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vtONE Outdoor Worship Gathering Saturday
Posted by Leadership Team in Announcements, Prayer, Repentance, Themes, Unity, Worship on April 26, 2007
This Saturday, 7-10pm on Henderson Lawn at College Ave & Main St in downtown Blacksburg.
A night where we gather together across ministries and churches as God’s united family in downtown Blacksburg. We’ll have worship and prayer, plus Louie Giglio from the Passion movement will be sharing his heart with us.
Bring your friends (they don’t have to know Jesus) and spread the word. This campus is a broken place and the solution isn’t a ministry or church, the answer is Jesus Christ and his sacrifice for us. The event is just a few days away–help us get the word out!
Since we will be outdoors, please dress for the weather.
If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12
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Prayer at the Burruss Flagpoles, noon – 1pm all week
Posted by Leadership Team in Announcements, Prayer, Themes, Unity, Worship on April 23, 2007
In light of this past week, we feel it is important that we as believers on this campus be united in prayer continuously. Monday through Friday, at 12 noon until about 1pm, at the flagpoles in front of Burruss, we will have some worship and extended group prayer. We invite you to join the Christian body to pray for a different topic each day. Hope to see you there!
There will also be some worship tonight (Monday) night on the Burruss steps at 8:30. Bring instruments!
Update: we will be at the Burruss flagpoles rain or shine. Please wear weather appropriate clothing!
Prayers from Around the World
Posted by Leadership Team in Announcements, Prayer, Prayer room, Themes, Unity on April 18, 2007
People are praying for Virginia Tech from around the world. In the past two days, I’ve talked to people concerned about our campus from more states than I can count . . . Wisconsin, Ohio, Louisiana, Florida to name a few.
We wanted to share some of the prayers and stories that have been flowing into vtONE from around the world. Take a look at these stories, and feel free to add a comment and share your own stories.
A big God thing is starting on our campus, and I can’t help but believe that Satan is using this catastrophic event to try and get us to lose sight of God’s mission for us. Let’s remember who our king is and give Satan a slap in the face by turning this tragedy into a huge opportunity for ministry and a huge testimony of God’s faithfulness in the midst of crisis.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Spring Worship Event: March 31
Posted by Leadership Team in Announcements, Prayer, Repentance, Themes, Unity, Worship on March 2, 2007
This semester’s worship event will be on March 31 in Squires Commonwealth at 7pm. Come for an evening of repentance, prayer, worship, and unity as we proclaim that Jesus is Lord over all parts of our lives.
Come ready to be challenged about how you can have a bigger impact for God’s kingdom on our campus. Bring your friends, your small group, people from your classes. We’re believing that God is going to shake and rock our campus.
Check back here for more information about the event as it comes in.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
Fall Worship Event
Posted by Leadership Team in Announcements, Prayer, Repentance, Themes, Unity, Worship on August 25, 2006
“And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit . . . “
Matthew 13:23
Join us on September 23 in Squires Commonwealth Ballroom for the fall worship event. It’s going to be a powerful evening of getting right before God, praying for our campus, and uniting through worship. Doors open at 7pm.
Grab some food with your friends after the Cincinnati game, and then come over to Squires for an evening about planting seeds, bearing fruit, and perseverance. Now’s a great time to start inviting your friends, people from your ministry, people who live on your hall, and anyone who needs to be encouraged in their faith.
Unity
“Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.” – Romans 14:19-20 (NIV)
Many times where scripture is not clear, Christians legitimately differ on issues of conduct and faith. Going all the way back to the early church in Rome, we find divisions between Jewish and Gentile believers. The Gentile believers rejected the Jewish believers because they felt it necessary to observe these Jewish customs like dietary laws and sacred days. While Paul clarified that these old customs are not necessary, he had a much larger point: we should act in love for the sake of God’s kingdom.
vtONE is a gathering of Christ-followers from all kinds of denominational backgrounds: Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, non-denominational, and so on. We don’t agree about everything, but we can agree that Jesus Christ is the Son of the One True God, that he came to this world, lived a perfect life, was crucified, rose from the dead, and offers us the gift of eternal life. There is nothing in this world more important than the purposes of God! Everything else pales in comparison and will pass away. Let’s put aside anything that separates us in Christ and join together as one body to advance the all-important work of God on our campus. Make every effort today to encourage someone who belongs to another Christian group on campus.