Special Guests this Sunday @ VBC!

We have special guests with us this Sunday: Bill & Penny Ross. Bill is a former pastor of Vinton Baptist Church, who served from 1988 until 2000. During morning worship, he will join Chris and Travis for a panel discussion about our history of missions in India, current initiatives, and opportunities for the future. Please join us for worship at 10:30 AM (Sunday School at 9:15 AM). If you can't join us in person, livestream is available through our app, at www.vintonbaptistchurch.org, and through our Facebook page.

Immediately after worship, the Hostess Committee will hold a reception in the gym for Bill & Penny. There will be light finger foods, and EVERYONE is invited. We will continue the conversation about India missions and have an opportunity to catch up with Bill & Penny.

Deacon Nominations

Deacon nominations are due this Sunday, November 17th for the 3-year term beginning in 2025 and ending in 2027. Please click here to print a nomination form, or pick one up at the Welcome Center. All ballots should be placed in the ballot box at the Welcome Center. Thank you for prayerfully considering your nominations.

Hurricane Relief Supplies

The supplies for the remaining hurricane relief buckets are being purchased (at cost from Ace Hardware) with funds donated by individuals from Grandin Court Baptist, Melrose Baptist, Radiance Community Church, Hope Church, and Vinton Baptist. Our final Pail Packing Party will be next Thursday, November 21st at 6:30 PM at Melrose Baptist. Please come out and help us finish off the final 300+ buckets to meet our 1,000 bucket goal!

JOY Seniors

The final JOY Senior luncheon for 2024 will be Tuesday, November 26th at noon in the gym. Our topic is "Updates to Medicare," presented by Shannon Abell. Shannon always has a lot of great information and goodies. Lunch will be soup/sandwich/dessert/water. Sign up, make your lunch choices, and pay at the JOY Senior table by next Friday, November 22nd. The cost is $12.

Christmas Craft & Vendor Show

This year's Christmas Craft & Vendor Show is scheduled for Sunday, December 1st. Click here for more info, including a vendor registration form. All vendors should have their registration forms and payment returned to Whitney by this Sunday, November 17th.

Folks, please plan to come do your local Christmas shopping with us. We will have more than 20 vendors, many offering unique, one-of-a-kind items. We will also have several local representatives of nationally recognized brands. We will offer a gift wrapping service, as well as concessions. Proceeds of these two services will offset expenses for our summer youth mission trip.

Baptism Sunday: November 24th

Are you interested in being baptized? We're planning another baptism service for November 24th. Please see a minister as soon as possible if you're interested in taking this step in your spiritual journey.

Important Upcoming Dates

• Today is the last fall meeting of Wednesday Women. A new study (The Chosen 4) will begin after the first of the year. Stay tuned for details.
• The last meeting of Weeknight Worship will be NEXT Wednesday, November 20th. We plan to resume Weeknight Worship on February 5, 2025.
• Children's Choirs, Youth Missions Group, and Chancel Choir Rehearsal will continue each Wednesday through December 11th, EXCEPT for November 27th (the night before Thanksgiving), when we will have no activities.
• Travis' Thursday Morning Small Group will have their last weekly meeting November 21st before taking a break for the holidays. During the "break," we will meet twice for discussion AND lunch: December 5th and January 9th at our usual time/place.
• This year's holiday steel drums concert by Panamania, directed by Richard Rudolph, will take place Saturday, December 7th at 3:00 PM in the VBC sanctuary.
• And this year's Christmas Musical will be Sunday, December 15th at 10:30 AM with the Chancel Choir & Orchestra.

Jack Kendrick

1501 Chestnut Mountain Drive

Vinton VA 24179

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Weeknight Worship: 51

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Sunday School: 258 (includes Fall Retreat)

10:30 AM Worship

• in person: 392 (includes Fall Retreat)
• online: 259

Youth Fall Retreat

Our youth had a WONDERFUL time at this year's Fall Retreat at Camp Wilderness Adventure! Thank you for your support and prayers for them while they were away.

Please extend a warm welcome to Evan Spradling, who joined VBC by profession of faith this past Sunday. Evan is scheduled to be baptized November 24th along with a few other baptismal candidates. He is the son of Daniel & Erin Spradling, 1337 Old Nance Farm Trail, Moneta VA 24121. Evan, we are proud of you and your decision to follow Christ!

Children's Basketball

We are now enrolling children for the 2024-25 Children's Basketball Season. Registration forms are due by December 2nd. This year's cost is $55/child. We hope to have a team for every age group, but that will be determined by signups. Our season will begin the first week of January and will run through the first week of March. Please click here for a printable registration form. Or if you want to register and pay online, you may do so at this link: https://subsplash.com/vintonbaptistchurch-va/lb/ev/+vcmz22k.

Bible Reading Plan

We are currently in the book of Hebrews on our Bible Reading Plan. Fee & Stuart (How to Read the Bible Book by Book) explain that this letter was written to a group of people - although we don't know exactly who they were - who were mostly Jewish Christians. Because of their suffering, they were starting to doubt that Jesus was everything he claimed to be; and the author of Hebrews, who is never identified, was writing to bolster their faith. "What drives the argument from beginning to end is the absolute superiority of the Son of God to everything that has gone before.... What concerns the author is the possibility that some believers under present distress will let go of Christ and thus lose out on the Son's saving work and high priestly intercession, and thus their own experience of God's presence...." Included in this argument is an explanation of how Jesus fulfills the royal Psalms, especially Psalms 2 and 110. The exact date of the letter is unknown, although the best guess is between 50 and 69/70 AD. (The temple was destroyed in 70 AD, and Hebrews makes no mention of it, so it is assumed that this letter was probably written prior to the temple being destroyed.) It is a challenging letter for us to understand as modern Gentile believers; try to glean from it what you can. I hope this short introduction helps.

-- Kim

Thanks for the deacon visits and Chris Monroe. I appreciate your kindness while I was in the hospital.

Gloria Carter