Church Briefs: July 7, 2022

Get those creative juices flowing at Hermitage Baptist Church’s 2022 vacation Bible school, Spark Studios, a place where imagination is ignited and creativity is awakened. Whether children are exploring their artistic side in the Bible Study Studio or Crafts Design Center, laying down a track at the Music Sound Stage, or bringing inventions to life at the Missions Workshop, they will learn, like King David, to use their talents to bring glory to God. They will discover that their creativity is a gift from the infinitely creative Creator who designed them for His glory.

Hermitage Baptist Church, a beacon to the broken of Middlesex and beyond, is at 94 Ware’s Bridge Road in Church View. Its Spark Studios program is set for 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday-Friday, July 10-15, at the church.

For information, visit www.hermitagebaptistchurch.com or call 804-758-2636.

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Harmony Grove Baptist Church is having an eat-in/takeout barbecue dinner fundraiser on Saturday, July 16. Takeout will be from 4 to 4:45 p.m. and eat-in will be from 5 to 7 p.m.
The menu will be barbecue with cole slaw, baked beans and dessert. The cost is a “love offering.” This offering will be used to support the rebuilding of New Hope Memorial Baptist Church in Shacklefords, which burned to the ground last year.

Harmony Grove’s address is 7722 General Puller Highway in Topping.

Call the church at 804-758-5154 on Tuesdays, between 9 and noon, if you have questions about the dinner.

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Tapestry Day of Prayer is coming up. It calls to mind, “in returning and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength” (Isaiah 30:15). It is set for 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at All Saints Anglican Church, 48 New St., Saluda.

Freewill offerings will be accepted for admission. Attendees can fast or have lunch in parish hall.

Tapestry, a prayer ministry for Christian women in the world, is issuing a call for all women to lay aside the outward differences and to weave together in the inward likeness of Christ Jesus; to follow in prayer the words of Mary, His Mother, from Luke 1:38, which reads, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord, let it be done unto me according to Thy Word; and to pray for families, the church, nations, and ourselves.”

The Tapestry Day of Prayer is open to all denominations. God is calling us to: Arise, come away beloved for a day to a lonely place, to be silent; to hear the still, small voice, and to be one, as He is One (John 17).

The day’s topics include:

• The Lost Coin: Appointed Times of Prayer.
• The Piety of Prayer.
• The Historic Parts of Prayer.
• A Modern Day Psalm.
• Journal with David.
• Dress in the Armor.
• Divine Reading.
• Music of the ages from chants to gospel.
• Corporate prayers based upon daily disciplined prayer times that can be traced through
• e centuries from Abraham to the time of Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church Fathers.

The speaker is Bonnie H. Shannonhouse, founder and president of Tapestry Inc.

International, and author of the book, “The Lost Coin: Hours of the Cross.” Shannonhouse presented the first Tapestry Day of Prayer in 1997 at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., with hundreds of women from across America in attendance. These days of prayer were taught in churches and cathedrals around the country and abroad for over 10 years. She then took a break from her ministry to care for her family. Now, she is called to restart her ministry at All Saints Anglican Church in Saluda.

Bring a Bible, a new journal, and an open heart!

Send registration information to Father Jeff Johnson, All Saints Anglican Church, P.O. Box 1451, Saluda, VA 23149.

For information, email frjeffjohnson@gmail.com.

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“Come to the Big Top,” the 2022 community Bible school at Zoar Baptist Church, is coming up. Children are welcome to enroll in “Come to the Big Top,” which will be offered 5:30-8 p.m. Monday-Friday, Aug. 1-5 at Zoar, which is at 17097 General Puller Highway in Deltaville. Dinner will be provided each evening.

Your child, a neighbor’s child, your niece, nephew or grandchild are all welcome to enroll. Lots of energy is going into this year’s study for the children of Deltaville. Children’s lives can be enriched by studying God’s Word. God has a plan for His Word in the life of your child.

“So will My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it will not return to Me void (useless, without result), without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it,” reads the Bible’s Isaiah 55:11.

For information, call 804-836-2838.

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Make-A-Way and Deliverance Full Gospel Baptist Church at 100 Flats Road in Urbanna will celebrate its homecoming on Sunday, July 10 with an all-day service. Dr. Prophet Edna Ransom will preach the morning message at 11 a.m. The afternoon service will start promptly at 3 p.m. with Pastor Johnny Wallace from Zion Baptist Church in Mathews with his choir and church family. All are invited to attend.

A revival is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, July 12-15. Featured speakers include, Tuesday, the Rev. Randolph Scott, Union Shiloh Baptist Church, Church View; Wednesday, Dr. Teresa Sutherlin, Overseer Lebanon Baptist Church, Saluda; Thursday, Elder Faith Brooks, Faith Unity Ministries, Lancaster; and Friday, Bishop Carey Brown, Deeper Life Ministries, Hampton.

For information, email truestar89@earthlink.net.

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The Middlesex Kiwanis Club Prayer Breakfast is set for 8 a.m. Thursday, July 14, at Virginia Street Cafe at 201 Virginia St. in Urbanna.

The cost to attend is a $16 love offering.

The speaker will be the Rev. Aaron Wells, pastor of Pure Life Church in Middlesex County.

Rev. Wells and his wife, Bonnie Wells, are church planting missionaries pastoring with the Free Methodist Church. Their family moved to Middlesex three years ago after serving six years in Central America as missionaries.

For reservations and information, email Ed Fisher at aandedfisher@gmail.com…