Announcements

 HEADLINES

NEW FALL SCHEDULE
HIGH ATTENDANCE/BREAKFAST SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER TRAINING SEPTEMBER 17-18
MISSIONS AND U

*************************************************************

NEW FALL SCHEDLE
Joint worship services will be held each Sunday morning for the next few months. Each service will begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday School will begin at 9:15 a.m., thirty minutes earler than previously scheduled.

HIGH ATTENDANCE/BREAKFAST ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
On Sunday, September 12, there will be a continental breakfast served in the Great Hall, and that Sunday will be "High Attendance" Sunday. Each Sunday School class, First Grade through Adult, is challenged to achieve 25% attendance above its average attendance for the months between and including September through June. The class that achieves the highest percentage increase will be given special recognition. The time is tentatively set for 8:45 a.m. We encourage everyone to attend.

SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER TRAINING SEPTEMBER 17-18
Sunday School Summit (S3)"New Tools For Your Tool Box" will be held September 17-18 at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center. The featured speaker will be Dr. Randy Ashcraft, Pastor in Residence, VBMB, with music provided by Jake Roudebush, North Roanoke Baptist Church. All age-group Sunday School workers are welcome to attend. The conference begins on Friday with dinner at 5:30 p.m. and concludes after lunch on Saturday. There will be breakout sessions for all age groups. For more information, contact Bill Alphin at (800) 255-2428 Ext. 6221, or bill.alphin@vbmb.org. The web site is http://www.vbmb.org/courageouschurches/s2.htm

MISSIONS AND U
The Missions Ministry Team will be offering various mission opportunities for church participants in the days ahead. The Baptist Men, under the leadership of Dave Cole, will be scheduling projects at Eagle Eyrie. The Men's Ministry, under the leadership of Michael King, will schedule a seminar on No Man Left Behind.  Brian Conyers, son of Meade Conyers and who grew up in Chester Baptist Church, and his family, are serving as church planters with NAMB in Vermont. We hope to set up some projects to help them out.

The church started an after-school Bible Club at Elizabeth Scott Elementary School in Enon that meets on Thursday afternoons. Michael King heads up a team of workers.  A partnership between Virginia Baptists and the country of Panama is being established and groups will be given the opportunity to go in 2011. A new partnership in Southwest Virginia (Appalachia) will enable Virginia Baptist to more intentionally support the mission efforts of our brothers and sisters there, working with Tony and Jan Johnson who will serve as volunteer coordinators. The youth group is planning some missions activities this summer.