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Needs for the month of November:
Baby Food/Toiletries
Look for the bin in the Worship Center lobby to drop off your donations.
Need for the Month: $56,000.00
Need for the Week: $13,000.00
Giving this Week: $15,622.00
October Total: $49,344.00
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VKids / VYouth Food Pantry Donations
Help us stock the VCA Food Pantry during Compassion Month! VKids is collecting baby food with a goal of 500 items, and VYouth is collecting toiletries with a goal of 400. Bring your donations and
Reading Glasses for the DR
A team from VCA will join in an exploratory mission trip to the Dominican Republic in early November. We would like to take an assortment of reading glasses to be given away at one of
A New Family and a New HVAC Unit
God’s Love for the Whole Person
Luke 4:14-21
VCA Mission Statement – “Love Jesus and Do His Ministry Everywhere!”
Jesus has called us to care for the poor – both for their sake and for ours!
Jesus’ mission statement is the foundational template for how the Holy Spirit desires to operate in and through the Church today.
Care for the poor is a biblical expression of the Kingdom of God and an essential practice in our spiritual formation as Jesus followers.
Jesus’ ministry to the poor was not a secondary concern. It was central to how God’s Kingdom was inaugurated here on earth.
Poverty is a byproduct of the kingdom of darkness.
Apart from God’s gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, we are all poor and powerless to do anything about our spiritual condition.
God’s gift of salvation is comprehensive, covering every area of our brokenness and pain with His healing love and restoring power.
THE BROKENHEARTED:
psychological trauma, grief, and emotional wounds
THE BLIND:
physical healing
THE BRUISED AND OPPRESSED:
spiritual strongholds, demonic oppression, and bondages that come from a fallen world
With “the year of the Lord’s favor,” Jesus is announcing that in him God’s rescue operation for the world has officially arrived.
God’s grace and mercy are for everyone – including those we consider unworthy or undeserving.
Jesus emphasized that his first coming was focused on salvation and mercy, but his second coming would come with God’s final judgment.
Jesus’ ministry to the poor was not a secondary concern. It was central to how God’s Kingdom was inaugurated here on earth.
Good works are not a means to earn our salvation. They are evidence that God’s new creation has come into our world through Jesus.
Jesus identified himself as Messiah detailing his specific ministry aims. Can we truly be Jesus’ Church if we’re not doing these same things?
Isaiah 61
Deuteronomy 15:11