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Children and adults of all ages celebrated Christmas this year at the Vineyard Christmas program on Sunday morning December 21. From an original song written by Carol Bielby and sung by her Granddaughter Hosanna Bielby, to a skit by Tim Kreuz, Derek Thorp and Garrie Atkins, to songs by the Vineyard youth, an instrumental quartet, and a variety of other wonderful acts, Christ was portrayed throughout the service. A short sermon and notes by David Bielby are available through this website also.

Next week Chris Williamson will be speaking on Joseph in Genesis and how his story points to Christ. It will be rich. At the same time, many youth are going with the Bielby’s to Onething in Kansas City. Youth ages 6th grade through college can still sign up by contacting David Bielby early this week.

Merry Christmas from everyone at the Vineyard!

Today at the Vineyard 19 households were blessed with frozen turkeys (donated by McLean County Sportsmen Club), a variety of canned vegetables, potatoes, gravy and all the fixings for a traditional American style Thanksgiving meal! You should have seen the delight on face after face as people commented about how excited they were to have a real turkey dinner. Volunteers donated several hours of their time, food collected from many members of the Vineyard, and the hard work of the Vineyard Helping Hands workers all combined to make this outreach a great success!

This week we started a 3 month in depth look at ‘Revelations of Christ in Genesis’. This sermon series brings out crucial concepts that point directly to Jesus Christ from the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis. The teachings are solidly biblical, in the faithful path cut by the apostles and their teachings drawn from Genesis in the New Testament.  So not only does this sermon series model accurate interpretation methods of the Old Testament, but it also brings in powerful applications to change your life that flow directly from these solid interpretations.  For example, Moses wrote that God spoke ‘Let there be light’…and John cites this in John 1 where he says that the Word was the light of the world.  Paul then links Genesis 1 with the transformation of a Christians heart by the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God as seen in the face of Christ.  (See the sermon series notes on Genesis 1 at www.otgenesis.blogspot.com for a fuller explanation of this). Everyone is challenged to read Genesis four times during the next three months.

At the Vineyard Church we believe that God inspired the entire Bible. And we believe that from the beginning of time He planned to send Jesus Christ, His Eternal Son, into the world as God clothed in human flesh. Since he planned this from the beginning, and since He inspired the Bible, it’s not a surprise at all to see foreshadowing of Christ all through Genesis. Still, it’s a particularly thrilling study to examine the specific foreshadowings of Jesus in Genesis.  So we invite you to come as you are, experience the love of Jesus among us, and enter into this rich study we titled ‘Revelations of Christ in Genesis’.  We meet every Sunday morning at 10:30 A.M.

Sunday October 5 shortly after our regular worship service we will host a ‘Welcome To The Vineyard Lunch’ with great food, fellowship, and a bit about the history of our church, our pastor and our future direction.  If you are new to the Vineyard, come join us!  There is no charge and childcare will be provided.