appreciating children workers

Over 100 Children’s Ministry volunteer workers came together last night to be honored at the Children’s Ministry Volunteer Appreciation dinner.  Toy Hine, director of TRBC children’s ministry, and her team did a great job.  The praise team for this ministry is comprised of the children that attend, who are in 4th and 5th grade.  They led the singing for the evening.  The pictures above show them doing just that.  At each of the place settings, children wrote thank you notes to all of the teachers – very inspiring.

At the end of the evening Matt Willmington, pastor of ministry development, thanked all the volunteers for their sacrificial giving each and every week to the work of the Lord.  He also challenged the team of volunteers to keep putting the Lord first in every aspect of their lives along with making sure that their walk with the Lord is right before serving others.  When it is, life is easier.

We are blessed to have such a great team of volunteers in the children’s ministry, yet more can be done if more people were mobilized to be apart of this great ministry.  Children’s ministry is presently in need of a 5th grade teacher.  Click here to get in touch with Toy if that interests you or you would like more information of teaming up to be apart of the childrens ministry.

the point

Thomas Road is helping The Point, a new church plant, in Charlottesville, VA this Saturday August 29, 2009.

What will volunteers from TRBC be helping in:

• Block Party
• Cook-out
• Car Wash
• Canvassing Neighborhoods

What time will team leave TRBC Parking lot:

• 7:30 am. -  Return 5:00pm.  Transportation is provided.

Bring your entire family – ministry opportunities for EVERYONE on Saturday!

For more details or to reserve your spot on the bus, contact Tim Grandstaff – TRBC Outreach Pastor by clicking here or by calling 434.592.4669.

This past week in Outreach

It has been a busy week at Thomas Road. Volunteers have been mobilized to reach out to the community in a variety of ways.

Sunday

60 volunteers put together over 300 bags of school supplies for children who needed them.  Tim Grandstaff, TRBC Outreach Pastor, and others were able to put together extra bags because of the huge outpouring of school supplies.

Wednesday-Thursday

Over 150 bags were distributed to schools in Danville by Scott Randlett and other members from Dan River Church.  Click here to see what happened in Danville.

Due to the  overwhelming response of people giving thousands of school supplies, Tim Grandstaff and others were able to go to other schools in Lynchburg to distribute the supplies.  One teacher wrote the following in an email expressing her gratitude:  “…On behalf of all the teachers here I say thank you!  We were all so thankful to receive all those teaching materials, and also supplies that most of our students will not have.  With these difficult economic times it is hard for a teacher to purchase the supplies his/her students will need.  And it is hard for parents to purchase supplies as well.   You all have been such a wonderful help at this school. You all made our playground look beautiful last year.  And the children love the playground and are thankful for you committing your time and energy on making our school a better place.  It is such an encouragement knowing that we have the community helping us reach these children.  I attend TRBC every Sunday, and it is a great feeling to have such a giving and caring church. The Lord is doing wonderful things!  Thank you all so much again!”

Thursday – Friday

Over 10,000 pairs of shoes have been/are being sorted, inspected, counted and boxed at Gleaning for the World.  Through a partnership with Samaritan’s Feet, Gleaning will be able to impact thousands of people with just this one shipment.  Many TRBC volunteers have been mobilized in such a short time to help with this project.

Thousands of lives have been touched because many from Thomas Road gave of their time and talent for the Lord.  Thank you to all who gave!!!

400 opportunities with VCS

It will be here before we know it – Virginia Christmas Spectacular 2009!  An all new and exciting Broadway style production, with expected attendance of nearly 40,000 people and view via television by hundreds of thousands of others, is already starting to take shape. Untold volunteer hours are needed by people just like you to make this happen. We will be having a VCS Volunteer Kick off Party in Pate Chapel on Saturday, September 12 at 9:00 AM and would love to see you there.

There are over 400 opportunities for you to team up and be apart of with the VCS.

Offstage Opportunities:

• Costuming – Organizing, Cleaning, Assembly & Sewing
• Props  – Acquisition, beginning in September & during Performances
• Decorations – inside and outside, men & women needed
• Men for Stage Prep & Tear Down
• Stage Hands for all performances
• Hospitality – Refreshments & care for volunteers

Onstage Opportunities:

Onstage performers must attend auditions which will be held August 30, 31 and September 1. If you are interested in this area, please sign up for an audition time at the VCS Sign up Table THIS SUNDAY.

If you are interested in any of the offstage opportunities, or have a question about the onstage opportunities, click here to send an email to Kathy Jordan in the TRBC Music Office.

KITS for KIDS

Since July 26 2009, Pastor Jonathan Falwell has been encouraging everyone to donate school supplies for public schools in Danville, Amherst and Bedford.  Many Thomas Road members stepped up to the plate and gave financially to fill bags with crayons, paper, notebooks, pencils, erasers and other necessary school supplies.

Due to this sacrificial giving, Thomas Road is able to give over 300 bags to the community.  Tim Grandstaff, TRBC Outreach pastor, and Scott Randlett, TRBC Dan River campus pastor, were both blown away by the huge outpour of love.

A massive thank you to everyone who gave school supplies, and to the 50-60 volunteers that were mobilized to put them all together for distribution Sunday night!

Team Up in Outreach

This Sunday, August 16, TRBC Main Street will be transformed.  There will 14 local organizations that people can talk with.  The following organizations will be represented:

1.  Interfaith Outreach – Provides assistance to people faced with eviction or utility cut-off, and with food, clothing, and other basic necessities. Applicants are guided toward a path of self sufficiency.
2.  Salvation Army – Provides emergency services, shelter, food, clothing, along with adult, children and youth programs for needy individuals and families.
3.  Daily Bread – Provides a hot lunch to needy people 365 days a year.
4.  Red Cross – Provides emergency services at home and abroad during disasters, home fires, etc. And of course blood drives.
5.  Special Olympics – Provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for all children and adults with mental retardation.
6.  American Cancer Society – Is a volunteer health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer, preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and services.
7.  YWCA – Provides emergency shelter to women and their children who are victims of domestic violence.
8.  Family Alliance – Provides 12 different programs to strengthen and promote healthy families.
9.  Meals on Wheels – Provides one hot nutritious meal five days of the week – including holidays to indivduals who are mentally and or physically handicapped or convalescent and unable to prepare meals for themselves and have no one who will cook for them.
10.  The Gateway – Provides temporary housing, counseling and job placement for men who are try to re-enter society after struggling with drugs and alcohol.
11.  Rebuilding Together – Provides home repairs for low-income families, veterans, widow and widowers who can’t afford home repairs or have no family to help them with their needs. There goal is to keep people safe, warm and dry.
12.  Children’s Miracle Network – Provides critical equipment and services for neonatal and pediatric units of Virginia Baptist, Lynchburg, and Carilion Community Hospital, Roanoke.
13.  Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center – Provides free pregnancy test, maternity clothes, baby clothes, infant items, counseling, support groups, adoption plans and more.
14.  Bedford Pregnancy Center – Provides same services as the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center for Bedford City and County.

These organizations will be set-up only during the morning on Main Street.  Come early, get a cup of coffee, and find out how you, or your family, even your ABC can Team Up in YOUR community.

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