Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

December 1st-8th is the Week of Prayer for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Please join us as we gather together each day to pray for missionaries that are serving in the mission fields. Prayer schedule is:

Monday-Saturday, December 2nd-7th - 6:00-8:00 a.m. and 5:00-7:00 p.m.
in the VMBC Library.

Lottie Moon was 32 and single when she set sail on her first missionary journey to China. Unlike most women of Lottie’s time, she was highly educated. She was part of the first small class of Southern women to receive a university-level Master of Arts degree.

Lottie spent 39 years serving in China. The work she did was anything but glamorous. She learned
the language, the culture, the customs, and the dress so she could fit in and minister to the Chinese
people. Her life was not easy. She wrote numerous letters to the then Foreign Mission Board urging
them to send more missionaries.

She battled loneliness and spent countless hours nursing other missionaries whose health had failed.
While her furloughs back home were needed to allow her body time to rest, her heart remained in
China. In 1912, Lottie Moon died on Christmas Eve while on a ship headed to the United States. She
starved herself because she could not eat while the Chinese people she loved so dearly had no food.

Lottie’s letters from the mission field prompted the first offering collection for overseas missions in
1888. The collection totaled $3,315, enough to send three women to China. Since then over $3 billion
has been given through the LMCO. Receipts for 2009 were $148.9 million and the goal for 2010 is $175 million. These funds, which make up 55% of the IMB’s total income, make it possible for over 5,300 missionaries to serve and share Jesus with others in remote and often dangerous parts of the world.

Prayer Walk in Patagonia, AZ

The Village Meadows Baptist Church Missions team invited the entire church to join them on a prayer walk through Patagonia.  Thirteen people joined together for the activity.  The prayer walk took place on Sunday, November 3, 2013, and was announced via the Sunday bulletin and Pastor Mark.  Participants, who met in the church parking lot after the second service, were offered the choice to ride in the church van or take their own vehicles.  Upon arriving at Patagonia we enjoyed fellowship over lunch and then broke up into two groups.

The Patagonia of South America is located near Argentina and Chile.  The ancient Patagonians were thought to be giants due to the fact that they were taller than the Europeans that “discovered” them in 1520.

Present day Patagonia, Arizona, also has “giants,” not in the form of tall people, but in Spiritual warfare.  The giants that one encounters today include New Age thinking.  One web site that embraces New Age thinking, offers retreats wherein participants have the opportunity to “activate almost all the Portals to Liberation.”  Huh?!

If you have never been on a prayer walk, you have missed out on a time of Spiritual focus and a heartfelt desire to bring the lost to our Redeemer King.  Each group slowly and prayerfully walks down the streets praying for the children we see, the occupants of the houses and for the entire town.  Each person prays silently and every so often we gather as a group to pray aloud.  At a designated time, the groups convene and begin the journey home.  On this particular visit to Patagonia, we returned to Sierra Vista at approximately 5:00 PM.

I encourage you to join us when the next prayer walk is offered.  You not only will be going forth with other members of the church, but, because where two or more are gathered in His name, you also will be walking with Jesus as we lift His name on behalf of a community that desperately needs Him.  An added bonus, as if walking with Jesus is not enough, your own Spiritual life will grow and deepen.  Come join us!

Navajo Nation Wood Cutting October 2013

We just returned from our mission trip from the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, AZ. A team of 11 members spent a week walking in the woods looking for dead trees for fire wood. With the use of chain saws we cut trees into firewood. Wheel barrel by wheel barrel we filled our trails with firewood and delivered to the elders within Gateway Community Church.

The firewood is the only means by which the people heat their homes. The firewood was received with joy and smiles. We enjoyed our time spent with the congregation of the church. As always we came home with blessings.

Houck Arizona Mission Trip

Our team traveled to Houck, Arizona in July. Our church partnered with the Naco First Christian Church Youth Group. We went to serve the church and to teach Vacation Bible School and Sports Camp.

We had an average attendance of 25 children daily. Six children gave their lives to Christ and two are awaiting baptism.

May the light of the Good News Church, led by Pastor Eugene Chee continue to shine with the love of Christ.

Houck, Arizona

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" — Hudson Taylor. Your mission team is obeying the Great Commission and planning a Judea short term mission trip, July 19^th-27^th, 2013.

A short term mission trip is the mobilization of Christians for a short period of time to visit a specific people or region to spread the Gospel where it is not widely practiced.

