Church News
Youth Win at Nationals!
(Charleston WV) Hardin Valley Free Will Baptist youth won a FIRST place, a SECOND place, and a THIRD place inthe Youth Competetion
at the Free Will Baptist National Convention!
Brandon
Presley is Hardin Valley's first national winner with his piano playing. Way to go Brandon; we are proud of you!
Puppets-a-Prasin' did a great job bringing home a second place
medal. Congratulations!
Rachel Rose
and Bethany Shope fought hard through several rounds, coming in third. We are proud of your effort and dedication.
We are proud of all our participants regardless of whether you won
or not. We can be grateful to those our Youth Director, Jerome Grant and all the adults who worked endlessly for nearly
a year with the youth. Without them, we would not have a successful youth program. Keep up the good work!
VBS a Success!
The 2008 version of Hardin
Valley VBS is history. Almost everyone in the entire church was involved in VBS. Several children from the neighborhood
also attended. The 2008 stats are as follows:
9 - SAVED
11 - REDEDICATED
76 - AVERAGE
ATTENDANCE
84 - TOTAL ENROLLMENT
THANK GOD FOR HIS BLESSINGS!
Tennessee State CTS Competition Winners
The winners
from our church who participated in the state competition May 2-3 are:
Puppet
Team – Puppets-a-Praisin’
Bethany
Jessica
Juan
Rachel
Ruth
Sarah P.
Bible
Millionaire
Brandon
Dakota
Lucas
Selena
Piano
Brandon
Bible Memorization
Dakota
Trumpet
Sarah M.
Team Memorization (Exhibition)
Ashlee
McKenzie
Others who placed 2nd or 3rd:
Ashlee
Bethany
John,
Jr.
Lucas
Rachel
New Members
April - These new members were welcomed
to our church family:
R. J. Daugherty
Angie Daugherty
Josh Daugherty
Jessica Daugherty
Sarah Patterson
March - The Phuntling
family were welcomed to our church family.
Iris Phuntling
Ruth Phuntling
Esther Phuntling
Herman Phuntling
February - The Vance Family were welcomed to our church family.
Kip Vance
Wanda Vance
We are blessed
to have all of you!
Bereavement
April - Ron Mitchell's grandmother
passed away the first of April.
March - Mollie's mother passed away in Detroit around Easter.
February
- Dorothy Waldrop's mother went home to be will the Lord the last of February. Our prayers go out on behalf of Dorothy
and her family at this time of bereavement.