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March 9, 2012 in Uncategorized, Weekly News with 0 Comments

Hi Friends,
Here’s your weekly news update from The Village Church at Vinings:

-We’ll worship God together in Word and Sacrament this Sunday, the Second Sunday in Lent, at 10:30AM at Teasley Elementary. Justin and David will lead us in singing, Jonathan will lead our liturgy and celebrate Communion, and Curt will preach from 1 Corinthians 1:18-25. There’s never been a better time to invite an unchurched friend!

-Daylight Savings Time starts Saturday night, so don’t forget to set your clocks forward!

-We have a new nursey option for 2 and 3 year olds. As always, you’re welcome to have your children with you throughout the whole service – we value families worshiping God together! We’ve had some recent requests, thought, to have a nursery option for 2 and 3 year old children for the entire service. So, if you have a 2 or 3 year old, and you’d like for them to be in a caring environment for the entire service, feel free to bring them to the Library at Teasley before the service begins.

-Sunday School classes will meet this week – 9:15AM at Teasley, including a new class taught by Matt Koehn on the book of Hebrews. Matt’s class begins at 9:30AM.

Here’s a description from Matt:
“The exalted Christ is not only the focus of our church, but the focus of the Epistle to the Hebrews as well. Join us at Teasley on Sunday mornings at 9:30am as, together, we mine the theological depths of this, the “Cindarella of New Testament studies”, and come to a more complete understanding of the person and work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Bring whatever you’d like (questions, coffee, and donuts are encouraged!), but most importantly bring the expectation that the richness of God’s Word will saturate your heart and mind.”

-We have another “8 at 8″ Social coming up Friday, March 23rd. We’ll have dinner in groups of 8 at host homes and then all meet up at Rod and Linda Gray’s house for a special backyard concert by Mark Miller. Click on the link below to see the evite for this event. Contact Jana Adams at [email protected] for more info.
http://new.evite.com/#view_invite:eid=01F7AAQZXGL24E22AEPBMF5LYWTO7Q

-Gentlemen, there’s a conference coming up in Atlanta that you don’t want to miss. It’s called the Gospel Man Conference and it’s Friday, April 27 (7:00-9:30PM) and Saturday, April 28 (8:00AM-1:00PM) at Perimeter Church in John’s Creek. Tullian Tchividjian and Scotty Smith are the speakers. I don’t know of two other men I’d rather sit under in order to soak-up the good news of God’s grace. We’d like to get a group of men from VCV going, so if you’re interested in attending, contact Jonathan at [email protected] to reserve a ticket.  Here’s the link for more info: http://www.thegospelman.com

-There are a few concerts coming up in ATL that several of us will be attending. We’d love for you to come along too!

Andrew Bird, March 17th at the Tabernacle
http://tabernacleatl.com/event/0E00475883434ADF

Punch Brothers, April 21 at Variety Playhouse
http://www.variety-playhouse.com/event/92609/

Here’s a thought for the week:
What we offer the world is not ourselves or our moral example or our spiritual integrity. What we offer the world is our broken lives, saying, “We are sinners saved by grace.” What we offer the world is Jesus Christ and him crucified.
-Mark Galli-

Grace and Peace,
The VCV team

Come! Be a Loser With Us

March 5, 2012 in Sermons, Weekly News with 0 Comments

A sermon by Rev. Jonathan Adams – 3/4/2012

Come! Be a Loser With Us

Weekly News

December 9, 2011 in Uncategorized, Weekly News with 0 Comments

Hi Friends,

Here’s your weekly news update from The Village Church at Vinings:

-We’ll worship God together in Word and Sacrament this Sunday (the Third Sunday of Advent) at 10:30AM at Teasley Elementary. Jonathan will lead our liturgy, Justin and David will lead us in singing and Curt will preach from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24.

-Sunday School is on this week! Youth will meet at Panera Bread Co. on Paces Ferry at 9:00. Children and adults will meet at Teasley at 9:15. Adults will discuss chapter 9 of Steve Brown’s, A Scandalous Freedom.

-This Sunday (Dec. 11) afternoon Dan and Shelly Owens are doing a living nativity at their house as an outreach to their neighborhood. If you’d like to help or if you’d like for your kids to be involved, contact [email protected]

Here’s something to ponder this week:
“Something happens when we come to God for His grace and mercy—something that is so radical and so amazing that it can only be described as death to our old selves. It is the overwhelming desire to please the One who has loved us with such amazing and unconditional love….I may not get better overnight; I may not be the fine, upstanding, and wonderful Christian I thought I was, but I now have a desire to please the One who loved me (and gave Himself for me). That desire is the soil in which goodness grows—not perfectly, by any means, but it does grow.”

