Adoption Update

07.02.09

    Over the past few weeks, God has encouraged us by opening up ministry opportunities that none of the three churches would likely have experienced alone...

    As with most new things, our adoption trials that are underway with Grace Bible Church of Aurora and the First Baptist Church of Shabbona have brought both challenges and joys. Over the past few weeks, God has encouraged us by opening up ministry opportunities that none of the three churches would likely have experienced alone. One of these opportunities is the development of a preaching team, which we’ve asked Tim Badal to launch and lead. This team includes the teaching pastors from GBC and FBC, and we expect that all three guys will benefit from the unique strengths of each member of the team – the sum being much greater than the individual parts.

    teachingteam - VBC Teaching Team
    Teaching Team: Tim Badal, Travis Fleming & Joel Badal

    For the next 10 weeks, the Sunday sermons at VBC will focus on the life of Jonah. The Sunday sermons at GBC will also focus on the life of Jonah. And . . . surprise, surprise . . . so will the sermons at FBC. Every Tuesday, the preachers from each church are getting together to discuss the text for the coming Sunday. They each come prepared fugitive_250 - The Fugative: A study of the...with their own study of the text, and together, under Tim’s leadership, they develop the general direction and approach. While the three men all flesh out their sermons individually, they start with the common framework that they develop together.

    While this may be an uncommon approach, we believe this model has great potential. We believe it will be a unifying factor for our churches, that it will strengthen the preaching ministry at all locations, that it will provide a new level of flexibility, and that the synergies created will create new efficiencies and even new mentoring opportunities.

    We welcome your feedback and are eager to see how God continues to unfold His ministry through us.