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Some Random Thoughts

June 29, 2011 in News and Events, Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear E-News Friends,

Here are some random thoughts that I am having….

1. I am really PUMPED, JUICED, BLOWN AWAY to hear about what God is doing in and among our youth group as they are at youth camp this week. I have heard from several different sources that God is at work BIG TIME. Praise the Lord. Pray for them as they finish up the week.

2. I am looking for at least 10-12 people to join my MasterLife Small Group in August. MasterLife is 21 week intense Bible Study that will help you to move from being a “babe” in Christ to a Spiritual Parent. We will meet on Wednesday Nights from 6:15pm to 7:30pm. You will have 5 days of homework each week. Each evening of homework will take about 20 minutes of your time. If you miss a session you have to make it up. If you want to go deeper in your spiritual walk this may be just for you.

3. Continue to pray for our search for a worship leader and a worship producer.  We are back to square one in our search. This is a very important ministry position at Eastside.

4. This Sunday we are going to observe COMMUNION. I hope you will be attendance.

5. Interesting in hosting a child from Guatemala? Faces of Culture Exchange (an organization in Guatemala and partner with Madison Board of Education) are needing host families for 9 high school students (5 girls and 4 boys). Here are some of the details:

  • The cultural ambassadors will arrive mid October and be here 8 weeks, leaving in December
  • They will have a school schedule separate from the host child and be introduced to a group of kids that will support  them during their time….
  • The host families only supplied supper and a place to stay, Faces of Culture will provide money to purchase lunch or breakfast from our cafeterias if desired by host families
  • The cultural ambassadors come with their own medical insurance and spending money

6. Don’t forget that Eastside now has online giving available. Visit www.eastside-cc.com and click on the donate now button.

7. Remember that I love each one of you. If you need anything please know that I am always available.

Love and Prayers,

Pastor Virgil

PS Beverly is doing much better. Keep praying for her though.

New Sermon Series: FEARLESS & Communion

June 27, 2011 in Featured, Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear E-News Friends,

Battles are inevitable but victory is not. We often find ourselves fighting enemies that are stronger than we are. So how do you stand FEARLESS when there’s so much at stake? Be inspired by accounts from God’s Word about average people who became champions and overcame insurmountable odds. Do you have what it takes? Experience “FEARLESS” to find out once and for all.

It all begins this Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 10:50 am.

Sermon Titles are:

July 3rd: Gideon
July 10th: Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
July 17th: Benaiah
July 24th: Jonathan
July 31st:  David & Goliath

This Sunday as we celebrate our freedom as a country, we are also going to celebrate our FREEDOM IN CHRIST as we celebrate COMMUNION at 10:50 am.

Love and Prayers,

PS Our youth group made it safely to youth camp. Please lift these 26 men and women up in your prayers this week.



A Couple Reminders

June 23, 2011 in Missions, Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear E-News Friends,

This week has been extremely busy. I am so sorry for not getting this out sooner. But here we go…

1. This Saturday at 6:30 pm at The Home Store & More we will be having a princess party to make different items to take to Guatemala for our July trip. PoPpartysupplies.

2. This Sunday we will finish up our marriage sermon series and commission the youth for their mission trip. The youth leaves on Monday morning to travel to youth camp in North Carolina.

3. Don’t forget that you can now give on line by visiting our church’s website at www.eastside-cc.com and click on the red “donate” button.

4. Attention all women!!!!! Women’s trip is coming this fall. jmwc2011FLYER.

5. Here is a challenge from one of our church members – Each Sunday you are in attendance at Eastside make it a POINT to greet and meet at least 3 NEW PEOPLE that you don’t know. Let’s be the Friendliest Church in Madison County is the challenge. :)

Remember I love you and I am so excited about what God is doing.

Love and Prayers,

Pastor VG

PS Remember to continue to pray for Beverly. She is now home. Pray for Matt and Courtney Murray and the college team who are still in Thailand on their mission trip.

Please Pray

June 8, 2011 in Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear Friends,

I am asking you to pray for the following 7 items:

1. Meals on Wheels – Opportunity to Serve

June Schedule
Date:              June 20 thru June 24 (M-F)
Time:             10:30am to 11:30am

Call Small Group Coach and Leader Laura Johnston (859.200.1858) to volunteer to take one of the days!  This is a great missional opportunity for small groups – let’s take advantage of it!!

PS – Upcoming Schedule: July 18-22

2. Thailand Mission Team – Matt & Courtney Murray made it safely to Thailand with their team. Please pray for God to use them greatly this summer. They will return in late July.