Your mission team which includes Larry & Susan Lane, Anna Marie Curtis, Mayetta Wells, Joan Koepping, Otto Richter, Scott & Jeannine Hill, Bill, Cathy & Rachel Stein and myself are partnering with Pastor Tim Scarborough and his youth group (a group of 21) from the Naco Baptist Church. We will be heading to the Navajo Nation in Houck, Arizona.  

Houck was founded by a mail carrier working a route from Prescott to Ft. Wingate in 1877 and he established a trading post called Houck’s Tank. The population is 1,024, of which 95.2% are Navajo. The average education is a high school diploma and the average income is $17,065.00.  The majority of the population is Catholic at 58%, Mormon at 26%, and Southern Baptist 3.2%.

We will be going there to teach VBS “Colossal Coaster” with the Houck Church. This is an opportunity for the church to reach out to the community. The VBS scripture is “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7. We are confident in our Lord that He will fulfill this scripture in each of us.

Our recent cake auction raised funds for this upcoming trip. We would like to thank everyone who donated, attended, contributed and prayed to help make this a success. Special thanks to the mission team for all their hard work and devotion.

We would like you to join in on this short term mission trip by praying for our needs:

o   Pray for our health

o   Pray for Godly and servant attitudes

o   Pray that each member will find a unique way to exercise their spiritual gift

o   Pray that the team will bond together around the purpose of the trip

o   Pray that the team will be built up spiritually

o   Pray for clarity and boldness of speech

o   Pray for adjustments to cultural differences

o   Pray for flexibility as plans change for whatever reason

o   Pray for the children who will attend

o   Pray for the salvation of souls and the strengthening of believers

o   Pray for safety in travel

Thank you for your prayers and God bless

 CAKE AUCTION!

Date: Friday, April 19th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: VMBC FLC

Your Mission Action Team is raising funds for their upcoming mission trip in July to Houck, AZ (Navajo Nation). We will be teaching Vacation Bible School and a Sports Camp.

 

Bake a cake, cupcakes, muffins, cookies, or pies

 

       Bid on a delicious dessert to take home

 

       Hear Cochise Community Choir’s

  

     Women’s Barbershop Quartet perform

 

      Come and enjoy the fellowship!

 

 

Directions:

Directions: from Fry Blvd. turn south, 1.1 mile

From Hwy 92 turn west on Foothills Dr., turn south on El Camino Real, 0.2 mile

 

 

Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer

Annie Armstrong

 

March 24th-30th

Let us come and join together for a time of prayer.
The Mission Action Team is sponsoring a week of prayer for Annie Armstrong Missionaries.

You may join us at either times and leave as you need. Pray silently or with others, however the Lord leads you.

When: March 25th-30th
Where: Library
Time: 6:00-8:00 am
           5:00-7:00 pm (except March 28th)
Focus: to pray for one missionary each day
What to bring: yourself, friend

    Prayerwalking…  

God as its Author

Jesus as its Leader

The Holy Spirit as its Enabler

And Kingdom purposes as its ends.

 

Calling everyone to join us on

Saturday, February 23rd, 10:00 - 11:00 am

at the library for a prayer walk in the neighborhood north of our church. The mission team will be praying for God’s will for us and the community around us on how we can better serve those who do not have a church home.

 

Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ 2012

Wood cutting at the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona. We have made several trips up here to cut wood for the elderly. The wood is a major source of heating for their homes. A lot of them do not have the physical ability to cut wood or they do not have family that can help. Our team comes prepared to cut wood and deliver to their homes. This wood insures that they have a warm winter. 

 

We spent one day at Canyon de Chelly. The beauty of the canyon reveals God's creation and His love for us. 

Dillingham, Alaska, July 2012

North to Alaska!

Our mission team made up of Pastor Larry Lane and his two grandsons Kaden and Kylor, Anna Marie Curtis, Eric Crots, and Lisa Hubble spent two weeks in Dillingham, Alaska.

Dillingham Bible Fellowship Church welcomed us with open arms. The provided us a warm place to sleep and delicious meals throughout the week. We also enjoyed hours of fellowship with several members.

We continued to work on the parsonage that was started a year ago.

 Pastor Larry and Eric finished the work on the roof. We framed the exterior windows. We insulated the whole house and sheet rocked half of the house. 

Every day was a blessing for our team as we kept working.We knew we were getting closer to seeing the parsonage becoming a home.

 

Kylor

Kaden

Parsonage