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Yokefellow Ministry - Holding the Ropes for Your Missionaries

Our home church recently started a “Yokefellow Ministry”.  The purpose of the ministry is to partner church members the missionaries who are sent out of the church to more fully meet the needs of the missionaries and to be active fellow workers with them in the truth. WHAT IS A YOKEFELLOW? The name “yokefellow” comes [...]

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Please Pray for My Pastor

I would like to ask you to please pray for my pastor, Austin Gardner.  He wrote the following on his blog recently about his health, and I sure would appreciate it if you would pray for him.  God has used Him in a great way in my life and in the lives of many others around the [...]

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Leadership With Vision Podcast

My pastor, Austin Gardner, has started a brand new podcast called “Leadership With Vision.”  In this podcast, he shares some very helpful truths about leadership, missions, evangelism, discipleship, church-planting, and training others.  The first three episodes are about: Cross Cultural Relations, Training Leaders, and Leading Softly. All of these have been a great help to me, and [...]

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Good Trip to USA

A week ago from today, Teri and I moved out of our house in Northern Ireland and said goodbye to our friends and co-workers there.  We packed all of our belongings into storage and headed to Belfast on the bus with our ten bags.  When we arrived, we checked into a hotel, picked up my [...]

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Update on Pastor Austin Gardner

Here is an update that Pastor Gardner sent out about his cancer: Betty and I just returned from the first doctor’s appoint. It was Dr Scott Miller. He seems very professional, good man, and a super reputation. He says that it is definitely cancerous and the entire kidney must be removed. He says he will [...]

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Please Pray for Pastor Austin Gardner

On Tuesday, my pastor, Austin Gardner, was hospitalized. After a few tests, the news was not good. Most likely early next week he will undergo surgery to remove a kidney and a 10 cm cancerous growth. Here is an update Pastor Gardner sent out on Wednesday: Dear friends, I want to thank each of you [...]

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Our Generation Summit in Pigeon Forge, TN - December 29-31

Our sending church, Vision Baptist Church, in Alpharetta, GA, is hosting the annual Our Generation Summit once again this year.  Though Teri and I will be unable to attend this year, we have gone in the past, and it is definitely a retreat worth attending. The Our Generation Summit is an incredibly exciting missions-centered retreat [...]

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Church Planting Seminar - Atlanta, GA (3-4 November)

  Our home church is hosting a church planting seminar absolutely free of charge on November 3-4!  If you are a church planter, pastor, missionary, in full time-ministry, considering church planting, or just want to be learn more about and b involved in church planting, I want to encourage you to attend this event.  Dr. [...]

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Vision Baptist Mission Conference

Our home church’s mission conference begins tomorrow night.  The conference will be at Vision Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. Ten missionaries representing countries from all over the world will be presenting their burden to get the gospel to those who have never heard. If you are in the area between September 15 and 18, stop [...]

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Our Generation Camp

This summer, our home church, Vision Baptist Church, will be hosting a missions camp for middle and high school students as well college students.  The theme of the camp will be “For His Name Sake”.  This is year, will be the 8th annual Our Generation Student Leadership Camp as well as the 1st Annual OG [...]

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