Today we remember.

Wednesday Night Activities Resume TONIGHT!

• At 6:15 PM our Children's Choirs will resume for the 2024-25 school year. There are choirs for PreK - 5th graders.
• Youth (6th - 12th graders) are invited to Youth Missions Group at 6:15 PM. Meet at the church. Tonight we'll head out to Keystone Community Center.
• Weeknight Worship begins at 6:30 PM. Our Wednesday study is different from our Sunday sermon series this year. We will dive deep into the Old Testament, exploring a key Bible verse each week from some of the most important Old Testament stories that set the stage for the life and ministry of Jesus as revealed in the New Testament. Tonight's study is titled "Who Am I?" and focuses on Genesis 1:27.
• Nursery is available from 6:15 until 7:30 PM.
• Chancel Choir rehearsal begins at 7:30 PM.

We hope you'll come out tonight as we kick off a new year of events. Invite a friend!

This Sunday @ VBC

We hope you'll join us for Sunday School at 9:15 AM. We have classes for newborns and up! Click here for our current Sunday School brochure. Reminder: Walk with Jesus begins this Sunday during the Sunday School hour for 3rd - 5th graders who have sign up.

Morning worship begins at 10:30 AM. Travis is back this week and will be starting a new sermon series. This week's message is "Scarcity Loop," and the scripture is Exodus 16:13-21. If you can't join us in person, livestream is available through our app, at www.vintonbaptistchurch.org, and through our Facebook page.

Following is our Sunday schedule this week:

• The first Youth Choir rehearsal of the 2024-25 school year is at 11:45 AM.
• We hope you'll come out and join us for a church-wide Ice Cream Social in the gym at 4:15 PM.
• Ministry Matters takes place in the gym at 5:00 PM.
• Art from the Heart & Mission Kids is at 5:00 PM in the small dining room for Kindergarten - 5th graders.
• Handbells rehearsal is at 5:00 PM.
• At 6:00 PM, we will have our Youth Parent/Student Kickoff.
• Weeknight Worship rehearsal is also at 6:00 PM.

Thursday Morning Small Group

Travis' Thursday Morning Small Group begins tomorrow, September 12th at 10:00 AM in the small dining room. At 11:00 AM we'll move our conversation over to Pok-E-Joe's. All adults are welcome. No topic is off limits!

September Preteens Event

The Preteens will have Dinner & Devo Sunday, September 22nd in the preteen room, 4:00 - 6:00 PM. All 3rd - 5th graders are welcome!

Wednesday Women Bible Study

Wednesday Women with Susan Jones is back!! Ladies, mark your calendars for 10 AM - noon each Wednesday from September 25th through November 13th. We will meet in the Disciple Center to study The Chosen 3: The Way of the Chosen. A sign-up sheet is available in the church office; call 540-343-7685 to sign up. Study guides can be purchased on Amazon or Christianbook. If you cannot purchase one yourself, the church will place an order on September 18th. Call Susan at 540-580-8559 with questions.

Operation Reach Out is Back!

Operation Reach Out is ON for 2024!! We will gather the morning of October 19th from 9 AM until noon to minister to our community through a number of projects. Please click here for the registration form, which includes a list of our projects. We will offer both breakfast (8:30 AM) and lunch (12:30 PM). And you have the option of purchasing a t-shirt. Please note that children as young as 3 years old are invited to participate. Please print and complete the registration form (copies are also be available at the church) and return it to Whitney as soon as possible (no later than September 25th). Questions? Contact Whitney.

Fifth Sunday Potluck Luncheon

Plan to join us Sunday, September 29th after morning worship for a potluck luncheon in the gym! Chicken and drinks will be provided. Please bring side dishes and/or desserts.

Sunday, September 29th: Adult Choir Concert

We will be joining with Melrose Baptist for a combined concert of choral favorites on September 29th at 6:30 PM. The program contains some favorite selections of the conductors, such as “Wonderful Grace of Jesus,” “When I Survey,” “Down to the River to Pray,” and "Because He Lives.” Please mark the date on your calendar and plan to attend.

If you're interested in singing with us, plan to attend Chancel Choir rehearsals starting tonight. There will also be two rehearsals dedicated to this specific program: 1) Thursday evening, September 26th at 7:00 PM and 2) Sunday, September 29th at 4:00 PM.

JOY Seniors Schedule

Join us for a lunch/theater trip to Wohlfahrt Haus for the viewing of "Christmas in the Park" on Saturday, November 9th. The cost of this trip is $70/person and includes dinner, the play, and a tip. The deadline to sign up and pay is Sunday, October 6th. When signing up, please indicate whether you are riding the bus or driving.

Are you ready for a fun fall trip? On October 15th the JOY Seniors will take their annual fall trip to Fincastle, to include Heritage Market, Ikenberry Orchards, and a new location - Scripture Truth Book Company - concluding with lunch at Cracker Barrel. The only cost to this trip is what you spend. The bus is full at 37 passengers (including the driver), but you can drive. Join the fun and fellowship by signing up at the JOY Senior table.

Youth Choir Fundraisers

Thanks to all who came out and supported the first of three dinners to help raise funds for the Youth Choir Mission Tour for 2025! Our next dinner will be October 6th immediately following morning worship. Eat-in and take-out options are available (you will fix your own). Our menu is baked potato bar and salad bar with all the fixings! $10/person. Please sign up in the church office or at the Welcome Center by Wednesday, October 2nd.

Verlie Hall

1009 Ruddell Road

Vinton VA 24179

Christian sympathy is extended to Brian & Beth Wickline and family in the death of her aunt, Mary Nunley, in Statesville, NC.

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Sunday School: 181

10:30 AM Worship

• in person: 288
• online: 192

Thank you to the Dorcas Sunday School class for their donations to Operation Christmas Child Postage and College Care Packages Postage.

Proposed Budget

Click here to view the proposed budget for our next fiscal year. It will be officially presented and discussed at this Sunday's Ministry Matters meeting.

Alma Hunt Offering for Virginia Missions

The WMU invites you to contribute to the Alma Hunt State Missions Offering; our church goal is $2,200. This project is a joint effort of the Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia (WMUV) and the BGAV. These funds are used to help with disaster relief, youth projects, missions funding for churches, camping opportunities for children, leadership development opportunities, etc. More info can be found at almahunt.org. Special envelopes for this fund are in your box of church envelopes (they specify "state missions") and also in the church pews. Thanks in advance for helping us meet our goal.

College Care Packages

This Sunday, September 15th is the deadline for donating items to college care packages for our undergraduate students. We need Slim Jims, small packs of jerky, gummies, hard candy, gum, hot chocolate packets, Fruit Rollups & Gushers, small packs of Pringles and popcorn, individual packs of Cheez-Its, and sharpies/pens. NO peanut products, please. You can drop items in the marked bin at the Missions Tables. Monetary donations can assist with the cost of mailing care packages; please mark your gift to VBC with the memo "college care packages."

Note to parents of undergrad students: please call Patsy in the church office (540-343-7685) or email Joanna Harman ASAP with your student's name and current address. We want to make sure that we include everyone, and we want to fully update our list of students.

Operation Christmas Child

Our Operation Christmas Child volunteers are gearing up for this shoebox season! We are wrapping shoeboxes Wednesdays and Fridays, 10:00 AM - noon in room 109 of the New Ministries Building. Anyone is welcome to drop in and help. If you have empty shoeboxes to donate please drop them at the Missions Tables at the church, or contact Darlene McCaskill (540-890-6748) so that she can arrange to pick them up. We are also collecting items to go in the shoeboxes (small toys, combs, washcloths, toothbrushes, school supplies, socks, sunglasses, etc.) at the Missions Tables. Questions? Contact Darlene.

Bible Reading Plan

There is a great deal of info packed into these few chapters of 1 Corinthians. Fee & Stuart share some orienting info about this book that may help as you continue to read. Following is an excerpt directly from How to Read the Bible Book by Book:

"The primary place where he [Paul] and they [the Corinthian church] are at odds is over the question of being spiritual - what it means to be a person of the Spirit. This surfaces most sharply in chapters 12-15, where they apparently believe that speaking in tongues is to speak the language of angels (13:1) - they have thus already arrived at the ultimate state of spirituality, so much so that some of them have no use for a bodily resurrection (6:13-14; 15:12). This has also led to a triumphalist view of life in the present. Full of 'wisdom' by the Spirit, they see Paul's weaknesses as evidence of a lesser spirituality (4:6-21). In such a view there is no room for the life of the cross. Hence the ease whereby they reject Paul's view on so many issues. Very likely their spirituality also lends itself to their low view of bodily activities (meaning they can indulge or be ascetic at will) so that some are even arguing against sexual life in marriage (7:1-7), and the traditional head coverings are being cast aside 'because of the angels' (11:3-16, esp. v. 10).

Paul's basic response to all of this is to remind them that the gospel has a crucified Messiah, risen from the dead, at its very heart, and thus he bookends the letter with these two basic theological realities (the cross, 1:17-2:16; the resurrection, 15:1-58). Everything else in the letter must be understood in light of these; indeed, the most crucial role of the Spirit is to reveal the cross as the key to God's wisdom (2:6-16)."

Blessing Box Donations

The following are needed for the Blessing Box: peanut butter, soups (any kind), muffin mixes. Please drop donations in the marked bin at the Missions Tables. Thank you!

Trunk-or-Treat

This year Trunk-or-Treat falls on Wednesday, October 30th. We've already begun collecting bags of candy. They can be dropped off in the black tub at the Missions Tables. More details about Trunk-or-Treat will be available soon. Thanks for your help supplying goodies!