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!

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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)

WENT TO THE ATLANTIC SIDE OF FLORIDA!

Coletta (my wife) and I just got back this Tuesday from a week at Florida. We were at Ormond Beach, just north of Daytona Beach, on the Atlantic side. Very relaxing and refreshing. Here I am getting my picture taken by Coletta with the Atlantic Ocean behind me. No tar balls. It was hot and humid, but very nice. I thank the Lord for a safe flight down and back. Below is a picture of my wife and me on our 34th anniversary.


We sure will be thinking about this trip for a long time. After flying down and back from Dayton to Daytona, my arms sure are tired.

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

THE LAST CHURCH BUILDING LAP, 2010

This is the front of our school that we bought that we are converting into a church building. This coming December will be our second year in our new building. Our church has capable men and women who have worked tirelessly day and night to provide materials and labor to finish the job. Many sacrifices have been made by God's people to get this project completed. This summer, we are on our last lap striving to complete the old gym to make it our future main auditorium.

Please pray with us that God will miraculously provide the needed funds to complete this task. Our Building Dedication will be Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 at 2 pm. Our speaker is Dr. Bob Jones, III, Chancellor of Bob Jones University.

This is Jim C. Burns, Sr. Pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church of Van Wert,OH and
that's something to think about.

BLUEWATER SUCCESS!

Last Tuesday was history for the Liberty Baptist Church men of Van Wert, Ohio. To my knowledge, this was "a first" in the 28 years of our church's existence. With just one week's notice, we invited our church men by Emails, a church announcement, and a few phone calls to drop everything and go to a campground to spend a week day fishing, eating, sitting around the campfire, and fellowshipping.


12 men journeyed out to Grover Hill, Ohio to Bluewater Campground during the day, with an additional four men coming in the evening to make our total attendance 16. Travis Kittle and I were burdened to try and encourage the men of our church who where laid off, and also invite men who could take a day off work or come after their work day for some Christian "R & R." A couple of the guys actually got out at our camper in time to throw some sausage on the open fire for breakfast. The other men enjoyed lunch and supper again, cooked over an open fire.


A lot of the guys fished all day, a few played mini-golf, and my main fun was just hanging out with "the church guys," keeping some fresh coffee on all day and drinking plenty of coffee myself! This was great healing for our souls, and I believe a great victory for the Lord and the Liberty men to help draw us closer to the Lord and more united as the "Men of Liberty."

Thanks to all of you who helped last Tuesday be a one day camp success.

I'm Pastor Jim Burns and that's something to think about!
Email: jimmycburns@aol.com