Monday Ministry Highlights: Vision Night

On Sunday night, January 1st, we had Vision Night at People's Baptist Church. Our pastor (who also happens to be my husband!) presented his vision for our church this year. I knew of a couple of things he had planned, due to proof-reading the calendar, but I didn't know about everything. By the end of the evening, I was pretty excited about this year too!

We have two special meetings planned: a Family Conference in February and the 20th anniversary of our church in September. We also have Vacation Bible School and Family Camp this summer, as well as our teens planning to attend the youth conference at North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California, in June. Our ladies are going to a ladies' retreat in Vancouver in April, as well as having our annual Mother/Daughter Tea and Christmas Fellowship. We have some activities planned for our homeschool families and senior saints (whom my husband dubbed Just Older Youth - JOY). We'll continue to have quarterly SNAC activities, and add PBCKidz, children in grades 1-6. We'll have them into our home and play some games and such; just simple things to keep the teens and children close to their pastor.

We saw 15 souls saved last year, many of those being children in our bus ministry. By the way, we moved our bus ministry to Wednesday nights in 2011. We began the year running about 20 on the bus, and now we have an average of 50 each week.

Our theme for the year is Walking By Faith. We're looking forward to our faith growing, but that also means we may have some trials of our faith. In those trials, though, we know the Lord will be in the midst of them and will use them for our growth. Whatever the year brings, my husband is leading us to commit ourselves to the Lord and trust His heart for us.

Susan Hutchens - ByGrace
Missionary/Pastor's Wife
Kelowna, BC, Canada