Village Student Ministries

Greetings to all,

I hope everyone is having a great week! I hope this cold weather will go on home and stay gone for a while so we can get some good spring time warmth around here. Speaking of warmth, this Wednesday we are going to be meeting at the house at 6:00 pm -7:30 pm. We are asking everyone to bring any old clothes that they do not wear so that we can give them to the Burmese Refugees. We will have the house set up like a Thrift shop and we are asking the students to be the employees. There we will gather all the clothes and sort them out by gender and size. We will pack them up and send them away to those who are in need. We also will have two quest speakers who have had to flee from the Civil War going on in Burma. They will tell us about their own devastation and what God is doing in Burma. I encourage everyone to come to this event. This will be a great time to serve, learn and hang out with each other as we help grow God's Kingdom. I will be looking for you on Wednesday and I hope everyone has a great week!

I'm outta here,

Matthew Phillips

Notes from Our Pastor

Greetings!
We are entering into year two of our capital campaign "Building on Faith, Giving in Joy." For the next several weeks my messages are going to be centered on how we can build on faith and give in joy. We're also going to be blessed by hearing testimonies from Gary Blight, Barry Slayden and others from our church on what VillageChurch means to them and how God's leading them to be a part of this campaign.

What needs to happen for this campaign to be a success? A few things. First, this campaign will be a success as we turn our attention from ourselves to our God. Anytime our focus moves to God we're in line with God's will. Also, this campaign will be a success as we realize that beneifts that come with teamwork! When our church is united behind one cause it's awesome to see what God can do. The great thing is we're going to see what our teamwork with one another and God has brought about as we watch our worship center go up before our very eyes! Finally, VillageChurch needs to pledge and give a certain amount of money for this campaign to be successful. At a bare minimum, we have to raise $75,000. That is a goal I believe we can easily achieve. But our next goal is $100,000. Most churches our size would be pleased to raise this amount of money for the 2nd year of their campaign. I believe this is a goal we can achieve. But our victory goal is $150,000. To reach this goal would be a great blessing to our church. It not only would take care of this year but would give us a head start into next year's campaign. Join with me in praying this campaign will be a success!


Sincerely,

Erik Estep
VillageChurch