Friday, August 28, 2009

Introducing. . . .

. . . .two new full-time faces at Vision Onward. God has brought us two amazing men who have taken a leap of faith, left their current jobs and began full-time ministry with us. We are thrilled to have Ken Peace and Don Bush partnering with us and we are also very grateful for those who have been willing to help financially to support their work in ministry. They are amazing, strong men of God and are a great asset to reaching people for Christ.


Ken has a special gift with children and all children LOVE Mr. Ken. He has been spending a lot of time with some of the older boys and has developed great relationships with them. It is a huge blessing to have Godly men in the lives of the boys we work with because most of them do not have fathers in their lives. Ken will be in leading in Refuge, Men's Club and he also leads a D-Group (Discipleship Group). Ken has a passion to lead people to Jesus- - -especially children and youth!


Don is a man of many talents. He is very gifted with youth and is instrumental during Refuge with game time.
Don will also be handling many of the responsibilities at the Pathway Transitional housing where we currently have eight families residing. Every Thursday night, the residents of the apartments have classes that they are required to take and Don assists in coordinating those classes.

Both of these men have been a tremedous asset to this ministry and we know God has great plans to use them to further His kingdom!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Baptism

This past July we were blessed to baptize four children in our ministry. The two girls have been a part of our ministry since we began back in 2007 and the two young men just joined us this year.

We met the families at Osage Hills Park and had an awesome fellowship grill out before the baptism where Jeff spoke about the meaning of baptism and why it is important.

We then went down to the creek and baptized them. Here are a few of the pictures of the baptism: