Vision Community Church ENews

VISION SOUNDS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

We’ll be featuring artists from an eclectic blend of musical genres. Tickets are $15 each.  Purchase tickets at Vision or by emailing connect@visiblechurch.org. Shows start at 8 PM, here at Vision Community Church, 103 Newport Bridge Rd, Warwick, NY.

 

This Friday – July 10^th - An Evening of Jazz

A trio of musicians who have shared the stage with some of music’s biggest names.

Jeff Ciampa - Guitar

Nonpareil among superb artists deserving wider recognition, has recorded and toured with some of the most demanding practitioners, including Harry Belafonte, Jon Lucien, Dave Matthews, Mark Egan, Bill Evans, Al MacDowell, Ornette Coleman, Lew Solof, to name a few. His fluid melodic style, steeped in the jazz tradition, continues to inspire fellow musicians and listeners worldwide.

Dave Edwards - Bass

Over the past 25 years, Dave has shared the stage or studio platform with Maynard Ferguson, Roy Hargrove, Bill Cosby, Cab Calloway, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Lionel Hampton, Rufus Reid, Richie Havens, Pete Seger, the Trenton Symphony, Wayne Chamber Orchestra, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Bill Hybels, Rick Warren, and many others.  He appears on over 30 CD’s, and has been heard on WBGO/Jazz 88, Fox Prime Time TV, QVC, TBN, Star99.1, and Good Morning America.   Dave lives in Warwick NY, with his wife Julie, and 5-year-old daughter, Zoe.

Karl Latham - Drums

A NY-based and internationally recognized drummer. He is known for his exceptional ability to dig into a variety of musical styles, playing straight-ahead jazz, avant-garde, funk, rock, Latin, and more. John Lee, bassist and director of the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars, says that "Karl's greatest strength is in his versatility. In this respect, he is something of a phenomenon, having mastered every style of music he has attempted to play."

"Karl Latham is an inventive powerhouse whose influences are many but whose ideas are his own." - Jeff Tamarkin AllAboutmusic.com

Also in July!

Friday – July 17^th 

Musicora

A dynamic chamber ensemble performing a diverse repertoire ranging from Mozart to the tangos of Argentina.  Featuring soprano Marigene Kettler.

Friday – July 24^th 

Jim Lord

A singer-songwriter who crosses a number of genre borders from folk to jazz, while maintaining his own unique soulful sound.

Just 2 More Workcamp Meetings and We're on our Way!

Our trip is less than 3 full weeks away.   I am getting excited about our journey this year and hope you are too.  But first we need to gather together 2 more times in order to prepare as a team on mission.  There will be 2 meeting one for adult leaders only in which we will address your role as an adult leader and the other as a full Workcamp team.  Both these meetings are VERY important and it is vital that you attend.

Adult leaders only meeting will be held  on Tuesday, June 30th   

Full attendee meeting will be held on Monday  July 6th   Both meetings will be at 7:30 at the church office/nursery building.  

Midnight Run a Success

Hi All,

 

Just to let you all know that the June 19 Midnight Run went great with a lot of help from God and many of you and your churches. Everyone that participated deserves a really big hand and a lot of thanks.

 

- We left Warwick United Methodist Church at a little after 9pm with three vehicles absolutely packed with volunteers and donations. It was a tight squeeze but we successfully were able to pack in everything that was donated by everyone. Don Heatley from Vision Community Church sent us off with a great blessing for our safe and charitable journey that evening.

 

- We had three vehicles, four adults, and 12 young adults and youths from our various Youth Programs. We also picked up Billy Preston, our Midnight Run Organization city escort, when we arrived in New York City. Everyone that went along for the run had a great experience from this event and I think that it was also a good experience for all of the people we had the opportunity to meet and help. We were pretty well organized which made the distribution go so much easier for everyone. Finding the right size and type clothing can be a bit of a challenge sometimes though despite our best pre-organizational efforts.

 

- We had seven stops in and around mid-town and lower Manhattan throughout the evening, winding up at our last stop at Penn Station. We were one of a total of six groups participating in a Midnight Run that evening with each group going to different stops throughout the city.

 

- We distributed: 100 meal bags (sandwich, hard boiled egg, banana, baked cookies), 'sweet & creamy' coffee and hot chocolate, 200 bottles of water, over 300 pairs of underwear and 150 pairs of socks, 60 toiletry kits (soap, shampoo, toothbrush & toothpaste, deodorant, shaving cream & razor, and hand lotion), some 50 backpacks, and an assortment of clothing donations (pants, shirts, jackets). Virtually everything that we took in with us got distributed to the folks we met on the street. We did not have to stop at one of the city missions at the end of the evening to drop off anything that was left over because pretty much everything had been given out. Most of our donations held out all the way until the last stop!

