Summer Bible Study 2012

The survey results are in, and the survey says!...(allusion to classic game show, Family Feud): Thursday night is the night that works best for the most people.

So we'll be meeting at 7:15pm at the campus house every Thursday night, at least for the first summer session (through the end of June).

Please don't forget to invite your friends. Don't underestimate this opportunity. Many students are more open to a Bible study during the summer than they are during the school year, because their schedule may be a little less busy during the summer, or maybe the campus ministry they are normally a part of is not meeting during the summer. It would be great if we could help provide them with some spiritual support for the summer. And even some non-Christians will be more open to a Bible study, because maybe all their usual friends are out of town, and maybe they have always been open to spiritual things, but they have just always been too preoccupied with their usual activities to explore "the church thing". This could be the summer they finally check it out and it could be the summer that changes the course of their whole life and makes an eternal difference! What do you have to lose inviting them? A whole lot less than they have to lose by you not inviting them. You never know. Every once in a while they say, "yes". So pray about it, and then just give it a shot. Give it a chance. Take a risk for God, and for your friend.

See you this coming Thursday, May 24, if not sooner.

Thanks.
Steve

Congratulations Class of 2012!

Linda, Ross, Katherine, Charissa, and Rebecca
celebrate their graduation at CCVT's campus house. 

Congratulations Class of 2012! We are thankful for the time God gave us to spend with you here in Christ's Church at VT and the way he used that time to help us grow through you, and you to grow through us.

Kristen, I'm sorry you missed out on being in this picture due to the function your particular college had right after the university wide commencement, but I'm glad you are still going to be around while you work toward your PhD here at VT. Katherine, I'm really glad you are sticking around, too, to get your master's degree.

Ross, Linda, Charissa, and Rebecca, as you head out into the "real world" may God bless you, and lead you to a solid, Bible believing church where you can grow in the knowledge and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and throw yourself wholeheartedly into serving him alongside your brothers and sisters in Christ there. May you all live such lives that God will say to you on the last day, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Come and share your master's happiness."

God speed, CCVT class of 2012!

Steve

Reading Day Dinner at the Homeplace

Hey everybody,
Here's an invitation to our last event of the semester from Joe, with a little technical help on the aesthetics from Channing. Read on so you don't miss out.






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A Very Special Oasis This Week

You might want to make an extra effort to come to Oasis this week. For one thing, it will be our last Oasis until this fall. We do not meet during exams. (Although we are going to have a Summer Bible Study, it won't be Oasis.)

But more than that, we are going to have a special time in the service for our graduates who are not only graduating but also moving away from us. At CCVT we have a long standing tradition of sending off our graduates at our last Oasis of the semester by thanking them for some of the many ways they have blessed us, hearing some advice they share with us based on their years of experience at VT and CCVT, presenting them with a gift from CCVT, and most importantly, praying God's blessing on them as they enter the next phase of their lives. Many of you will remember doing this for Jodi just this past December, or for others at the end of other semesters.

Please join us to send our graduates off with our collective prayers of blessing, and to share in this encouraging time of remembering some of the happy memories we have shared together and thanking God for the way he has blessed us through our friends who are graduating and leaving us for the next stage in their lives. Don't miss this special time of thanksgiving and celebration.

Thanks.
Steve