The only activities tonight are Steel Drums rehearsal at 6:00 PM and Chancel Choir rehearsal at 7:00 PM. Enjoy your evening!

This Sunday @ VBC

This Sunday is Mother's Day, and we will be celebrating all mothers - those who are related to us by blood, by adoption, and by the Spirit. We will also continue in the new sermon series on Sabbath. The message is "A Mindset," and the scripture is Romans 8:5-6.

Prior to morning worship, we will have Sunday School at 9:15 AM, as usual. If you are not yet plugged into a Sunday School class, please let us help you find one to attend. You can click here for our updated Sunday School brochure.

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.

Graduate Info Needed

Graduate Recognition Sunday is May 18th. If you or someone in your family is graduating from high school, college, grad school, or technical school this year, please email kim@vintonbaptistchurch.org or call the church office at 540-343-7685 to let us know the following: name of graduate, school, any special honors, type of degree, future plans, and whether they will be able to attend worship May 18th. If your graduate cannot attend May 18th, we would still like to have their information so that we can recognize them in The Witness. If your graduate will attend on Graduate Sunday, they should wear their graduation regalia and meet Whitney Russell in the church library at 10:00 AM on May 18th.

Senior Bibles

Bibles for our high school seniors are now available in the Welcome Center for you to write notes of affirmation and/or highlight your favorite verses. There are a lot of Bibles! So please plan time in your schedule to visit the Welcome Center after services or during church hours (9 AM - 5 PM weekdays) to write your notes of encouragement and blessing for our graduating high school students before Graduate Sunday.

Upcoming JOY Senior Events

The May JOY Senior luncheon will be Tuesday, May 20th in the church gym. We will enjoy entertainment from The Brothers Young, who will perform jazz selections this year. Our lunch will come from Three Lil' Pigs BBQ. Please sign up at the JOY Senior table by Sunday, May 18th. You can also choose to bring your own lunch, or you can skip lunch and arrive about 12:30 PM to enjoy the music. Either way, we look forward to the opportunity to fellowship together.

Ministry Matters Upcoming Meeting

Please mark your calendars for our next Ministry Matters meeting, which is scheduled for 5:00 PM Sunday, June 1st in the gym.

Vacation Bible School

True North

July 14th - 18th

 5:30 - 8:30 PM

CLICK HERE to register as a participant or volunteer!

We have created an Amazon wish list for VBS supplies. If you would like to provide needed supplies, please click here. Items will automatically ship to Vinton Baptist unless you change the shipping address. If you prefer not to shop online, stop by the church office and we can give you a list of needed items. Thank you for your help!

Audrey Ferguson

3120 Richard Avenue NE

Roanoke VA 24012

Wednesday, April 30, 2025:

• Children's Choirs: 33
• Youth Missions Group: 18
• Weeknight Worship: 37
• Chancel Choir: 22

Sunday, May 4, 2025:

Sunday School: 193

10:30 AM Worship

• in person: 382
• online: 400

Thank you to the Fellowship/Berean Sunday School class for their donation to the General Fund.

Thank you to the LOA Sunday School class for their donations to Vacation Bible School, the Youth Choir Tour, Passport Youth Camp, and Passport Kids Camp.

Associational Missions Offering

You will find in your box of giving envelopes an envelope dated for May that is marked for Associational Missions Offering (aka Annie Mae Broyles Offering for Associational Missions). There are also envelopes in the hymnal pew pockets in the sanctuary. Annie Mae Broyles was the first Missionary Director of the first Baptist Mission Center operated by the Roanoke Valley Baptist Association. All Associational Missions Offerings are utilized for local ministries, including Friendship House, Keystone Community Center, Solomon's Mission, Christian Soldiers Food Pantry, and RVBA Mission Requests. Our church goal for this offering is $2,200. Please consider giving to help folks in our own backyard.

Right Now Media

Now that our Wednesday evening programming has ended for this season, we want to remind you that you can take digital spiritual formation resources with you on the go! Just click here to set up a free account with Right Now Media, and explore the adult, youth, and children's programming available 24/7. Sign up today!

Open Position: Minister of Children & Families

Please see our website at vintonbaptistchurch.org for details on this position and how to submit your resume. Feel free to share this job opportunity with your friends and family.

Bible Reading Plan

"Deuteronomy is both an ending and a beginning. it recalls the ancestral promises and the Exodus deliverance, retells events experienced by the people at Sinai and in the wilderness, and looks forward to the time in the promised land (and beyond)," states one source on the Old Testament (A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament, Birch, Brueggemann, Fretheim, & Petersen).

Another source explains:

"The book of Deuteronomy is organized into three extended speeches of Moses, together with a concluding section that is constituted by two poems and a concluding narrative in Deuteronomy 32-34. The speeches of Moses are narratively situated at the Jordan, purporting to be Moses' 'final instructions' for Israel as Israel enters the land of promise. The ostensive purpose of the instruction is to warn Israel about the seductions of the land of Canaan and to urge Israel to adhere to its peculiar identity as YHWH's chosen people. In the rhetorical form of warning and urging, this tradition of Mosaic instruction contains some of the richest, most important, and most eloquent theological interpretation in the entire Old Testament" (An Introduction to the Old Testament, Water Brueggemann).

Deuteronomy - or part of it - is believed to be the "Book of the Law" that King Josiah's workers later found in the temple in 2 Kings 22. The first few chapters recount the exodus from Egypt and the Israelite wanderings up until they are ready to enter the Promised Land. Moses is the speaker when the book begins (1:1), and it is the death of Moses that wraps up the book (34:5). The final verses of chapter 34 are a memorial to him.

Deuteronomy is the final book in the Pentateuch. Once we finish it at the end of this month, we will skip over to Psalms and work our way through these Israelite songs over the course of the summer. Happy reading!

-- Kim

Kroger Community Rewards

Do you shop at Kroger? Do you have a Kroger Shopper's Card? Then you can arrange to have a portion of your Kroger purchases donated to Vinton Baptist Church at no extra cost to you. Create or log into your Kroger account, and select Vinton Baptist Church as the beneficiary of your purchases. Just follow the directions located here. If you need help, call the church office at 540-343-7685.

Last quarter, we received a total donation of $380.75 from Kroger through this program. The more folks who participate, the higher that number can go. Thanks for your support!

Please note that, due to vacation schedules, The Witness will NOT be published on June 4th.