3. Rock the Block Backyard Bible Clubs – Eastside is having three separate Bible Clubs this year as an outreach into our community. The Bible Club going on this week in Shady Oaks is going very well. Over 20 children in attendance each night. Contact Carla Perry to serve at cperry@eastside-cc.com

4. Upcoming Mission Trips - Pray for our upcoming youth mission trip to Ridgecrest, NC, and our international trip to Guatemala at Prince of Peace.

5. Pray for Eastside’s search for a new worship leader.

6. Pray for Grace Baptist Church, deaf church which Eastside is helping to sponsor. Tom King is interim pastor for Grace. Please pray for him as it seeks to provide leadership to and in the deaf community.

7. Eastside’s 13th Annual Golf Scramble as we seek to raise funds for God’s Outreach Food Pantry of Madison County and for Feed My Starving Children. The scramble is Tuesday, June 14th at 1:00 pm at Gibson Bay.

PS Continue to pray for Beverly Burrus who is still recovering from her surgery. Also for Jane & Nelson Young.

I love each one of you, and it is joy to serve as your pastor,

Pastor Virgil

Prayers Are Needed

March 19, 2011 in Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear Friends,

The other day I read a post from Bob Burford (click here to read the post) which he describes how he organizes his days around 6 words: FREE Days, FOCUS Days, and BUFFER Days. Here is how Bob describes each day from his blog….

” A Focus Day is primetime for work. For an NFL Quarterback, it is time to suit up and get your game face on – time to concentrate. Buffer Days are for practice, preparation, fulfilling promises and cleaning up all those loose ends (dental appointments and email responses). A Free Day is a 24-hour period dedicated to rest, recharging and recreation.”

For the next two weeks (March 21st-March 31st) I am going to be in FOCUS DAY MODE! I am going to seek to accomplish the following agenda items:

  • Finish up the sermon series “Intimacy with God”
  • Prepare this year’s Easter Message – “Beyond the Grave”
  • Make preparations for May’s new sermon series “Finding Your PLACE”. This will be Eastside’s Spring Church-Wide Spiritual Growth Campaign which will be during the month of May.

I would appreciate your prayers during this time of FOCUS! I hope you have a great week.

Go Cats,

Pastor Virgil

 

Start Inviting People, NOW!

March 14, 2011 in Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear Friends,

The Lord has being dealing with me lately about LOST PEOPLE! People who do not know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. I have been asking myself the following questions:

  • Who am I cultivating a relationship with that is lost and does not know Jesus as their Savior?
  • Who am I inviting to small group, church, family events, or other activities that does not know Jesus as their Savior?
  • How many lost people am I currently praying for daily?

Your turn….How are you doing in this arena? Take a moment and evaluate yourself in this arena.

Easter Sunday is 41 days away. Let’s all agree to do whatever it takes to invite someone to attend with us on Easter Sunday. Make sure the person or the family we invite are lost or unchurched. What do you think? Go ahead, pause for a moment, pray to God and ask Him to impress on your heart the person/family that you need to invest and invite to Easter 2011.

We will have 2 worship gatherings on Sunday, April 24th: 9:00 am and 10:50 am. We will have children activities birth thru 5th grade available at both worship gatherings.

Who is Jesus impressing on your heart to invite? Ask the Lord to open the door up for you so you can have a dialogue with that person/family. He will do it.

BTW, the sermon for this year is “Beyond the Grave.”

Let’s change eternity this Easter!

Love and Prayers,

Pastor VG

PS Baptism is this Sunday, March 20th. If you wish to get baptized then please email me at vgrant@eastside-cc.com

 

Prince of Peace Distribution E-News List

February 24, 2011 in Prayers with 0 Comments

Dear Friend,

This is a test message. My tech guy imported a list of names and email addresses into my blog and created a new distribution list for Prince of Peace. I received this list from Chris Hager.

For those of you who don’t know me, I am Virgil Grant. I currently serve on the general assembly for POP.

Let me know if we need to add people to this list.

Thank you for your continue support of Prince of Peace.

Blessings,

Dr. Virgil Grant
Eastside Community, Sr. Pastor
2010 Catalpa Loop
Richmond, KY 40475

 

Prayer Concerns (Please Read)

September 1, 2010 in Prayers, Thoughts with 0 Comments

Dear Friends:

I want to thank you for all the prayers you have offered up on my behalf over the last month as I was traveling almost every other day around the country. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I would like to encourage you to continue to pray for me and our community of faith as we are experiencing a lot of sickness and death. In fact, I have 2 funerals schedule for the end of this week. Please continue to lift one another up in prayer.

