that have messianic implications, the earth swallowing up people, bronze snakes with healing powers, an almond-producing rod, an execution for picking up sticks on the sabbath, Miriam turning leprous, repulsive instructions for discerning a wife's fidelity, and a judgment on Moses for very obscure reasons. (...) To complicate these matters, God is often depicted in ways that challenge traditional understandings ....

All of this is what we have to look forward to as we start Numbers. I hope you'll stick with us and share your thoughts as we work our way through this book together.

-- Kim

Open Position: Minister of Children & Families

Please see our website at vintonbaptistchurch.org for details on this position and how to submit your resume.

"Check out" these new books in the library!

• Once Upon Nantucket by Irene Hannon (Lighthouse Lane #1)
• The Sisters of Sea View by Julie Klassen (On Devonshire Shores #1)
• Ambush by Colleen Coble (Sanctuary #1)
• The Daughter of Rome by Angela Hunt (The Emissaries #3)
• Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody Carlson
• Cornered (three suspense novellas)

These books were purchased with donations from Carrie Tolley and Charlie & Carolee Lovelace. Thank you!!

Church Office Hours Next Week

Due to vacation schedules, the church office will close at 4 PM next Tuesday through Thursday, April 8th - 10th. Thanks for your understanding.