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Vernon Baptist Association E. J. Bradshaw, Director of Missions 620 S. 3rd Street, Leesville, La 71446 Lynda Price, Ministry Assistant Email: vernonbaptistassociation@gmail.com Office Phone: 337-238-0442/0440 www.vernonbaptistassociation.org Fax 337-404-7708

From My Heart With Love For several months we have offered suggestions for using specific Biblical prayers to use as guides to pray for revival. It’s time to expand our emphasis and pray for God’s Spirit to guide us to specific lost peo-ple and pray for their salvation. I suspect that if we are listening to God when we pray for persons by name, we will hear God saying, “I wondered when you were going to get interested. I’ve been concerned all along. Now, go and engage that person in fellowship and watch for my leadership in opportunities to visit and share Jesus!” Sometimes, prayer becomes a copout for not witnessing; but, if you pray in earnest for a lost person, prayer will open doors for you to witness in the power of the Holy Spirit. So, stay “prayed up” and surren-dered to be used by God to make friends with people and win them to Jesus. Pastors, deacons, church leadership, remember to move your August 18th Evening Service to Cooper Baptist Church for dinner and a Rally for Revival. Bill Robertson will be our preacher. Our last Rally at Old Anacoco was great! With your church present and participating, this one will be even greater! The Helping Hands Building has been a miracle. Baptist Builders have come from all over and, despite the high temperatures and humidity, they worked unbelievably hard and accomplished much. Interspersed with working on the building, their ladies and youth have conducted four Backyard Bible Schools. One team from two states took up a collection of $1,039.00 for the project. What an example of dedication. One couple has worked on three Helping Hands building projects. Now, it’s time for VBA churches to pick up hammers, paint brushes, etc. and finish the project; but intertwined with all the above projects, we have Call of the Captain Leadership Conference, My Hope with Billy Graham Training, etc. These leadership events can be very helpful to our churches. Please try to attend!

E. J. Bradshaw

August 2013

Childcare available upon request. Call VBA Office at 238-0440, email

vernonbaptistassociation@gmail.com or call Leesville FBC with ages of children

My Hope

America with

Billy Graham Training with

Wayne Jenkins Thursday, August 15, 6-8 p.m.

Fox’s Pizza (Dutch Treat)

HELPING HANDS NEW BUILDING We are indebted to over 270 people who have come from out of town to help build. They do not have any others scheduled to come ,so it’s time for local churches to recruit people to come and work. Call Jim Wyble at 225-939-6842 for projects still needed and dates and times people are needed. Right now they are sanding sheetrock and prepping for suspended ceiling. Starting later this week, he needs someone experienced in paint spraying and afterward, hanging grid for the ceiling.

Thank you for your prayers for Steve Hayes’ wife, Susan. She is out of the hospital for now and re-cuperating at Steve’s mom’s house in Oklahoma. Please continue to pray!

News From Our Churches Anacoco FBC—AWANA Registration, August 28, 5-6 p.m. Water Slides, hotdogs, chips & drinks Castor—Cemetery Homecoming: Singing with Ben Waites, August 2, 6:30 p.m.; August 3, 10:00 a.m. Canaan—Homecoming, August 11 East Leesville—AWANA Registration and Back to School Party, August 7, 6 p.m. Water slide, bounce house, slip-n-slide and water guns

Vernon Baptist Association

620 South 3rd Street

Leesville, LA 71446

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FOSTER CARE ORIENTATION LED BY LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDREN’S HOME Leesville FBC, 6:00 p.m. August 27, 2013

In coordination with Department of Family and Child Services, this meeting is a prerequisite in order to attend foster parent classes. There are 4,500 children in foster care and where better for a child to be than in a Southern Baptist Church and a Christian family!

Calendar

AUGUST 2-3 Call of the Captain Leadership Conference, FBC Leesville; Info at MightyMenofGod.com 15 VBA My Hope with Billy Graham Training— Wayne

Jenkins, Fox’s Pizza 6-8 p.m. (Dutch Treat) 18 Simultaneous Revival Prayer Rally, Cooper Baptist Church. Meal at 5:00 p.m. Worship with Bill

Robertson at 6:00 p.m. 27 Foster Care Info/Orientation Meeting, FBC Leesville

SEPTEMBER 7 Ladies Fall Conference, FBC Anacoco 15-22 VBA Simultaneous Revivals 24 Dry Creek Sr. Adult Retreat—Bro. Brad will be one of the

speakers 25 See you at the Pole Rally, East Leesville

OCTOBER 15 Quarterly WMU Meeting, Cooper 22 VBA Annual Meeting, Castor, 2:30 p.m.

NOVEMBER 3-9 My Hope with Billy Graham in homes

Our Sympathy to Shaunda & Sara On the 24th of June, Shaunda and Sara Netherland lost a

special husband and dad; Silver Creek Baptist Church

lost their pastor; Vernon Parish lost a friend and Deputy

Sheriff; we all lost a special friend in an early morning

accident. And people without Christ lost a powerful,

consistent witness to the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

Steve Netherland will long be missed by all.

Revival Prayer Rally at Cooper Baptist Church with Bill Robertson, Speaker—August 18—Meal 5:00 p.m.; Worship 6 p.m.

We are asking every church to MOVE their Sunday Evening Services to Cooper for this night as we prayerfully prepare for revival. Please call 238-0440 or email vernonbaptistassociation@gmail.com and let

us know how many are coming from your church for supper.

USED VEHICLE NEEDED FOR DISCOVERY WORKS MINISTRY

Discovery Works in CENLA, Inc., a non-profit organization and ministry supported by Vernon Baptist Association, is in need of a reliable used vehicle to be used by two of the residents of the transitional home for transportation back and forth to vo-tech school beginning in the fall semester. Purchase price must be low. Free would be great! Cash toward purchase also ac-cepted. Donations are tax deductible. Thanks for your help. Belinda Edwards

Round ‘Em Up & Rope ‘Em In

Women of Wisdom

VBA Women’s Conference

September 7, 2013

Anacoco First Baptist Church

Dee Dee Williams, Guest Speaker

Paullette Mays, Music Catered by The Mustard Seed

Registration 8:30 a.m. Conference 9:00 am—end with lunch

Registration Fee: $10.00 For more Info, Contact DeLain Prewitt at 337-238-1043

ATTENTION CHURCH CLERKS!! The Annual Church Profiles are ready to be picked up. The info is due online or in VBA office by September 16. If some-one from your church comes to Leesville, please ask them to

pick your ACP up and save postage!

CHURCHES/EVANGELISTS AND MUSIC LEADERS FOR OUR SIMULTANEOUS REVIVALS Canaan—Lynn Clayton/Joe Joslin Castor—Micah Murrell/Craig Franklin Cold Springs—Van Lowe

Cooper—Casey Johnson East Leesville—David Hankins Leesville FBC—Bill Robertson

Mt. Carmel—Lyndon Longoria Mt. Moriah—Robert Rollins with Focus on Youth Old Anacoco—Jeff Hoffman