Please continue to pray for the following people:

  • Brooke Taulbee and family in the loss of her father, Ray Carpenter.
  • Todd Avery and family in the loss of his dad and his step-father (all in a week’s timeframe)
  • Cecil, Daphne, & Destiny Wright and family in the loss of their son, Jarred. Here are the details: Jarred Davis Wright died on Sunday, Aug. 29 just seven hours into his life.  Visitation will be Wednesday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Combs, Parsons and Collins Funeral Home, Richmond. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, at the funeral home, with burial following in Flatwoods Cemetery.

I know you will want to join me in expressing our sympathies and showing our kindness to the Wright family in this time of sorrow.

  • Chuck Curry and family in the loss of his ex-wife, Amy Murphy Curry.

Also, please pray for Jane & Nelson Young, Helen Wells, Prince of Peace Girls Orphanage in Guatemala, the launch of Life’s Healing Choices which is September 12, 2010.

Welcome new members to Eastside: Greg, Kerian, Alarah, Caiden Gillum; Mary Carol and Chad Tate to our church family.

I love being your pastor.

Have a great Labor Day Weekend,

Pastor Virgil

Have You Told God That?

July 7, 2010 in Prayers, Thoughts with 0 Comments

Dear Prayer Partners,

Jesus clearly believed that prayer was very important. Jesus prayed about a lot of different situations which He faced. For example: (from John Ortberg’s book The Me I Want to Be)

  • Jesus prayed when His life was crowded and draining (Luke 5:15-16)
  • Jesus prayed when He faced important choices (Luke 6:12)
  • Jesus prayed when He was sad or burdened (Matt 14:13)
  • Jesus prayed when He needed strength for His work (Mark 1:35, 38)
  • Jesus prayed when He was concerned about people He loved (Luke 22:31)
  • Jesus prayed when He faced an insurmountable problem (Luke 22:39 – 24)

If Jesus prayed often and in almost any imaginable situation then we should offer our need, hurt, habit, or hang-up to God.

Whatever you are struggling with let me ask you a question, “Have you told God?” If not, then stop right now and tell Him what’s going on in your life.

Prayer & Need Requests:

  • Mayor Lawson needs a lounge chair for an elderly gentlemen who has hurt his leg. Contact the Mayor at 623-1000.
  • Madison Towers are in need of 2 full size  mattresses for their residents. Contact Patsy Eaton at Madison Towers.
  • A family we know is in need of a FREE good reliable car. It’s a single mother and her daughter.
  • Traci & Joseph Bowling as they will be moving back to West Virginia. Traci does our interpreting for the deaf at Eastside.
  • New Small Group Leaders and small group members (presently we have 3 new small group leaders for the fall. We need only 17 more). Will YOU be one of Eastside’s New Small Group Leaders?
  • Continue to pray for the start of a deaf church in Madison County. Several churches along with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and the Tates Creek Association are trying to launch this endeavor.
  • $100,000.00 in 6 months Emphasis. A BIG THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has pledged, given, or is thinking about giving.
  • God’s Outreach Food Pantry of Madison County as they begin their new building.
  • Pray for Revival and spiritual awakening for our members, community, and country.

Pray without Ceasing,

Pastor VG

Whazzup???

June 28, 2010 in Missions, Prayers with 0 Comments

Here are a few need to know items:

1. Please be in prayer for the following:

  • Upward Basketball & Cheerleading Camps going on this week. We have a total of 50 children involved in this wonderful ministry. We will be sharing the gospel with them on Wednesday. Please be in prayer for this tender moment.
  • Pray for Toni Burberry who will have surgery on Wednesday.
  • Pray for the Ralph Walton Family as they mourn the passing of Ralph.
  • Pray for Lisa Pinson Sizemore’s dad, Larry. Larry is at Central Baptist
  • Pray for all the Neighborhood Impact Projects going on
  • Pray for the WildWorks Experience which will take place July 9th and 10th.
  • Pray for new small group leaders to step up. Our goal is to start/launch 20 new small groups this fall.

2. July 4th – the back parking lot will be roped off for families, small groups to come and to fellowship. There are no plan agenda or activities for the evening. The church will be unlocked for bathroom purposes only. Please bring your lawn chairs and blankets. There is no cost associated with this event.

3. Faith Promise Giving Report:

Church Wide Goal: $100,000.00 in six months
Families Involved: 68
Amount Pledged: $79,744.62
Amount Received: $31,782.54

4. Thank You Note from the Gilmin Group:

The Gilmin Group would like to thank Eastside for their participation in the block party on Saturday, June 26. There were 19 people from Eastside that volunteered. Great connections were made in the Foxhaven Drive Neighborhood. This event would not have been possible without Eastside’s support. Thanks again.

5. Got Volunteer?

Interested in getting plugged in at Eastside thru serving? Then the place to start is to contact our Volunteer Central Coordinator, Vivian Wallace at vivwallace@gmail.com or at 582-5600.

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