-Steve Brown-

Grace and Peace,
The VCV team

Christmas Schedule

November 30, 2011 in Devotionals, Uncategorized, Weekly News with 0 Comments

Hi Friends,

There’s quite a bit happening in and around The Village Church at Vinings during the Advent/Christmas season! Here’s a basic schedule to mark you calendars. Write back if you’d like more information.

Dec. 1 (Thursday): Ken Boa, a brilliant local Bible teacher and scholar, and the teaching elder at Christ Church Anglican, will present a lecture on It’s a Wonderful Life in his “Faith in Film” series. This visual presentation will use clips and stills from the film to present relational, moral, and spiritual themes in this Christmas classic. Thursday, Dec. 1 at 6:30 at Peachtree Road UMC fellowship hall.

Dec. 4 (Sunday): Lunch for the SAY Yes! families at New Life Covenant Church at 12:30PM. Right after church this Sunday we’ll head down to English Ave and help serve a meal to all the SAY Yes! families. Contact Carlyn ([email protected]) if you’d like to help-out.

Dec. 11 (Sunday) – Dan and Shelly Owens are doing a living nativity at their house as an outreach to their neighborhood. If you’d like to help or if you’d like for your kids to be involved, contact [email protected]

Dec. 18 (Sunday) – Village Kids will be singing carols and reading scriptures during the worship service. TIme to invite the grandparents!

Dec. 18 (Sunday) – Young Adult Christmas Party. Contact [email protected]

Dec. 21 (Wednesday) – VCV Youth Christmas Party at the home of Peter & Charlotte McNally from 7-10pm. Bring a white elephant gift. Dinner will be provided. Contact Carlyn at [email protected] for more info.

Dec. 24 (Saturday) – On Christmas Eve we’ll have a simple Nine Lessons and Carols service at Rod and Linda Gray’s home. Nine Lessons and Carols is a traditional, participatory Anglican service involving, as the name says, reading nine scripture passages and singing nine Christmas carols. Musicians from VCV as well as some special guests will be involved. This is a meaningful way to celebrate the coming Messiah! Children are welcome. More details coming soon.

Dec. 25 (Sunday) – We will have a simple worship service on Christmas morning! 10:30-11:30 sharp. The nursery will be open for parents to take fussy babies, but there will be no childcare and no children’s church for that morning. Normal childcare will resume the next Sunday.

Weekly News

November 25, 2011 in Weekly News with 0 Comments

Hi Friends,

Here’s your weekly news update from The Village Church at Vinings:
-We’ll worship God in Word and Sacrament this Sunday (the first Sunday of Advent!) at 10:30AM at Teasley Elementary. Jonathan will lead our liturgy, Justin and David will lead us in singing and Curt will preach from 1 Corinthians 1:3-9.  We’ll be blessed to celebrate several baptism and child dedications this Sunday as well!
-Because of the holiday weekend we will not have Sunday School this week.  We’ll be back on a regular Sunday School schedule next week.  

-We have a great opportunity to serve our friends at New Life Covenant Church and the SAY Yes Center this Christmas!  On December 4th at 12:30pm, we are helping to provide a Christmas lunch for the congregation at New Life and anyone in the English Ave community that would like to join.  This is a great outreach opportunity for Pastor Tim, as many of the people that come to the lunch have never been inside the church doors.  If you would like to help out, contact Carlyn for more information at carlyn@villagechurchvinings.org.

-Dan and Shelly Owens are organizing a Christmas Nativity with the children at VCV that will be performed at 5pm on December 11th in their home.  If your child would like to participate in the Nativity email Shelly at [email protected].

-Congratulations to Judd and Valerie Harper on the birth of their son, Wilson Blair Harper.  Wilson was born at 2:13AM on November 22nd, weighing 7lbs 8oz.  Everything went smoothly, and the family is doing great.  Contact Carlyn if you’d like to prepare a meal for the Harpers.

Here’s a thought for the week:
My highest hope is for all of us to stop trying to fool others by appearing to have our act together.  As people living in intimate union with God, we need to become better known for what and who we actually are.  Perhaps a good place to begin would be telling the world — before the world does its own investigation — that we’re not as bad as they think.  We’re worse.  At least I know that I’m worse.                                               
Let’s get real.  For every mean-spirited, judgmental thing some preacher has said, I’ve thought something nastier, more hateful and more cutting about one of my neighbors … For every brother or sister whose moral failure has been exposed, I’ve failed privately.  No matter how boring followers of Jesus may appear to be to the outsiders, they don’t know the half of it; trust me…  If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we’ll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor — and in theirs. 
-Fil Anderson-

Grace and Peace,

The VCV team
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