A new CD detailing Virginia Baptists' mission work is available for churches to use.
The GO: Responding to the Signs of the Times CD can be ordered from the Virginia Baptist Mission Board.
“Virginia Baptists are a body of believers who go,” said Paige Peak, chief communications officer for the Mission Board. “They go seeking to serve others and to share the love of Christ. They go in response to communities wanting to build courageous churches. They go in response to churches seeking to identify and develop emerging leaders. They go in response to congregations looking for ways to encourage and empower ministerial and lay leaders. They go in response to needs around the state, the nation and the world — from developing partnership missions that spread the gospel in foreign lands to ministering through disaster relief programs in their own state.
“When it's time to go, Virginia Baptists can, because of the combined giving power of over 1,400 Baptist General Association churches to Cooperative Missions,” she said. “Cooperative Missions” is Virginia Baptists' long-standing commitment to the Cooperative Program funding mechanism.
The GO: Responding to the Signs of the Times CD shows how Virginia Baptists have been able to respond in helping victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, victims of the tsunami, and the earthquake in Pakistan because Cooperative Missions gifts provided the infrastructure.
“Our response to these disasters is just one way that Cooperative Missions gifts help Virginia Baptists show Christ's love,” says John Upton, executive director of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. “Virginia Baptists were first responders in Picayune, Miss., because our staff and volunteers were well equipped through Cooperative Missions gifts.”
The GO: Responding to the Signs of the Times CD is a three-minute presentation that is well suited for use in sermons, Sunday morning worship, Sunday school or other church settings. To receive a copy of the CD, email Peak at paige.peak@
vbmb.org or call (800) ALL-BGAV, ext. 1202.
In addition to the CD, downloadable Cooperative Missions ads (for use in church bulletins, newsletters and websites) are available at www.vbmb.org/CM.
Special to the Herald