DR. BOB JONES, III COMING TO OUR CHURCH!

Dr. Bob Jones, III, Chancellor and former President of Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC will be the featured speaker at the Building Dedication of the Liberty Baptist Church, 501 E. Third Street in Van Wert. The Dedication Service will be Saturday, September 18th at 2:00 pm in the church’s new auditorium. An open house and reception will begin at 3:30 pm.

Dr. Bob Jones, III and his wife, Beneth will also be speaking at Liberty Baptist Sunday morning, Sept. 19th. At 9:30 am, Mrs. Jones will teach a Bible lesson to the teen girls and adult women in the Youth Department, and Dr. Jones will address the teen boys and adult men in the church’s new auditorium. Dr. Jones’ final message of the day will be during the Sunday Morning worship service at 10:45 am. Liberty Baptist Church is now located at the former Horace Mann School.

You are all invited to come join us for this very special week end!

Jim C. Burns, Pastor - Email: jimmycburns@aol.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON IN CHINA!

(My youngest son, Aaron Burns with me in Hong Kong in December, 2009).

Our son, Aaron has served in China now for six years. August 24 was his 31st birthday. He was able to spend the week end with some friends in Hong Kong and visit Hong Kong Disney. Our hopes are that Aaron can fly home for a brief visit next January. It has been two years since he has been back in the U. S.
We love you and miss you Aaron! Happy Birthday!

MILEY THE BURNS' GIRL TURNED THREE!

Here's Miley Burns the Birthday girl! We met up with her parents and Miley's other grandparents who came in from Kansas for her birthday party at Yellow Springs, OH. We went to Young's Jersey Dairy. It's quite the place and a great place for a party.

Happy Birthday Granddaughter Miley! Papa Burns loves you!

CHURCH PARKING LOT LIKE NEW!

Liberty Baptist Church of Van Wert, Ohio voted on this Sunday night, ordered it Monday, and it was started and finished in six hours on Tuesday! Summer Sealers wanted to do our double sealing and re-striping on Monday, but could not due to a ladies volley ball game our church had on Monday evening. Our parking lot looks like new with twice as many handicap spaces and two new visitor's spaces. This Sunday will be better thanks to Summer Sealers. What a blessing also to know how sharp this will look for our Building Dedication Service on Saturday, Sept. 18!


(Pictured above, Church Member, Larry Nighswander)
Thank you Steve and Ben Laudick and crew for an A+ job!

I'm Jim C. Burns and this is something to think about! Email: jimmycburns@aol.com

COLUMBUS ZOO, ME AND MILEY, MAY, 2010

This is me and my only grandchild, Miley Burns at the Columbus, Ohio Zoo in May of this year. We spent a day there and it was a lot of fun. There's an elephant behind us trying to hide behind a tree. My wife, Coletta snapped this picture.

This is something to think about!

Email: jimmycburns@aol.com

SAILING INTO VICTORY HARBOR!

(Pictured above: me at St. Augustine, Florida on Father's Day, 2010)
Our church only has ten weeks to complete our new auditorium in time for our Building Dedication on Sept. 18th. Please pray for us as we sail into Victory Harbor by our church volunteers enduring unto the end of this 3 year project!


(Pictured above: Coletta Burns in front of the Freedom Boat, June 20, 2010)

This is something to think about!

Email: jimmycburns@aol.com

WE HAVE AIR!

(Pictured: Mike Ramser)

Thanks to Mike Ramser, Fred Heimann, Steve Mengerink, and Larry Nighswander our four new auditorium air conditioners are up and running!

As of last Saturday, the former Horace Mann School Gym which was built in 1953 has air conditioning for the very first time! This is the new Liberty Baptist Church auditorium, and this summer, it is all coming together! Today, all 30 of the ceiling light bulbs were installed and the pulpit platform is being built. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the tireless volunteer workers and to all of you who have given sacrificially to see this project through. I really believe we will be worshipping in this beautifully remodeled room by the first Sunday of September,2010.


(Pictured: Steve Mengerink, Project Manager)

Stop by and take a look! It's not only exciting, it's "something to think about!"

(Pictured: Larry Nighswander, and Fred Heimann, Building Supervisor)

Email: jimmycburns@aol.com

PS. Another big thanks goes out to Mark and Chris Bayus of M & M Sound from Ohio City for running the wires and hooking up the electricity for our new lights.
(Pictured: Mike Ramser outside of auditorium)