 

- We arrived safely home around 3am, a bit tired more or less.

 

A great Thank You should go out to everyone that helped in making this run such a successful and rewarding experience for all that were involved. The combined involvement and participation from everyone, both large and small, helped make this a great charitable effort for a very worthy cause. The folks we met were so very grateful that we had made such an effort to come into the city to help them the best we could.

 

God's Blessings to All,

 

Kevin Walsh 

your Midnight Run Coordinator 

 

 

   

 

           

           

           

 

 

Midnight Run - June 19th

Midnight Run – June 19th

Once again, Vision is joining with other churches in our town to bring clothing and essential supplies to the homeless in NYC. Our congregation will be collecting toothbrushes, shaving razors, travel size toothpaste, shaving cream, and deodorant (not the regular or economy sizes please!), and Backpacks.  Bring them to church with you on Sundays. For more information, or to go on the late night mission contact Kevin Walsh kwalsh55@yahoo.com or Terese Settle tasettle@optimum.net

Vision Community Church Tag Sale - This Saturday!

Well, spring is here and lots of people have gone through their things and donated them to our church.  Come and check out what we've got!  Sale will be on Saturday, May 23rd at our new location at Amity and Newport Bridge Rd from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Workcampers - Two Meetings Coming Up

The first is this Tuesday (the 26th) 7:30 at the Vision Church office.  This is a mandatory meeting for all teens and adult campers.  Parents too, especially if you didn't make the first parents' meeting.  We will begin exploring the theme for the Workcamp and attending to some required logistical matters.  

Our second meeting is Monday, June 8th.  Same time & place.  Keep an eye out for emails about Workcamp - that's usually how we communicate.

Dinner Dance is coming! June 5th

Please join us for our 6th Annual Dinner Dance with a "far out" 60's theme to support and sponsor our local teens Work Camp Mission.  This year teens will put their faith into action by serving those in Pittsburgh, PA.  The mission is always focused on serving the less fortunate.  Service includes assisting at a camp for disabled children,

tutor poor or struggling children, renovate a dilapidated home or spruce up untidy yards, host a sport camp or share stories with elderly persons in assisted living facilities, etc...

The Dinner Dance will include a Silent Auction on Friday, June 5th from 7pm until 11pm.  To be held at "The Quality of Worklife" building at the Mid Orange Correction Facility, 900 Kings Highway. The cost is $25.0 per person.  A "groovy" dinner buffet with "hip" music and a silent auction will be "happening".  Invitations were sent to all members of Vision by "Evite".  If you have not received your invitation please contact Genevieve Avino at senoragen@otponline.net or call 845-987-9741. Please let us know if you have silent auction items or services to donate for this worthy cause. If you did not participate last year you are in for a special treat.

Help Us Move to Our New Facility

Our move to our new building in Amity is fast approaching.   To accomplish our move in the most efficient way we are looking for moving volunteers to assist in loading and unloading a U-Haul on Thursday, April 30th, Friday, May 1^st and/or  Saturday May 2^nd.  If you can help on any or all of these days, please contact Amy Smith

In the weeks that follow ministry leaders will be unpacking, sorting and moving our stuff to it's right spot.  If you are available any days or evenings during the week to help contact Pam Heatley

Vision Stimulus Plan Update

So far we are well on our way to meeting our goal of raising $50,000 to close our budget gap in 2009:

 

Total Received: $20,655

Additional Pledged Amount: $7850

Number of People Contributing or Pledging: 39

 

If you still have not contributed, prayerfully consider filling out a Stimulus Plan card or placing your special offering in the glass jar during worship.

Vision Community Church Tag Sale

Well, spring is here and for many of us it's time to clean out our homes and rid our selves of those things we don't use or need any longer.  How about donating your items to the Vision Community Church Tag Sale.

Sale will be on Saturday, May 23rd at our new location at Amity and Newport Bridge Rd from
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Items may be dropped off at our new building on the following days:
Sunday May 10th - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Saturday May 16th - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Sunday May 17th - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

All items should be undamaged and clean, in good, saleable condition.
Please no junk that we will just have to pay to dispose of.  Volunteers
needed to help sort and mark items ahead of time and also to help on the
day of the sale. Please contact Greg or Therese Settle at 987-7127 or at
tasettle@optimum.net